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Tin-Yau Tam is chair of the Department of
Mathematics and Statistics and in 2012 was named
the Lloyd and Sandra Nix Endowed Professor.
He joined the Auburn University faculty in 1988
and, since that time, has accumulated numerous
honors and awards including being named SEC
Academic Leadership Development Program
Fellow and Outstanding Graduate Mentor. Tam
teaches graduate and undergraduate courses where
his research interests are in algebraic structures and
classification, problem solving involving analytical
and algebraic techniques, and representati