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Department of Mathematics & Statistics


Department Funding Activity Continues to Climb

Current funding for which Mathematics and Statistics faculty serve as principal or co-principal investigators (Total: $3,370,860)

• National Science Foundation ($2,723,713)
Linda Allen, Ed Allen, Development and Analysis of Models for the Spread and Control of Infectious Diseases (66% with Biology), $88,500
Ronald Anderson, George Avalos, James Dunyak, David Gilliam, Lawrence Schovanec, Zhimin Zhang, Scientific Computing Research Environments for the Mathematical Sciences, $49,002
George Avalos, A Mathematical Control Theory for the Partial Differential Equations of Thermal Structures and Structural Acoustic Interactions, $80,946
W. P. Dayawansa, A Class of Robust Stabilization Problems in Nonlinear Control, $176,979
W. P. Dayawansa, Clyde Martin, Lawrence Schovanec, Knowledge Based Action Planning and Control in Engineering and Biology (M&S: 32% of $704,600 with Univ. of Chicago, Washington Univ., St. Louis), $229,002
James Dunyak, The Development of an Integrated System of Instrumentation and Equipment of Measure Atmospheric Boundary Layer Winds (M&S: 20% with Wind Engineering), $212,545
James Dunyak, Machine Learning: A Multidisciplinary Computer Engineering Graduate Program (M&S: 33% with Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), $493,720
Ruth Gornet, POWRE: Spectral Geometry of Nilmanifolds and Kleinien Group, $79,620
Clyde Martin, Cooperative Research Between Texas Tech and the Royal Institute of Technology, $21,000
Clyde Martin, Trajectory Planning and Coordinated Control, $226,410
Lawrence Schovanec, TTU Connectivity to the vBNS (M&S: 20% with Agriculture & Applied Economics, Electrical Engineering, Wind Engineering), $350,000
Lawrence Schovanec, David Gilliam, Gary Harris, Technology Center for Teacher Preparation, $40,000
Marianna Shubov, Spectral Operators Generated by Damped Hyperbolic Equations, $102,000
Marianna Shubov, Interdisciplinary Grants in the Mathematical Sciences, $100,000
Dean Victory, Ed Allen, Zhimin Zhang, Numerical analysis of nonlinear Vlasov kinetic equations, $107,000
Song Yang, Semiparametric Regression for Multivariate Failure Time Data, $90,000
Song Yang, Weighted Empiricals in Regression with Survival Data, $48,000
Zhimin Zhang, Lawrence Schovanec, CBMS Regional Conference for the Mathematical Sciences, $27,000
Zhimin Zhang, Finite Element Superconvergence in Computational Mechanics, $34,000
Zhimin Zhang, US-China Cooperative Research, $35,989
• Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Advanced Research Program ($500,008)
Linda Allen, Occurrence, Frequency, Duration, Size, and Spread of Epidemics in Stochastic Structured Models, $33,618
W. P. Dayawansa, Modeling the Human Muscular Control System, $70,203
Ruth Gornet, The Trace Formula and the Length Spectrum on Nilmanifolds, $34,670
Wayne Lewis, Hereditarily Indecomposable Continua, $30,000
Carl Seaquist, Continuous Decompositions and Homogeneity, $40,862
Marianna Shubov, Spectral Analysis, Control and Stabilization of Dissipative Hyperbolic Systems, $53,162
Victor Shubov, David Gilliam, A Mathematical Analysis of Tornado Dynamics, $74,802
H. D. Victory, Ed Allen, The Numerical Analysis of Stochastic Models in Finances, $75,741
Song Yang, Analysis of Survival and Longitudinal Data, $50,000
Song Yang, Segregation analysis in genetic epidemiology using generalized estimating equations, $36,950

• US Department of Energy: ANRCP
Frits Ruymgaart, Improving Spectroscopy Calibration and Limit Detection, $36,442

• US Department of Energy: INEEL
James Dunyak, Collaborative Learning Agents (M&S: 75% with Electrical Engineering), $204,000

• National Institute of Standards and Technology
James Dunyak, Windstorm Mitigation Initiative II, (M&S: 6% of $1,137,100 with Wind Engineering), $68,226

• National Security Agency ($130,223)
Frits Ruymgaart, Ill-posed Statistical Inference, $54,723
Shan Sun, Minvera Cordero, Adaptive Nonparametric Procedures and Combinatorics, $75,500

• NATO Collaborative Research
W.P. Dayawansa, Simultaneous Stabilization of Nonlinear Control Systems, $5,914

• Plum Foundation
Charles Kellogg, Jo Temple, TexPREP-Lubbock, $2,500

• TexPREP
Jo Anne Temple, Charles Kellogg, TexPREP-NASA, $13,834

• New Century Energies Foundation
Jo Anne Temple, TexPREP-Prefreshman Mathematics, Engineering, and Sciences Program, $15,000

• Lubbock Independent School District
Jo Anne Temple, TexPREP-Communities in Schools, $7,000

In addition to the above support, Minerva Cordero and James Epperson are coordinating the Science to Careers Consortium Project, funded by $43,000 from the Texas Workforce Commission. Clyde Martin is the program manager for the Department of Defense JP8 project, funded in the amount of $598,213 through the Institute for Environmental and Human Health. An Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant awarded to Washington University, St. Louis, provided summer salary and travel support for David Gilliam and Victor Shubov.

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