Department of Mathematics & Statistics
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Biographical Sketch: Robert Byerly received his B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and M.A. and PhD in mathematics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He held a visiting position at the Ohio State University before coming to Texas Tech in 1980. Dr. Byerly specialized in mathematical logic and recursion theory, and current interests include structural complexity theory, models of arithmetic, and set-theoretical topology. He works actively in computer-assisted mathematics education. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1979, State University of New York at Buffalo;
Research: Logic, Recursion Theory.
E-mail: robert.byerly@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Lance D. Drager received his B.A. from University of Minnesota in 1972 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1973 and 1978, resp. He came to Texas Tech as an assistant professor in 1983 and, in 1990, he was appointed as an associate professor. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1978, Brandeis University;
Research: Global Analysis, Differential Geometry, Differential Equations, Mathematical Control Theory.
E-mail: lance.drager@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Dr Jerry Dwyer has a BA in mathematical sciences, an MSc in Computer Science and a PHd in applied mathematics, all from University College Cork, Ireland. His dissertation work was in numerical methods for PDE's, with applications in mechanics. Dr Dwyer worked for many years in computaional mechanics related to fracture, composite materials and glaciology. In recent years he has focused his work on issues of math education and developed a range of K-12 outreach projects at the University of Colorado and the University of Tennessee before arriving at Texas Tech as an assistant professor in Fall 2003. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1986, National University of Ireland; Research: Complex Dynamics, Math Education
E-mail: jerry.dwyer@ttu.edu | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Razvan Gelca received his Bachelor's Degree at University of Timisoara and his Masters Degree at University of Bucharest. After working for one year at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, he went for doctoral studies at University of Iowa. After graduation he had a three year postdoc at University of Michigan and then came to Texas Tech University. His mathematical interests are: low dimensional topology, mathematical physics, functional analysis and mathematics competitions. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1997, University of Iowa;
Research: Topology.
E-mail: rgelca@gmail.com, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Petros Hadjicostas received a B.S. and a M.S. from the Department of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, and a M.S. and a Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics of the same university. He has taught at the University of Cyprus and at SUNY College at Brockport. Dr. Hadjicostas came to Texas Tech University in 2001, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His research interests in Statistics are Bayesian Statistics, Logistic Regression, and Simpson's Paradox. In addition, his research interests in Mathematics include (among others) isoperimetric inequalities in hyperbolic geometry, analysis of sorting algorithms, and production theory. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1995, Carnegie Mellon University; Research: Statistics
E-mail: petros.hadjicostas@ttu.edu | ||
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Ram Venkataraman Iyer received a B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, and M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1999. He worked as a Control Systems Design Engineer, during 1990-91 at Larsen and Toubro, India. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow during 1999-2000 at the University of Maryland, College Park and a Visiting Scientist at the Control Center of Excellence, AFRL, Wright-Patterson, AFB, OH during 2000-2001. He joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in Fall 2001.
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Associate Professor Ph.D., 1999, University of Maryland; Research: Control and modeling of electro-magneto-mechanical systems
E-mail: ram.iyer@ttu.edu | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Sophia R.-J. Jang received her Ph.D. in 1990 from Texas Tech University. She joined Texas Tech as an associate professor in Fall of 2008. Before returning to Tech, she was a faculty member at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her main research activities are in mathematical biology and applied mathematics. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D. 1990, Texas Tech University; Research: Mathematical Biology and Applied Mathematics
E-mail: sophia.jang@ttu.edu , | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Lourdes Juan received an undergraduate degree with honors (Titulo de Oro) in Mathematics from the University of Havana in 1991. From 1991-1995 she worked first as a trainee and then as a research resident in the department of Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. In 1995 she was granted the first student visa that the US government gave in Cuba since the 1960's to pursue doctoral studies at the University of Oklahoma. She graduated with a PhD in Mathematics in 2000 under the direction of Professor Andy Magid. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley during 2000-2001, and joined the Math Department of Texas Tech in the Fall of 2001 as an assistant professor. She is currently an associate professor with tenure. Her research interests include the Galois Theory of differential and difference equations, algebraic groups and computer algebra. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 2000, University of Oklahoma; Research: Algebra
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Biographical Sketch: A native Texan, I attended high school at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science in Denton, TX. I received my BS in Mathematics at Texas Tech and did an MS and Ph.D. at UT Austin, finishing in 2000. I was a Dickson Instructor in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Chicago from 2000-2002, then an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at The University of Chicago from 2002-2006. We returned to Texas to become an Associate Professor in Mathematics and Statistics in 2006. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 2000, University of Texas at Austin;
Research: Theory and algorithms for finite element methods, Code generation and automated software for numerical PDE
E-mail: robert.c.kirby@ttu.edu | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Arne Ledet graduated from University of Copenhagen (Denmark) in 1992, and obtained his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1996. His subsequent postdoctoral employment included stays at Queen's University (Canada), MSRI (USA), Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan), and University of Waterloo (Canada), before he came to Texas Tech in 2002 as Assistant Professor. His graduate and postgraduate work was in Galois theoretical embedding problems. Currently, his research is concerned with the related problem of constructing generic polynomials for Galois extensions. He is the co-author of a book on this subject, "Generic Polynomials" (with C. U. Jensen and N. Yui), published in 2002. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1996, University of Copenhagen; Research: Algebra.
E-mail: arne.ledet@ttu.edu | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Jeffrey M. Lee received his B.S. from Brigham Young University in 1982 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from University of California (Los Angeles) in 1984 and 1987, resp. He came to Texas Tech as an assistant professor in 1990 and, in 1996, he was appointed as an associate professor. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1987, University of California, Los Angeles;
Research: Differential Geometry, Geometric Analysis.
E-mail: jeffrey.lee@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Kevin Long's research is in scientific computing: ranging from work on developing efficient mathematical algorithms for large scale simulation and optimization, to the design of advanced software architectures for high-performance simulation, to application of computational simulation to problems in physics, engineering, biology, and national defense. Dr. Long joined Texas Tech in 2007, after nine years in the computational mathematics research department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. Previously, he worked in industry at Beam Technologies, was on the physics faculty at the State University of New York at Brockport, and was a postodoctoral researcher at the University of Massachusetts. His undergraduate degree is in astronomy, from the University of Maryland. His graduate study was at Princeton University, where he received his PhD in theoretical astrophysics in 1991. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1991, Princeton University;
Research: Scientific Computing, Large-Scale Optimization, Computational Physics
E-mail: kevin.long@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Chris Monico received a B.S. in mathematics from Monmouth University, and the degrees of M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. For the academic year 2002 Chris was a postdoctoral researcher at Notre Dame, before coming to Texas Tech in 2003. Dr. Monico has many varied research interests. His dissertation was primarily concerned with cryptology and certain computational algebra problems. He also has worked on implementing the homotopy- continuation method for numerically solving polynomial systems. A common theme through much of his research is applied computer science. Some particular computer topics of interest are computer security via cryptography, and possible defenses against the next generation of polymorphic computer viruses. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 2002, University of Notre Dame; Research: Cryptography
E-mail: c.monico@ttu.edu | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Robert L. Paige is an assistant professor of Statistics. He received a Ph.D. in Statistics and an M.S. and B.S. in Mathematics all from Colorado State University. He joined Texas Tech's Department of Mathematics and Statistics in Fall 2001. His research interests include the interface between artificial neural networks and mainstream statistics, saddlepoint approximations, nonlinear regression models, statistical learning theory, survey sampling and nonparametric statistics. Some of his past research has addressed Bayesian inference in neural networks and lumpability of the stochastic Hopfield model. His present research concerns wavelet neural networks and small sample inference via saddlepoint approximations. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1999, Colorado State University; Research: Neural Networks, Saddlepoint Methods, Statistical Learning Theory.
E-mail: r.paige@ttu.edu | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Carl Seaquist received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. After working in the aerospace industry in Houston for three years he returned to school and received an S.M. in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then worked at Bell Laboratories for ten years, first as a custom VLSI designer, then as a software developer, and finally as manager of a group developing CAD for integrated circuit design. In 1990 he enrolled in graduate school in mathematics at Auburn University where he studied point set topology and received a Ph.D. He has been at Texas Tech University since 1995. His main interests are topology, topological graph theory, and teaching. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1995, Auburn University;
Research: Continuum Theory, Geometric Topology, Topological Dynamics.
E-mail: carl.seaquist@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: James G. Surles received B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from McNeese State University in 1995 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of South Carolina in 1997 and 1999, respectively. Dr. Surles came to Texas Tech University in 1999, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His main research interests are Reliability and the Exponentiated Weibull and Burr type X lifetime models, but he also enjoys working with researchers from around Texas Tech on a variety of research projects. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1999, University of South Carolina;
Research: Reliability and Life Testing, Statistical Computing, Likelihood Methods, Large Sample Theory
E-mail: james.surles@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Magdalena D. Toda came to the Texas Tech University in 2001. Her main research interests are in differential geometry and related integrable systems. Her dissertation and recent works emphasized applications of moving frame methods and Lie group theory to specific surface constructions. Her current research areas include Riemannian spaces, relativistic spaces, and geometric solutions of partial differential equations. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 2000, University of Kansas; Research: Differential Geometry, Geometric Visualization
E-mail: magda.toda@ttu.edu | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Alexandre Trindade earned a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Southampton (U.K.) in 1988. He left Europe shortly thereafter to pursue graduate studies in the U.S., completing an M.A. in Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma in 1992. He worked as a programmer for the IBM Corporation in Dallas (Texas) for two years, before returning to graduate school in 1995. In 2000 he received a Ph.D. in Statistics from Colorado State University. From 2000 to 2007, Dr. Trindade was an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. He joined Texas Tech's Department of Mathematics and Statistics in Fall 2007. His main research interests include time series analysis, statistical problems in finance and econometrics, saddlepoint approximations, quantile regression, and longitudinal data analysis. He is currently being funded by the National Security Agency for a project to improve small sample inference in quadratic estimating equations. He is also involved in collaborative projects with researchers from other disciplines; currently the Departments of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, and the Brain Institute, all at the University of Florida. Dr. Trindade has extensive consulting experience; in 2003-04 he was the primary statistical consultant on a reliability project with The Boeing Company funded by DARPA, and in 2005 was contracted by Encision, Inc., for a reliability study on medical devices. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 2000, Colorado State University;
Research: Statistics.
E-mail: alex.trindade@ttu.edu , | ||
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Biographical Sketch: David Weinberg received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Chicago in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1980. He came to Texas Tech in 1980 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986. He held appointments at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA in 1987, 1988, and 1989, and looks forward to an appointment there in 2004. His original research area was Fourier Analysis, but since the late 1980's his research area has been Real Algebraic Geometry. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1980, University of Wisconsin;
Research: Algebraic Geometry, Harmonic Analysis.
E-mail: david.weinberg@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Brock Williams came to Texas Tech in 1999 after earning a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee and a B.S. from Mississippi State University. His first appointment was as a Visiting Assistant Professor before entering a tenure-track position in 2001. Dr. Williams primary reserach interests are discrete conformal geometry and geometric function theory. In particular, he especially interested in the application of circle packing techniques to Riemann surfaces and quasiconformal maps. For example, his circle packing version of conformal welding has led to advances in computational uniformization of surfaces. Dr. Williams is also a member of an interdisciplinary research group adapting the LearnStar technology to the university setting. This work is supported by an NSF CCLI grant. | |
Associate Professor Ph.D., 1999, University of Tennessee
Research: Discrete Conformal Mapping,
E-mail: brock.williams@ttu.edu, | ||
Texas Tech University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Broadway and Boston, Lubbock, TX 79409-1042
Phone: 806.742.2566 |
