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Biographical Sketch: Dr. Edward Allen received B.S. and M.S. degrees in nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In 1983, he received a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Before coming to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University in 1985, Dr. Allen was employed several years as a nuclear engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and as an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina in Asheville. He has been a professor of mathematics since 1998. Dr. Allen's research interests include numerical analysis and applied mathematics. In particular, he enjoys working with graduate students and colleagues in developing, analyzing, and testing numerical methods for solving stochastic differential equations, developing and analyzing models in mathematical biology, and developing, analyzing, and testing computational methods in neutron transport and mathematical finance. | |
Professor Ph.D., 1983, University of Tennessee, Knoxville;
Research: Numerical Analysis, Applied Mathematics.
E-mail: edward.allen@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Linda J. S. Allen received a B.A. degree in mathematics from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. From 1982 to 1985, she was an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Dr. Allen came to Texas Tech University in 1985 and has been a Professor of Mathematics since 1998. Dr. Allen's research specializations are mathematical biology and mathematical epidemiology. She develops, analyzes, and numerically simulates models that are applicable to a variety of biological systems. In particular, she has developed and analyzed models related to endangered water snakes, plant pathogens, cholla cacti, insect pests, and human and wildlife diseases (measles, chickenpox, chlamydia, hantavirus, and rabies). She is the author of two textbooks on deterministic and stochastic mathematical models in biology: ``An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology'' and ``An Introduction to Deterministic Models in Biology.'' | |
Professor Ph.D. 1981, University of Tennessee, Knoxville;
Research: Mathematical Ecology and Epidemiology.
E-mail: linda.j.allen@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Roger W. Barnard received his B.S. and M.A. from Kent State University in 1966 and 1968 respectively. He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Maryland in 1971. He had a two year NSF Post doctorate at the University of Kentucky from 1971-1973. He came to Texas Tech University as a visiting lecturer in the Fall of 1973. He has held visiting positions for at least a semester at the University of Kentucky, Indiana University and University of California, San Diego. He has been a professor of mathematics and statistics at Texas Tech University since 1986. Dr. Barnard's research interests have been diverse. The primary fields have been in geometric function theory in complex analysis and special function theory of mathematical physics. He has published papers in statistics, control theory, differential equations, real analysis and several complex variables. He has been the complex analysis and special function theory editor for the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics since 1991. | |
Professor Ph.D., 1971, University of Maryland;
Research: Complex Analysis and Special Function Theory.
E-mail: roger.w.barnard@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Harold R. Bennett received his B.S. from Idaho State University in 1963 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 1965 and 1968, resp. He came to Texas Tech as an assistant professor in 1968 and, in 1980, he was appointed as a professor. | |
Professor Ph.D., 1968, Arizona State University;
Research: Topology, Set Theory.
E-mail: harold.bennett@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Bijoy K. Ghosh received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Decision and Control Group of the Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1977, 1979, and 1983, respectively. From 1983 to 2006, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, as a professor, and directed the center for BioCybernetics and Intelligent Systems. Presently he is a Dick and Martha Brooks Endowed Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. Bijoy received the American Automatic Control Council's Donald Eckman Award in 1988 in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of Automatic Control. He received the United Nations Development Program Consultancy in India under the TOKTEN program in 1993, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science invitation fellowship for research in Japan in 1997. In the year 2000, he became a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering for fundamental contributions to System Theory with applications to robust control, vision and multi sensor fusion. Bijoy is a member of the editorial board of The IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He has held visiting academic positions at the Yale University, USA; Universita di Padova, Italy; Institut Mittag-Leffler and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Tokyo Institute of Technology and Osaka University, Japan. He is also a permanent visiting professor of Information Sciences at the Tokyo Denki University, Saitama, Japan. | |
Dick and Martha Brooks Endowed Professor Ph.D., 1983, Harvard University;
Research: Computational Neuroscience, Systems Biology, Sensor Networks, Bio-Mechanics
E-mail: bijoy.ghosh@ttu.edu, ghosh@netra.wustl.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: David S. Gilliam came to Texas Tech University in 1977 and has been a Professor of Mathematics since 1990. During this period he has held visiting positions at Arizona State University, Colorado School of Mines, University of Texas at Dallas, and Washington University in St. Louis. He has been an affiliate professor of Systems Science and Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis since 1989. His research interests have been quite diverse. His dissertation was in an area of abstract functional analysis but he soon turned to problems in the theory of partial differential equations of mathematical physics. In 1986 he began working in distributed parameter systems and the solution of ill-posed inverse problems. His current main research interests are in the control of distributed parameter systems governed by partial differential equations. | |
Professor Ph.D., 1976, University of Utah;
Research: Applied Mathematics, Linear and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Inverse Problems, Distributed Parameter Control.
E-mail: david.gilliam@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Gary A. Harris is Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics from Carson-Newman College, and his graduate degrees in mathematics from the University of Kentucky. His doctoral dissertation and subsequent disciplinary research involved local function theory and geometry on submanifolds of complex Euclidean n-space. Professor Harris began his teaching career at Texas Tech University in the fall of 1977 and currently holds the position Director of Undergraduate Programs in Mathematics and Statistics. In addition to his duties as advisor for the upper division mathematics majors, he approves the mathematics content portions of the certification plans for all students pursuing middle school and secondary mathematics teacher certification through Texas Tech University. In this position he has developed an interest in a wide range of issues involved with undergraduate mathematics education. Dr. Harris' current research interests primarily involve curriculum development and assessment with emphasis the effects of modern mathematics-specific technologies on mathematics education at the undergraduate level, as well as the mathematics preparation of pre-service teachers. | |
Professor Ph.D., 1977, University of Kentucky;
Research: Several Complex Variables.
E-mail: gary.harris@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Akif Ibragimov received his M.S. from Azerbaijan State in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Steklov Inst. Math. (Russia) in 1985. He came to Texas Tech as a professor in 2004. | |
Professor Ph.D., 1976, Moscow State University, Russia; Doctor of Science 1985, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia;
Research: Partial Differential Equations, Porous Media, Mathematical Biology
E-mail: akif.ibraguimov@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Wayne Lewis received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at Texas Tech University since 1977 and Professor of Mathematics since 1989. Dr. Lewis has research interests in continuum theory and in its relations to geometric topology and to topological dynamics. He has extensive results on hereditarily indecomposable continua, especially their structure, characterizations and mapping properties. He has given numerous short courses and workshops related to the subject. | |
Professor Ph.D., 1977, University of Texas at Austin;
Research: Continuum Theory, Geometric Topology, Topological Dynamics.
E-mail: wayne.lewis@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Hossein Mansouri has been a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech since 1999 and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences since 2001. He received a B.S. degree from the Institute of Statistics and Informatics in Iran, a M.S. in Statistics from the Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. Before joining the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University in 1985, he served as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Tulane University and in the Department of Statistics of the University of Kentucky. He has broad research interests in mathematical and applied statistics. In the past he has carried out research in stochastic modeling of epidemics. The main focus of his research in statistics has been developing nonparametric techniques for linear statistical models. These studies involve studying the theoretical properties of these procedures by deriving their exact and asymptotic distributions and comparing these techniques with respect to power and efficiency relative to the classical and other competing techniques. His research also focuses on the development of nonparametric techniques for order- restricted parameters and multiple comparison techniques. | |
Professor Ph.D., 1983, University of Kentucky;
Research: Nonparametric Statistical Inference.
E-mail: hossein.mansouri@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Kent Pearce received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics at Brigham Young University in 1972 and 1975, resp. In 1980, he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from State University of New York at Albany. Both his master's thesis and his doctoral dissertation were written on topics in the area of Geometric Function Theory in complex analysis. Dr. Pearce came to Texas Tech University in 1980 as an assistant professor and was promoted to Professor of Mathematics at Texas Tech in 1997. He has served as the Associate Chair in the department since 1991. Dr. Pearce's research interests have focused on topics in Geometric Function Theory, Numerical Conformal Mapping and applications of computing to topics in Geometric Function Theory. | |
Professor Ph.D., 1980, State University of New York at Albany;
Research: Geometric Function Theory, Numerical Conformal Mapping.
E-mail: kent.pearce@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Lawrence Schovanec has been on the faculty of Texas Tech University since 1982, except for time spent as a visitor at Texas A&M University and as a research fellow at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Edwards AFB. He received the B.S. degree from Phillips University, the M.S. degree from Texas A&M University, and the Ph.D. from Indiana University. He has been a professor of mathematics since 1996 and has served as chair since 1999. His early research dealt mainly with solid mechanics with an emphasis on dynamic fracture of elastic and viscoelastic materials. More recently his work has dealt with control theoretic aspects of biological systems and hybrid parameter models of biomechanical systems. | |
Professor Chair; Ph.D., 1982, Indiana University;
Research: Solid Mechanics, Boundary Value Problems, Differential and Integral Equations.
E-mail: lawrence.schovanec@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Phil Smith received a BA from the University of Virginia (1968) and an MS and Ph. D. (1972) from Purdue University in Mathematics. Phil's first academic appointment was at Texas A&M in 1972. He has been a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Alberta and a Visiting Scientist at the IBM Watson Research Center. He was appointed to full Professor at Old Dominion University before joining Visual Numerics as first Manager of the Numerical Software Department and then Director of Numerical Software. In 1999, Phil joined the TTU Mathematics and Statistics department as a Professor. He was also named Director of the High Performance Computing Center. Dr. Smith's research areas are approximation theory, numerical analysis, optimization, numerical solution to PDEs and SDEs, parallel and grid computing, and virtual reality simulations. Much of his early research was on spline functions. He has worked on projects to model chemical and biological attacks on buildings, surface fitting to data clouds, non-conforming finite elements, parallel quadrature algorithms, and density of subspaces of polynomials. | |
Professor Director of High Performance Computing Center Ph.D., 1972, Purdue University; Research: Approximation Theory, Parallel and Grid Computing, Quadrature, Optimization, Constrained Curve and Surface Fitting, Numerical PDEs and SDEs.
E-mail: philip.smith@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Monty J. Strauss came to Texas Tech in 1971 after earning a Bachelor's degree at Rice and a Ph.D. degree at New York U. Courant Institute. He has held a number of positions in the department, including Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Chair. He served 10 years as Associate Dean and Senior Associate Dean in the Graduate School from 1989 to1999. He is currently Departmental Honors Coordinator and chair of the Scholarship and Awards Committee. He has written a major calculus textbook. Dr. Strauss' early research interests were in partial differential equations and functional analysis. He has also done research in biomathematics and over the years has become involved in mathematical education. | |
Professor Ph.D., 1971, New York University Courant Institute;
Research: Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Modeling.
E-mail: monty.strauss@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: H. Dean Victory received his B.A. from Rice University in 1968 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1970 and 1974, resp. He came to Texas Tech as a lecturer in 1974 and, in 1989, he was appointed as a professor. | |
Professor Ph.D., 1974, Purdue University;
Research: Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics, Kinetic Theory of Gases, Banach Lattices, Positive Operators.
E-mail: harold.victory@ttu.edu, | ||
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Biographical Sketch: Alex Wang received his B.S. and M.S. from Northwest Telecommunication Engineering Inst. (China) in 1982 and 1984, resp. He recieved his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 1989. He came to Texas Tech as an visiting assistant professor in 1989 and, in 2004, he was appointed as a professor. | |
Professor Ph.D., 1989, Arizona State University;
Research: System and Control Theory.
E-mail: alex.wang@ttu.edu, | ||
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