Curriculum Vitae
LAWRENCE SCHOVANEC
Professor and Chair Phone:
(806) 742-2566
Department of
Mathematics and Statistics
(806) 742-2580, Ext 225
Texas Tech University E-mail:
schov@math.ttu.edu
Lubbock, TX 79409 Fax:
(806) 742-2566
Ph.D., Indiana University, Mathematics (1982)
M.S., Texas A&M University, Mathematics (1977)
B.S., Phillips University, Mathematics (1975)
Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University (fall 1999-present).
Professor, Texas Tech University (1996-present).
Acting Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University (fall 1998).
Associate Professor, Texas Tech University (1989-1996).
Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University (1982-1989) (on leave, 1983-84,1985-86).
Research Fellow, U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Research Program, Astronautics Laboratory, Edwards AFB, CA (1987).
Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University (1983-1984, 1985-1986).
Biomechanics and physiological control systems.
Solid mechanics with an emphasis on fracture in elastic and viscoelastic media.
Mathematical Association of America
American Mathematical Society
SIAM
American Academy of Mechanics
Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University (fall 1999-present).
Acting Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University (fall 1998).
Member, Hiring Committee (1988-1990, 1991-1993, 1998-1999).
Chair, Hiring Committee (1993-1997).
Chair, Comprehensive Faculty Review Committee (1998).
Member, Awards Committee (1998-1999).
Member, Space Committee (1998-1999).
Member, Computing Committee (1992-1995, 1998-1999).
Elected member, Graduate Programs Committee (1988-1990, 1992-1994, 1997-1998).
Elected member, Executive Committee (1990-1992, 1995-1997).
Departmental Coordinator for United Way Campaign (1988-1990).
Member, Information Technology Committee and Subcommittee on High Performance Computing (2001-2003).
Graduate Program Review Committee (Mechanical Engineering, 2003 (chair); Political Science, 2001).
Member, Bioinformatics Planning Group for Experimental Science Building (2001).
Member, University Departmental Teaching Award Selection Committee (1999-2001).
Member, Arts and Sciences Information Technology Committee (1999).
Member, Building Planning & Design Committee, Experimental Science Building (fall 1998).
Elected member, University Graduate Council, Mathematics and Sciences Representative (1991-1994).
Member, College of Arts and Science Dean's Search Committee (1992).
President elect, Texas Association of Academic Administrators in Mathematical Sciences (2003).
Invited presenter and panel participant: ÒPerceived Challenges for Mathematics Departments for the Next Ten Years.Ó Annual Fall Meeting of the Texas Association of Academics Administrators for Mathematical Sciences, Waco, TX (October 2002).
Member, IEEE Control System Society's Technical Committee on Biosystems and Control.
Member, Selection Committee, Outstanding Texas University Teacher Award, Texas Section of the Mathematical Association of America (2001-2002).
Member, Physical Sciences Panel for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Advanced Research/Technology Program Review Team (1998).
Member, Advisory Board for the 3rd International Conference on Composites Engineering, New Orleans (1996).
National Science Foundation
Swedish Research Council
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Publications
American Control Conference Proceedings
International Journal of Fracture
International Journal of Solids and Structures
Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modeling
Journal of Engineering Fracture Mechanics
Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
Journal of Applied Mechanics
IEEE Journal of Automatic Control
IEEE Control Magazine
Academic Press
Harcourt brace Press
Birkhauser Publications
SIAM Press
Session: ÒNeuromotor Control,Ó 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, AL, co-organizer W.P. Dayawansa (May 2002).
Workshop: ÒMotor Control Problems in the Brain,Ó 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia, co-organizer B. Ghosh (December 2000).
Session: ÒControl of Biological Systems,Ó 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia, co-organizer B. Ghosh (December 2000).
Workshop: ÒBiological approaches to control system problems,Ó 2000 American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, co-organizer B. Ghosh (June 2000).
National Science Foundation CBMS Regional Conference: ÒSuperconvergence in Finite Element Methods,Ó Texas Tech University, co-organizer Z. Zhang (May 2000).
Session: ÒMathematics and Medicine,Ó SIAM National Meeting, Kansas City, MO, co-organizer C. Martin (July 1996).
Session: ÒMathematical Modeling of Physiological Systems,Ó Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems 1996, St. Louis, MO (June 1996).
Session: ÒBioengineering,Ó 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering, New Orleans, LA (1995).
Recipient of President's Excellence in Teaching Award, Texas Tech University (1996).
Charter member, Texas Tech University Teaching Academy.
Recognized as a ÔFavorite ProfessorÕ at the 2003 College of Engineering Annual Honors Convocation.
Invited presentation to the TTU Success Center ÒLast Lecture SeriesÓ (2001).
Served as PI and Co-PI on two NSF Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grants that provided for the establishment of classroom-computer laboratories for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Poster presentation, ÒNSF Instrumentation and Laboratory Grant Projects.Ó MAA Special Session, Joint Mathematics Meeting of AMS-MAA, San Diego, California (January 1997).
Presentation, ÒComputer Algebra Systems and the Internet as Tools for Independent Mathematics Study and Development.Ó Technology in Instruction Roundtable, sponsored by the Texas Tech University Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (1997).
Panel member, Department of Communication Studies, graduate student teaching seminar. Panel discussion on ÔTeaching EffectivenessÕ (October 1996).
Mentor, Clark Scholars Program (1999, 1995).
Poster presentation, ÒLaboratory Approaches in Undergraduate Mathematics.Ó MAA Special session, Joint Mathematics Meeting of AMS-MAA, Cincinnati, Ohio (January 1994).
Co-organizer of a workshop in conjunction with the Teacher Outreach Program, a national leadership program for teachers in science and mathematics, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Program. The workshop introduced high school and college mathematics teachers to instructional methods that incorporate technology into the classroom experience (summer 1994).
1. Samantha Bouquin, M.S.,
In progress.
2. Zachary Kemp, M.S., In
progress.
3. Stephanie Miller, M.S.,
May 2002. Thesis: ÒDynamical
Models of Cranial Kinesis.Ó
4. Doug Meador, M.S.,
August 2000. Thesis: ÒThe Dynamics
and Control of a Planar Articulating Segmental Model.Ó
5. Allen Miller, M.S.,
August 2000. Thesis: ÒVibrations
of Non-homogeneous media and the Prediction of Mechanical Resonance in Human
Tibia.Ó
6. Jaysyn Voshell, M.S.,
August 1999. Thesis: ÒStress
Analysis of the Femur.Ó
7. Pamela Lockwood-Cooke
Ph.D., December 1998 (co-directed with C. Martin). Dissertation: ÒA Dynamic 3D Model of Human Eye Movement.Ó
8. Albert McSpadden, M.S.,
May 1998. Thesis: ÒA Mathematical
Model of Human Saccadic Eye Movement.Ó
9. Yssa DeWoody Ph.D., May
1998 (co-directed with C. Martin).
Dissertation: ÒThe Role of Musculoskeletal Dynamics and Neuromuscular
Control in Stress Development and Remodeling in Bone.Ó
10. Rob Robleto, M.S.,
August 1997. Thesis: ÒAnalysis of
Musculotendon Dynamics of Hill-Based Models.Ó
11. Tamas Jakab, M.S., May
1997. Thesis: ÒA Mathematical
Model of Muscular Control.Ó
12. Rajan Alex Ph.D., May
1994. Thesis: ÒAn Analytical and
Finite Element Analysis of Fracture in Nonhomogeneous Viscoelastic Material.Ó
13. Valissa Kay Smith M.A.,
May 1994. Thesis: ÒA Radial Bound
for the Filled Julia Set.Ó
14. Yancey Nunez, M.S., May
1993. Thesis: ÒProblems of Optimal
Design in Solid Mechanics.Ó
15. Kesheng Yu, M.S., May
1992. Thesis: ÒAnalytic
Representations of Biharmonic Functions with Applications to Mixed Boundary
Value Problems.Ó
16. Donald Ryan, M.S., May
1991. Thesis: ÒIntegral Equations
with Cauchy Type Kernels with Applications in Dislocation Theory.Ó
17. Brian Christiansen,
M.S., May 1991. Thesis: ÒThe
Numerical Solution of a Fredholm Integral Equation with a Weakly Singular
Kernel.Ó
18. Bijan Pashaie, M.S., May
1990. Thesis: ÒWave Propagation in
a Nonhomogeneous Elastic Rod.Ó
19. Doug Kellam, M.A.,
August 1990. Thesis: ÒA Regular
Perturbation Analysis of the Nonlinear Equation of Motion for a Vibrating Rod.Ó
20. Scott Brisendine, M.S.,
May 1988. Thesis: ÒAn Opening Mode
Crack in a Nonhomogeneous Elastic Material.Ó
21.
William
Todd Timmons, M.S., May 1988.
Thesis: ÒAn Analysis of an Antiplane Shear Crack in a Nonhomogeneous
Elastic Medium.Ó
Graduate Advisory Committees ( more than 17 Ph.D., 25 M.S.)
1. Principal Investigator,
ÒTexas Tech University Connectivity to the vBNS,Ó (Co-PIÕs: D. Ethridge, D.
Smith, S. Mitra, H. Temkin).
National Science Foundation.
Amount: $350,000 (TTU matching funds: $435,000) (1999-2002).
2. Co-principal
Investigator: ÒA Dynamic Model of Avian Kinesis,Ó (Co-PIÕs: S. Chatterjee, A.
Barhorst). TTU
Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Seed Grant. Amount: $18,673 (2002).
3. Co-Principal
Investigator, ÒScientific Computing Environments for the Mathematical
Sciences,Ó (PI R. Anderson, Co-PI D. Gilliam). National Science Foundation. Amount: $49,002
(TTU matching funds: $60,000) (1999-2002).
4. Co-Principal
Investigator, ÒCBMS Regional Conference for the Mathematical Sciences,Ó (PI Z.
Zhang). National Science
Foundation. Amount: $27,000
(1999-2000).
5. Principal Investigator,
ÒTechnology Center for Teacher Preparation,Ó (Co-PI's G. Harris, D.
Gilliam). National Science
Foundation. Amount: $40,000 (TTU matching funds: $50,000) (1998-2001).
6. Co-Principal
Investigator, ÒKnowledge Based Action Planning and Control Problems in
Engineering and Biology,Ó (PI: B. Ghosh, Washington University, St. Louis;
Co-PIÕs P. Ulinski, University of Chicago; C. F. Martin, W. Dayawansa, Texas
Tech University). National Science Foundation. Amount: $229,000 (Total award: $704,000, with University of
Chicago, Washington University, St. Louis) (1997-2001).
7. Principal Investigator,
ÒThe Mathematics of Muscular Control and Bone Remodeling.Ó Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board Advanced Research Program.
Amount: $35,550 (1996-1998).
8. Project Director,
ÒMathematical Sciences Computing Research Environments: Computational Issues in
Problems of Biomechanics,Ó (PI C. Martin). National Science Foundation. Amount: $38,672 (1996-1997).
9. Project Director,
ÒHealth Care in Rural West Texas for the Twenty-First Century,Ó (PI C.
Martin). Digital Corporation
Equipment Grant. Amount: $160,000
(1996).
10. Principal Investigator,
ÒComputer Algebra Systems and the Internet as Tools for Independent Mathematics
Study and Development.Ó Teaching,
Learning and Technology Center, Texas Tech University. Amount: $4,503 (summer 1996).
11. Co-principal
Investigator, ÒA Computer Laboratory for Undergraduate Mathematics,Ó (Co-PI D.
Gilliam). National Science
Foundation. Amount: $50,000 (TTU
matching funds: $50,000) (1992-1995).
12. Faculty Investigator
(with student Rajan Alex), ÒOptimal Design of Cementless Stem Implants.Ó Texas Tech University Graduate School
Research Award. Amount: $800
(summer 1993).
13. Co-principal
Investigator, ÒAnalytical and Computational Methods in the Fracture of
Composite and Damaged Materials,Ó (Co-PI Marc Stromberg). Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board Advanced Research Program.
Amount: $80,000 (1989-1991).
14. Co-principal
Investigator, ÒAnalytical and Computational Methods in the Fracture of
Composite and Damaged Materials.Ó
Supplemental support for minority student: Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board Advanced Research Program. Amount: $13,334. (1991-1992).
15. Faculty Investigator
(with student Brian Christiansen), ÒFinite Element Modeling of Boundary Value
Problems Associated with Fracture in Nonhomogeneous Material.Ó Texas Tech
University Graduate School Research Award. Amount: $800 (summer 1992).
16. Faculty Investigator
(with student Bijan Pashie), ÒThe Energy Release Rate for Crack Propagation in
Bonded Composite Material.Ó Texas
Tech University Graduate School Research Award. Amount: $800 (summer 1989).
17. Principal Investigator,
ÒFracture in Solid Propellant: Damage Effects Upon Crack Propagation.Ó Air Force Office of Scientific
Research, Research Initiation Program.
Amount: $22,381 (1988-1989).
18. Principal Investigator,
ÒFracture in Damaged Viscoelastic Media.Ó
State Organized Research Fund Grant, Texas Tech Institute for University
Research. Amount: $2,842.
(1988-1989).
19. Faculty Investigator
(with student Bijan Pashaie), ÒFracture in Damaged Media.Ó Texas Tech University Graduate School
Research Award. Amount: $800
(summer 1988).
20. Principal Investigator,
ÒNumerical Analysis and Graphic Display of Crack Models in Viscoelastic
Solids.Ó State Organized Research
Fund Grant, Texas Tech Institute for University Research. Amount: $1,600 (1987-1988).
21. Research Associate,
ÒInteractive Analysis of Von Karmen Plate Equations,Ó (PI Joseph Minor). Air Force Office of Scientific
Research. Amount: $3,767 (summer
1985).
22. Principal Investigator,
ÒBoundary Value Problems for Nonhomogeneous Elastic Bodies.Ó Arts and Sciences New Faculty Grant,
Texas Tech University. Amount:
$1,500 (1983).
(* Denotes non-refereed)
1. Effects of control strategies on stress development in skeletal structures (with A. Barhorst). Proceedings of 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, AL, 2319-2323 (2002).
2. Modeling and Control of 3D Eye Movement with Musculotendon Dynamics (with A. Polpitiya, B. Ghosh). Proceedings of the 2002 IFAC World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 6pp (2002).
3. Modeling Human Movement Systems: Ocular Dynamics and Skeletal Systems. IEEE Control Magazine, Vol. 21, 70-79 (2001).
4. Approximations of Elliptical Arclength and Related Inequalities (with R. Barnard, K. Pearce). Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 260, 295-306 (2001).
5. Optimal Motor Control Strategies and a Hybrid Approach to Stress Analysis in Skeletal Systems (with A. Barhorst). Proceedings 2001 American Control Conference, Arlington VA, 236-240 (2001).
6. A Forward Dynamic Model of Gait with Application to Stress Analysis of Bone (with Y. Dewoody, C. Martin). Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Vol. 33, 121-143 (2001).
7. A Hybrid Approach to Stress Analysis in Skeletal Systems, (with A. Barhorst). Proceedings of 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia, 271-277 (2000).
8. The Control and Mechanics of Human Movement Systems (with C. Martin). Dynamical Systems, Control, Coding, and Computer Vision: New Trends, Interfaces, and Interplay, ed. G. Picci and D. Gilliam, Birkhauser, 173-202 (1999).
9. An Application of Direct Dynamics to Stress Development in Bone (with Y DeWoody, C. Martin). Proceedings of the Mathematical Theory of Network and Systems-98 Symposium, ed. A. Beghi, et al., 995-998 (1999).
10. A Direct Dynamic Approach to Stress Development in Bone (with Y. DeWoody, C. Martin). Proceedings of 20th International Conference of IEEE Medicine and Biology Society, Hong Kong, 2474-2477 (1999).
11. Ocular Dynamics and Control (with C. Martin). Proceedings of the 1999 IFAC World Congress, Beijing, China, 5pp (1999).
12. A Dynamic 3-d Model of Ocular Motion (with P. Lockwood-Cooke, C. Martin). Proceedings of 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, AR, 406-409 (1999).
13. *Modeling Human Motor Control (with W. P. Dayawansa). The Science Corner: Lubbock Magazine, 42-45 (1999).
14. Muscle Mechanics and Dynamics of Ocular Motion (with C. Martin). Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation, and Control, Vol. 8, No. 2, 233-236 (summary). Complete manuscript (15pp): birkhauser.com/journals/jmsec/download.html (1998).
15. The Energy Release Rate for Antiplane Fracture in Nonlinear and Nonhomogeneous Elastic Material. Developments in Mechanics: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Midwestern Mechanics Conference, Rapid City, SD, Vol. 19, 11.1-11.4 (1998).
16. A Control Model of Eye Movement (with C. Martin). Proceedings of 36th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, 1135-1140 (1997).
17. Dynamical Systems Approach to Target Motion, Perception and Ocular Control (with Bijoy Ghosh, C. Martin, E.P. Loucks). Systems and Control in the Twenty-First Century: Progress in Systems and Control, Birkhauser, ed. C. Byrnes, et al., Boston, Vol. 22, 185-204 (1997).
18. Technology in the Mathematics Preparation of Pre-Service K-12 Teachers at Texas Tech University (with Gary A. Harris). Proceedings of the Ninth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, 222-226 (1997).
19. Fatigue Effects in Models of Muscular Control (with C. Martin). In Computational Neuroscience, ed. James Bower, Academic Press, San Diego, 385-391 (1996).
20. An Antiplane Crack in a Nonhomogeneous Viscoelastic Body. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 36, 223-334 (1996).
21. Energy Release Rate Calculations for Fracture in Nonhomogeneous and Nonlinear Material. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Composites Engineering, New Orleans, LA, 741-744, (1996).
22. Muscular Control and Stress Fractures (with C. Martin). Proceedings of 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering, New Orleans, LA, 178-180 (1995).
23. A Quasi-Statically Propagating Crack in a Nonhomogeneous Viscoelastic Material. Proceedings of 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering, New Orleans, LA, 221-223 (1995).
24. A Numerical Method for Problems of Fracture in a Nonlinear Composite Material (with Marc Stromberg). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Composites Engineering, New Orleans, LA, 659-662 (1995).
25. Fatigue Effects in Muscular Control (with C. F. Martin). In Eighth IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 188-196 (1995).
26. Problems of Optimal Design with Application to Prosthetic Design and Stress Prediction (with C. Nunn, C. Martin). In Eighth IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 278-285 (1995).
27. Quasi-Static Mode III Fracture in a Nonhomogeneous Viscoelastic Body: Erratum (with Joseph M. Herrmann). Acta Mechanica, Vol. 106, No.1-2, 107-109 (1994).
28. Dynamic Steady-State Mode III Fracture in a Nonhomogeneous Viscoelastic Body (with Joseph M. Herrmann). Acta Mechanica, Vol. 106, No.1-2, 41-55 (1994).
29. A Power Series Method for Solving Initial Value Problems Utilizing Computer Algebra Systems (with John T.White). International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Vol. 47, 181-189 (1993).
30. *Wave Propagation in a Nonhomogeneous Rod. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Applied Mathematics, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, 44-59 (1991).
31. Quasi-Static Mode III Fracture in a Nonhomogeneous Viscoelastic Body (with Joseph M. Herrmann). Acta Mechanica, Vol. 85, 235-249 (1990).
32. *Riemann-Hilbert Boundary Value Problems in Fracture Mechanics. Proceedings of 6th Annual Conference on Applied Mathematics, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, 331-350 (1990).
33. An Efficient Algorithm for Generating Implicitly Defined Functions (with Edward Allen, et al.). International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Vol. 31, 137-145 (1990).
34. A mode III Crack Terminating Asymmetrically at a Wedge-shaped Inhomogeneity (with B. Pashaie). Advances in Fracture and Fatigue for the 1990's: Proceedings of the ASME PVP Conference, Honolulu, HI, 213-221 (1989).
35. The Dynamic Energy Release Rate for Crack Propagation in Viscoelastic Media (with Jay R. Walton). Proceedings of the Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 166-170 (1989).
36. Some Aspects of Crack Behavior in a Nonhomogeneous Material (with T. Timmons). Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 33, No. 5, 745-751 (1989).
37. The Dynamic Energy Release Rate for Two Parallel Steadily Propagating Mode III Cracks in a Viscoelastic Body (with Jay R. Walton). International Journal of Fracture, Vol. 41, 133-155 (1989).
38. An Antiplane Shear Crack in a Nonhomogeneous Elastic Material. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 32, No. 1, 21-28 (1989).
39. A Mode III Crack Problem in a Bonded Composite Material. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 31, No. 3, 437-449 (1988).
40. On the Stress Singularity for an Antiplane Shear Crack at the Interface Between Two Bonded Inhomogeneous Elastic Material (with Jay R. Walton). Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 55, No. 1, 234-238 (1988).
41. The Energy Release Rate for a Quasi-Static Mode I Crack in a Nonhomogeneous Linearly Viscoelastic Body (with Jay R. Walton). Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 28, No. 4, 445-454 (1987).
42. *Fracture in Damaged Media: An Inhomogeneous Material Approach. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Technical Report, Air Force Astronautics Laboratory, Edwards AFB, CA (1987).
43. The Quasi-Static Propagation of a Plane Strain Crack in a Power-Law Inhomogeneous Linearly Viscoelastic Body (with Jay R. Walton). Acta Mechanica, Vol. 67, 61-77 (1987).
44. *Book Review: Ray Methods for Waves in Elastic Solids. In Transport Theory and Statistical Physics, Vol. 15, 551-553 (1986).
45. A Griffith Crack Problem for an Inhomogeneous Elastic Material. Acta Mechanica, Vol. 58, 67-80 (1986).
Submitted
46. A model of saccadic eye movement: Effects of nonlinear musculotendon dynamics and muscle mass (with McSpadden et al.) In revision.
47. Calculation of Energy Release Rates and Stress Intensity Factors in Material with Arbitrary Stress Singularities (with M. Stromberg) Submitted.
1. Invited session talk:
ÒDynamics of Avian Kinesis.Ó
Session: ÒPatterns in Biology,Ó Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems
2002,
University of Notre Dame (August 2002).
2. Invited session talk:
ÒEffects of Control Strategies on stress development in skeletal
structures.Ó Session: ÒNeuromotor
Control,Ó 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, AL (May 2002).
3. Invited session talk:
ÒOptimal Motor Control Strategies and a Hybrid Approach to Stress Analysis in
Skeletal Systems.Ó Session:
ÒControl of Human Movement,Ó First SIAM Conference on Life Sciences, Boston, MA (March
2002).
4. Invited session talk:
ÒOptimal Motor Control Strategies and a Hybrid Approach to Stress Analysis in
Skeletal Systems.Ó Session:
ÒNeural and Biomechanical Modeling in the Life Sciences,Ó 2001 American
Control Conference,
Arlington, VA (June 2001).
5. Workshop presentation:
ÒMuscle Dynamics and Control.Ó
Workshop: ÒMotor Control Problems in the Brain,Ó 39th IEEE Conference
on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia (December 2000).
6. Invited session talk: ÒA
Hybrid Approach to Stress Analysis in Skeletal Systems.Ó Session: ÒControl of
Biological Systems,Ó 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia
(December 2000).
7. Poster presentation: ÒA
Hybrid Approach to Stress Analysis in Musculoskeletal Systems.Ó DARPA Teaming Workshop: Exoskeletons
for Human Performance Augmentation, Herndon, VA (2000).
8. Colloquium: ÒHuman
Movement Systems and Optimal Control Strategies.Ó Department of Neuroscience, Washington University, St. Louis
(November 2000).
9. Invited talk: ÒOptimal
Control of Human Movement Systems.Ó
Computation and Control VII, Bozeman, MT (August 2000).
10. Workshop presentation:
ÒControl of Eye and Limb Movements.Ó
Workshop: ÒBiological approaches to control system problems,Ó 2000
American Control Conference Chicago, IL (July 2000).
11. Invited session ÒA
Dynamic 3-d Model of Ocular Motion.Ó
Session: ÒDynamic Problems in Vision and Motor Control,Ó 38th
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, AZ (December 1999).
12. Colloquium: ÒA Forward
Dynamic Model of Gait with Application to Stress Development in Skeletal
Members.Ó Division of Biological
Sciences, University of Chicago (May 1999).
13. Colloquium: ÒThe
Dynamics and Control of Human Movement Systems.Ó Center for Biocybernetics and Intelligent Systems,
Washington University, St. Louis (February 1999).
14. Contributed talk: ÒA
Forward Dynamic Model of Gait with Application to Stress Analysis of
Bone.Ó Texas System Days, Lubbock, Texas
(November 1998).
15. Contributed talk:
ÒMusculature Effects on Stress Distribution in Bone.Ó 1998 Symposium, Center for Applied
Human Biomechanics, Texas Tech University (November 1998).
16. Invited session talk: ÒA
Direct Approach Utilizing Musculoskeletal Dynamics and Neuromuscular Control to
Determine Stress Development in Bone.Ó
Session: ÒBiomechanics and Biomathematics,Ó 35th Annual Technical
Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Pullman, WA (September 1998).
17. Invited session talk:
ÒSome Modeling Issues in Hill Based Systems.Ó Session: ÒBiomechanics and Biomathematics,Ó 35th Annual
Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Pullman, WA (September
1998).
18. Invited talk: ÒA Direct
Dynamics Approach to Human Movement Systems.Ó Computation and Control VI, Bozeman, MT (August
1998).
19. Invited session talk: ÒA
Direct Dynamic Approach to Stress Development in Bone.Ó Session: ÒBiomechanics,Ó Mathematical
Theory of Network and Systems 1998, Padova, Italy (July 1998).
20. Invited session talk:
ÒDynamics of Ocular Motion.Ó
Session: ÒDynamic Vision and Control,Ó Mathematical Theory of Network
and Systems 1998,
Padova, Italy (July 1998).
21. Colloquium: ÒDynamics
and Control.Ó Department of
Mathematics and System Science, Washington University, St Louis (March 1998).
22. Contributed talk:
ÒEffects of Musculoskeletal Dynamics On Stress Development in Bone.Ó Southern Biomedical Conference on
Bioengineering,
San Antonio, TX (January 1998).
23. Invited talk: ÒOcular
Dynamics and Control.Ó Conference
on the Mathematics of Life Sciences, Lubbock, TX (January 1998).
24. Invited session talk: ÒA
Control Model of Eye Movement.Ó
Session: ÒControl, Identification, and Filtering Problems in Vision,Ó 36th
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA (December 1997).
25. Invited session talk:
ÒThe Energy Release Rate for Antiplane Fracture for Nonlinear and
Nonhomogeneous and Material.Ó
Session: ÒFracture,Ó 25th Midwestern Mechanics Conference, Rapid City, SD
(October 1997).
26. Poster presentation:
ÒNSF Instrumentation and Laboratory Grant Projects.Ó MAA special session, Joint Mathematics Meeting of AMS-MAA, San Diego, CA (January
1997).
27. Invited talk: ÒMuscle
Mechanics in the Control of Eye Movement.Ó Computation and Control V, Bozeman, MT (August
1996).
28. Contributed talk:
ÒEnergy Release Rate Calculations for Fracture in Nonhomogeneous and Nonlinear
Material.Ó Third International
Conference on Composites Engineering, New Orleans, LA (July 1996).
29. Invited session talk: ÒA
Control Theoretic Model of Musculoskeletal Injury.Ó Session: ÒMathematical Modeling of Physiological Systems,Ó Mathematical
Theory of Networks and Systems 1996, St. Louis, MO (June 1996).
30. Workshop presentation:
ÒMuscle Models with Application to Physiological Systems.Ó Workshop: ÒControl Problems in Vision,Ó
Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems 1996, St. Louis, MO (June
1996)
31. Contributed talk: ÒA
Numerical Method for Problems of Fracture in a Nonlinear Composite Material.Ó Second International Conference on
Composites Engineering, New Orleans, LA (August 1995).
32. Poster presentation:
ÒFatigue Effects in Muscular Control: The Monosynaptic Reflex.Ó Fourth Annual Computational
Neuroscience Meeting,
Monterey, CA (July 1995).
33. Poster presentation:
ÒFatigue Effects in Muscular Control.Ó
Eighth IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Lubbock, TX (June,
1995).
34. Invited session talk:
ÒControl of Muscular Contraction by the Stretch Reflex.Ó Session: ÒControl Theory and Medicine,Ó
Third SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, St. Louis, MO (May
1995).
35. Invited talk:
ÒBiomechanical Aspects of Stress Fractures.Ó Symposium on Mathematics and Medicine, Texas Tech University
Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX (April 1994).
36. Poster presentation:
ÒLaboratory Approaches in Undergraduate Mathematics.Ó MAA special session, Joint Mathematics Meeting of AMS-MAA, Cincinnati, OH
(January 1994).
37. Colloquium: ÒFracture in
Viscoelastic Media.Ó Department of
Mathematics, University of Texas at Dallas (October 1993).
38. Contributed talk:
ÒDynamic Fracture in a Nonhomogeneous Viscoelastic Body.Ó Second International Conference on
Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Washington D.C. (July 1991).
39. Contributed talk:
ÒDynamic Fracture in a Nonhomogeneous Viscoelastic Body.Ó Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of
Southwestern Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Lubbock, TX (May 1991).
40. Contributed talk: ÒWave
Propagation in a Nonhomogenous Rod.Ó
Seventh Annual Conference on Applied Mathematics, University of Central
Oklahoma, Edmond, OK (April 1991).
41. Contributed talk:
ÒQuasi-Static Mode III Fracture in a Nonhomogeneous Body.Ó 11th U.S. National Congress of
Applied Mechanics,
Tucson, AZ (May 1990).
42. Colloquium: ÒDamage
Models and Damage Effects in Viscoelastic and Elastic Fracture.Ó Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Texas Tech University (April, 1990).
43. Contributed talk:
ÒRiemann-Hilbert Boundary Value Problems in Fracture Mechanics.Ó Sixth Annual Conference on Applied
Mathematics,
University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK (April 1990).
44. Contributed talk: ÒThe
Dynamic Energy Release Rate for Crack Propagation in a Viscoelastic
Media.Ó Pan American Congress
of Applied Mechanics,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (January 1989).
45. Colloquium: ÒFracture in
Damaged Elastic and Viscoelastic Media.Ó
US Air Force Astronautics Laboratory, Edwards AFB, CA (August 1987).
46. Contributed talk:
ÒFracture in Viscoelastic Media.Ó SIAM
Texas-Oklahoma Section Meeting, Austin, TX (April 1987).
47. Colloquium: ÒThe Energy
Release Rate and Viscoelastic Fracture.Ó
Department of Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterrey, CA
(December 1986).