APPLIED MATHEMATICS DIRECTORY
Spring 1996
Department Of Mathematics
University of Florida
358 Little Hall
PO Box 118105
Gainesville, FL 32611--8105
Phone: 1-352-392-0281
FAX: 1-352-392-8357
Alladi, Krishnaswami
Office: LIT 487
Phone: 392-0281 Ext 256
e-mail: alladi@math.ufl.edu
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Number theorist with knowledge and interest in cryptography,
RSA algorithms, and discrete mathematics.
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Bao, Gang
Office: LIT 460
Phone: 392-0281 Ext 264
e-mail: bao@math.ufl.edu
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Applied mathematician whose research interests include diffractive
optics, nonlinear optics, inverse scattering, partial differential
equations, wave propagation, and optimal design.
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Chen, Yunmei
Office: LIT 458
Phone: 392-0281 Ext 268
e-mail: yun@math.ufl.edu
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Research interests include partial differential equations and their
application to nonlinear evolutions from geometry and physics. The
flow of harmonic maps, nonlinear wave equations, nonlinear heat
equations and nonlinear Schrodinger equations are of particular
interest.
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Edwards, Bruce
Office: LIT 417
Phone: 392-0281 Ext 281
e-mail: be@math.ufl.edu
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Areas of interest include numerical analysis, numerical linear
algebra, and actuarial problems.
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Ehrlich, Paul
Office: LIT 414
Phone: 392-0281 Ext 280
e-mail: ehrlich@math.ufl.edu
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Research interests are in the area of
differential geometry, especially the
area of global space-time geometry. Co-author of one of the standard research
monographs in this area, Global Lorentzian Geometry, Second Revised Edition,
Marcel Dekker Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 202, 1996.
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Glover, Joseph
Office: LIT 358
Phone: 392-0281
e-mail: glover@math.ufl.edu
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Research interests include:
1. Markov processes, potential theory, and martingales and their
applications to asset modeling.
2. Wavelets and their applications to imaging science.
3. Semilinear partial differential equations and their application
to suspension bridge oscillation problems.
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Hager, William
Office: LIT 462
Phone: 392-0281 Ext 244
e-mail: hager@math.ufl.edu
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Research interests include numerical analysis, optimization, and
optimal control with applications to modeling of lightning strikes.
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Hueter, Irene
Office: LIT 410
Phone: 392-0281 Ext 276
e-mail: hueter@math.ufl.edu
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Research interests include probability theory, statistics, dynamical
systems, and fractals.
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Keesling, James
Office: LIT 440
Phone: 392-0281
e-mail: jek@math.ufl.edu
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Research interests include dynamical systems and chaos, fractal
geometry, stochastic modeling, numerical analysis, and queuing
theory. Application of fractal geometry to problems in image
compression. Biomathematical modeling with particular experience
with migration patterns of pests such as the mosquito spodoptera
frigiperda.
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Mair, Bernard
Office: LIT 364
Phone: 392-0281 Ext 237
e-mail: bam@math.ufl.edu
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Research interests include inverse problems, medical imaging,
numerical methods, and wavelets. A particular inverse problem he
has worked on is the modeling of heat flow of rocket plumes. His
work in medical imaging includes the development of new methods
for PET image formation and deblurring the discrete gaussian.
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McCullough, Scott
Office: LIT 490
Phone: 392-0281 Ext 258
e-mail: sam@math.ufl.edu
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Research interests include function theoretic operator theory,
matrix methods, and graph theory. Familiar with application of the
Weiner-Hopf decomposition methods to problems in parallel-computing.
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Pop-Stojanovic, Zoran
Office: LIT 496
Phone: 392-0281 Ext 260
e-mail: zps@math.ufl.edu
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Research interests include stochastic filtering and probabilistic
potential theory.
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Rao, Murali
Office: LIT 494
Phone: 392-0281 Ext 259
e-mail: rao@math.ufl.edu
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Research interests include probability, potential theory, wavelets,
and medical imaging. Applications in medical imaging include a the
development of new methods for PET image formation.
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Ritter, Gerhard
Office: CSE 322
Phone: 392-1226
e-mail: ritter@cis.ufl.edu
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Research interests include computer vision and neural nets. Has
been the leading figure in the development of the image algebra,
which has led to new methods in parallel processing, image
understanding, and feature recognition as well as new methods in
numerical linear algebra, operations research, and neural nets.
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Sigmon, Kermit
Office: LIT 358
Phone: 392-0281
e-mail: sigmon@math.ufl.edu
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Research interests include numerical linear algebra, numerical
analysis, and parallel computing with particular interest in
singular value computation and Jacobi methods.
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Vince, Andrew
Office: LIT 474
Phone: 392-0281 Ext 246
e-mail: vince@math.ufl.edu
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Discrete mathematics is his primary area of research.
Other interests include:
1. network algorithms with application to scheduling and flows,
2. combinatorial optimization and linear programming problems,
3. fractal geometry and self similar phenomena,
4. polytopes and tilings, and
5. quasicrystals and long range aperiodic order.
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Wilson, David
Offices: LIT 464 and MSB 420
Phone: 846-0451 and 392-0281 Ext 253
e-mail: dcw@math.ufl.edu
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Current research interests include medical image analysis,
decomposition methods for parallel computing, and the development
of image deblurring methods. Since 1987 has worked on automatic
identification of the epicardial and endocardial borders of the
heart in 2-D echocardiographic images.
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