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Project Faculty

Loek Helminck
loek@math.ncsu.edu



Senior Investigator, Program Director

Aloysius G. Helminck (Loek) received his PhD in 1985 from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. While pursuing his doctorate degree, he was a research fellow at CWI, (Dutch Mathematical Research Center) in Amsterdam. Before joining the faculty at NC State University he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan.

He is now Professor of Mathematics at NC State University and Head of the department. A major focus of his research has been the development of an algebraic and combinatorial generalization of symmetric spaces. These generalized symmetric spaces are of fundamental importance in mathematics, physics and other sciences. Currently, his main emphasis is developing tools of symbolic computation to solve problems from these areas. Good symbolic computation packages will turn theoretical models into real time, useable, information.

He has also done research in a broad range of related mathematical subjects including algebraic groups, representation theory, harmonic analysis, integrable systems, invariant theory, geometry, and quantum computing.

You can find out more about Professor Helminck through his Homepage.

Hien Tran
tran@math.ncsu.edu



Senior Investigator


Hien T. Tran received the B.S. degree in Mathematics from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, in 1980, the M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics in 1986, both from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

From 1986 to 1989 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor with the Center for Control Sciences at Brown University. Since 1989, he has been with the Department of Mathematics and the Center for Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University. He is currently the Associate Head. He served as Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Operations Research. His current areas of research interest are the development of reduced order based methods and nonlinear feedback control methodologies, mathematical modeling and simulations of wireless digital communication systems, and the development of mathematical models for cardiovascular physiology. Over the past several years, he has been involved with the workshops on Industrial Mathematical and Statistical Modeling for Graduate Students.

You can find out more about Professor Tran through his Homepage.

Molly Fenn
mafenn2@ncsu.edu


Senior Counselor

PhD, University of Massachusetts, 2008

You can find out more about Professor Fenn through her Homepage.

Faculty Mentors

H.T. Banks
htbanks@ncsu.edu


PhD, Purdue University, 1967

Control and parameter estimation for delay and partial differential equations; computational methods; statistical and mathematical methods for inverse problems; modeling in biological and physical problems.

Distinguished University Professor; Drexel Professor; SIAM W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize; IEEE Fellow; Institute of Physics Fellow; SIAM Fellow; NCSU Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor; NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Award; NCSU Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award; IEEE-CSS Control Systems Technology Award; Purdue University Distinguished Alumni Award; Elected Chair, SIAM Board of Trustees (4 terms); ASME Best Paper Award; Amer. Chem. Soc Rubber Division Best Paper Award; Professeur Honoraire, Universite Compeigne, France; AFOSR Research Highlight; Turkish's Governor's Medal of Honor Award; President, NCSU Sigma Xi Society; Editorial Board, 14 journals in Applied Math and Biomath.

Ilse Ipsen
ipsen@math.ncsu.edu


PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 1983

Numerical linear algebra, scientific computation, numerical analysis, matrix theory, applications to information retrieval and quantum physics.

You can find out more about Professor Ipsen through her Homepage.

Alun Lloyd
allloyd@math.ncsu.edu


Alun Lloyd received his degrees from Cambridge University (BA Mathematics, 1991) and the University of Oxford (D.Phil. Biological Sciences 1996), held a postdoctoral position at the University of Oxford (1996-1999) and was a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study's Program in Theoretical Biology (1999-2003).

Alun Lloyd is a mathematical biologist, whose main interests involve the dynamics of infectious diseases and spatial models in ecology and epidemiology. He is a Professor in the NCSU Department of Mathematics and is a core faculty member of the University's Biomathematics Graduate Program.

You can find out more about Professor Lloyd through his Homepage.

Sharon Lubkin
lubkin@math.ncsu.edu

AB 1986 Brown University (Mathematics), PhD 1992 Cornell (Applied Mathematics), postdoctoral fellowship 1993-7 U. Washington (Applied Mathematics).

Sharon Lubkin is a mathematical biologist specializing in morphogenesis and continuum mechanics in soft tissues. She has worked in several other areas of biological modeling, including epidemiology, microbial population dynamics, pattern formation, plant behavior, marriage dynamics, and quantifying suburban sprawl.

Dr. Lubkin is a Professor in the NCSU department of Mathematics, is one of the core faculty members of the Biomathematics Program. and is an associate faculty member of the NCSU/UNC department of Biomedical
Engineering. She is active nationally and internationally, and served the Society for Mathematical Biology on the Board of Directors (1998-2002) and currently serves as Publications Chair (2004-).

You can find out more about Professor Lubkin through her Homepage.

Carl Meyer
meyer@math.ncsu.edu

Professor Carl Meyer received a B.A. (1964), University of Northern Colorado, and a M.S (1966) and Ph.D. (1968) from Colorado State University. He was a computational scientist at the Atomic Energy Commission's Rocky Flats Facility, and he has held visiting positions at Stanford University (Computer Science), University of Virginia (Applied Mathematics), and the Boeing Company (Phantom Works). His research interests are numerical linear algebra and Markov Chains.

You can find out more about Professor Meyer's through his Homepage.
Mette Olufsen
msolufse@math.ncsu.edu


Professor Mette Olufsen received a M.S. in mathematics and computer science (1993) and a Ph.D. (1998) all from Roskilde University, Denmark. While pursuing her doctorate degree, she worked for Math-Tech, Copenhagen, as a research scientist on a project that aimed at developing an anesthesia simulator. Later she had a postdoc at the Center for BioDynamics and Department of Mathematics, Boston University. She joined the Mathematics Department at NCSU in the fall of 2001.

Mette Olufsen is a mathematical biologist specializing in modeling of physiological systems. Her main interest is in modeling fluid dynamics of arterial blood flow and understanding cardiovascular blood pressure and blood flow control. Specifically understanding the dynamics involved with standing up too quickly, running, or head up tilt.

You can find out more about Professor Olufsen through her Homepage.
Tao Pang
tpang@ncsu.edu


PhD, Brown University, 2002

Stochastic control, probability, mathematical finance.

You can find out more about Professor Pang through his Homepage.
Jeff Scroggs
scroggs@ncsu.edu


PhD, University of Illinois, 1988

Numerical analysis, financial mathematics, scientific computation, partial differential equations.

You can find out more about Professor Scroggs through his Homepage.

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