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Project Faculty
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LOEK HELMINCK
loek@math.ncsu.edu

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2005-2006 Senior Investigator, 2005-2006 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. |
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HIEN TRAN
tran@math.ncsu.edu
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2005-2006 - 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. |
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SANDRA PAUR
sopaur@math.ncsu.edu
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Senior Counselor
Sandy Paur received her B.S. (1968) from the University of North Dakota and her Ph.D. (1973) from Indiana University. She is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and has been advising students for over 30 years. Since 1980 she has been the Director of the Math Honors Program at NC State. Students in the Math Honors Program have won many national honors, including 5 Goldwater Scholarships, 11 NSF Fellowships, 2 DoD Fellowships and 2 Gates Fellowships and have gone on to graduate school at Princeton, Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, Cornell and other top-ranked schools.
You can find out more about Professor Paur through her Homepage. |
Faculty Mentors
| PIERRE
GREMAUD
gremaud@math.ncsu.edu
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Professor Gremaud received
his Ph.D. in 1991 from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale
de Lausanne in Switzerland. He joined the Department of
Mathematics at NCSU in 1994, after three years at the
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His research interests
are in numerical methods for Partial Differential Equations
and more specifically in problems related to solid and
fluid mechanics. Professor Gremaud has held several invited
positions and has extensive experience in mentoring students
through, among other things, various NSF sponsored workshops.
You can find out more about Professor Gremaud through
his Homepage. |
| MANSOOR
HAIDER
m_haider@ncsu.edu
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Professor Mansoor Haider received
a B.Math (1991) from the University of Waterloo, Canada
and a Ph.D. (1996) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
He completed a 3-year post-doc at Duke University before
joining the faculty at N.C. State in 1999. He has been
the recipient of an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral
Research Fellowship and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
His research interests lie in mathematical modeling of
articular cartilage mechanics and scientific computing.
You can find out more about Professor Haider through his
Homepage. |
| ERICH
KALTOFEN
kaltofen@math.ncsu.edu
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Erich Kaltofen received both
his M.S. degree in Computer Science in 1979 and his Ph.D.
degree in Computer Science in 1982 from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science
at the University of Toronto and an Assistant, Associate,
and full Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Since 1996 he is a Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina
State University. Kaltofen has held visiting positions
at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley,
California (2000 and 1985), at the University of Grenoble
(2000 and 1999), at Simon Fraser University (1998), and
at the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory in Oregon
(1985). Under his supervision 7 students have completed
their Ph.D.'s. He has supervised 4 REU summer students
and 3 undergraduate honors research projects.
Kaltofen's current interests are in computational algebra
and number theory, design and analysis of sequential and
parallel algorithms, and symbolic computation systems
and languages. Kaltofen was the Chair of ACM's Special
Interest Group on Symbolic & Algebraic Manipulation
1993 - 95. He serves as associate editor on several journals
on symbolic computation. In 2001 and 1992 he was the General
Chair of the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic
Computation, and in 2002 he was elected onto its Steering
Committee, which he now chairs. From 1985 - 87 he held
an IBM Faculty Development Award. From 1990 - 91 he was
an ACM National Lecturer.
Kaltofen has edited 4 books, including the Computer Algebra
Handbook, published over 120 research articles, and has
contributed to the Waterloo Maple system and developed
symbolic computation software in Lisp and C++.
You can find out more about Professor Kaltofen through
his Homepage. |
| IRINA
KOGAN
iakogan@math.ncsu.edu

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Irina Kogan received a diploma
(equivalent of a M.S.) in Applied Mathematics from Moscow
Institute for Petrochemical and Natural Gas Industry in
1993 and a Ph.D in Mathematics from the University of
Minnesota in 2000.
Irina Kogan was a Gibbs Instructor at Yale University
before joining the department of mathematics at NCSU in
2003. She is interested in geometric study of differential
equations, especially symmetry methods, and geometric
methods in image recognition and image processing.
You can find out more about Professor Kogan through her
Homepage. |
| ALUN
LLOYD
allloyd@math.ncsu.edu
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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 an Associate
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
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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 an Associate 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 also affiliated with the Center for Research in
Scientific Computing. She is active nationally and internationally,
and served the Society for Mathematical Biology on the
Board of Directors (1998-2002) and as Publications Chair
(2004-). Dr. Lubkin is co-Chair and Webmaster of the NCSU
Association of Women Faculty.
You can find out more about Professor Lubkin through her
Homepage. |
CARL
MEYER
meyer@math.ncsu.edu
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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
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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. |
JAMES
SELGRADE
selgrade@math.ncsu.edu
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Professor Selgrade received
a B.A. from Boston College (1968) and M.A. (1969) and
Ph.D. (1973) in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison. He has served as Interim Director of the Biomathematics
Graduate Program at NCSU. His current research is focused
on two areas:
(1) The use of stocking, harvesting, and migration to
control dynamical behavior and to restabilize a dynamical
system, with applications to differential and difference
equation models in population biology and genetics, and
(2) Modeling the menstrual cycle with the intention of
understanding its hormonal regulation and how environmental
chemicals may be disrupting this control system. One undergraduate,
two Masters students and a PhD student have worked with
Dr. Selgrade on various aspects of this modeling problem.
You can find out more about Professor Selgrade through
his Homepage. |
| RALPH
SMITH
rsmith@math.ncsu.edu
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Ralph C. Smith received
an A.B. degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University
(1983) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from
Montana State University in 1987 and 1990, respectively.
From 1990 to 1993, he was a staff scientist
at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science
and Engineering (ICASE) at NASA Langley Research Center.
He joined the Iowa State University faculty in September
1993 as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. In January
1998, he assumed the position of Associate Professor
of Mathematics at North Carolina State University. He
presently holds the positions of Professor of Mathematics
and Associate Director of the Center for Research in
Scientific Computation.
His research program focuses on smart
material applications, atomicforce microscopy and nanotechnology,
numerical analysis, and parameter estimation and control
design for distributed parameter systems with application
to structural, structural acoustic and aeroacoustic
systems. He is co-author of the book "Smart Material
Structures: Modeling, Estimation and Control" and
author of the book "Smart Material Systems: Model
Development".
You can find out more about Professor
Smith through his Homepage. |
DMITRY
ZENKOV
dvzenkov@math.ncsu.edu
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Professor Dmitry Zenkov received
a M.S. (Honors) in Mechanics and Mathematics from Moscow
State University in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from
the Ohio State University in 1998. He was a GIG Assistant
Professor at the University of Michigan from 1998-2001.
He was the recipient of the Horace Rackham Faculty Fellowship
at the University of Michigan in 1999. His research interests
are in geometry, mechanics, and control, with applications
to rigid body systems.
You can find out more about Professor Zenkov through his
Homepage. |
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