People
H. T. (Tom) Banks:
(Drexel Professor of Mathematics)
- Director of the Center For Research
in Scientific Computation
S. L. (Steve) Campbell:
(Professor of Mathematics)
- Numerical and analytical methods for implicit systems of differential equations
and their applications in mechanics and control.
Alina Chertock: (Assistant Professor
of Mathematics)
- Free boundary problems for nonlinear PDEs, focusing on both analytic asymptotic
methods and high-resolution numerical methods. Numerical methods for time dependent
PDEs, hyperbolic conservation laws, degenerate parabolic equations.
M. T. (Moody) Chu:
(Professor of Mathematics)
- Numerical analysis and implicit systems of differential equations.
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R. E. (Bob)
Funderlic: (Professor of Computer Science)
- Scientific computing, numerical linear algebra, parallel algorithms and high
performance computing. Current work deals with insights into the Lanczos and conjugate
gradient methods as well as the generalized singular value decomposition.
P. (Pierre)
Gremaud: (Associate Professor of Mathematics)
- Variational methods in continuum mechanics, numerical methods for conservation
Laws.
M.A. (Mansoor) Haider: (Assistant Professor
of Mathematics)
- Scientific computing, boundary integral methods. Applications to modeling in
orthopaedic biomechanics and electromagnetic scattering.
I. C. F. (Ilse) Ipsen: (Professor
of Mathematics)
- Numerical linear algebra and parallel computing.
K. (Kazi) Ito: (Professor
of Mathematics)
- Optimal control and inverse problems in systems governed by PDEs and analytical
and numerical methods for solutions to PDEs; feedback synthesis for systems governed
by nonlinear PDEs and boundary control as well as mathematical analysis and numerical
methods in control of Navier-Stokes equation.
C. T. (Tim) Kelley:
(Drexel Professor of Mathematics)
- Nonlinear equations, multilevel methods, large scale optimization, flow in porous
media, radiative transfer, and integral equations.
Zhilin Li: (Associate Professor of Mathematics)
- Numerical methods for differential equations, especially for moving bounday/interface
problems and applications.
C. D. (Carl) Meyer: (Professor
of Mathematics)
- Numerical linear algebra and matrix computations, applied linear algebra, discrete
Markov chains, aggregation/disaggregation algorithms.
J. F. (John) Monahan:
(Professor of Statistics)
- Statistical computing, time series analysis and Bayesian analysis. Numerical
analysis such as function approximation to "fast algorithms" for
random number generation. Current work concerns random integration rules
for Bayesian problems and applications to meteorology of complex principal
components analysis of variables in time and space.
M. S. (Mette) Olufsen: (Assistant
Professor of Mathematics)
- Computation biofluid dynamics. Especially modeling fluid dynamics and control
of the cardiovascular system.
J. S. (Jeff)
Scroggs: (Associate Professor of Mathematics)
- Development of parallel numerical methods for the approximation of solutions
to partial differential equations with application to fluid dynamics.
C. E. (Chuck) Siewert:
(Professor of Mathematics)
- Neutron-transport theory and radiative transfer, polarization problems in radiative
transfer and combined mode, radiation-conduction, heat transfer. Recent work concerns
an improved iterative method for solving a class of coupled conductive-radiative
heat-transfer problems as well as the P-N method with mark boundary conditions.
Kartik
K. Sivaramakrishnan: (Assistant Professor of Mathematics)
- Theory, algorithms, and applications of convex optimization including
linear, second order, and semidefinite programming; interior point methods;
and decomposition and nonsmooth approaches for large scale optimization.
W. J. (Billy) Stewart:
(Professor of Computer Science)
- Numerical Linear algebra; computational Markov chains; queueing networks; performance
analysis of computer and communication systems.
H. T. (Hien) Tran:
(Professor of Mathematics)
- Numerical methods for identification and control of infinite-dimensional systems;
mathematical modeling and control of gas flow dynamics in a rapid thermal chemical
vapor epitaxy reactor; mathematical modeling of biological and physiological systems.
S. (Seymon) Tsynkov: (Associate
Professor of Mathematics)
- Artificial Boundary Conditions (ABCs) for External Aerodynamics, combined Implementation
of Non-Local ABCs with the New Generation of Advanced Multigrid Flow Solvers Based
on Factorizable Schemes, Long-Term Numerical Integration of Wave-Type Solutions,
Active Shielding and Control of Environmental Noise, Numerical Solution of the Nonlinear
Helmholtz Equation.
P. J. (Paul) Turinsky:
(Professor of Nuclear Engineering)
- Computational reactor physics; nuclear fuel management optimization and parallel
solution of diffusion and transport equations; multilevel acceleration of the nodal
solution form of the neutron diffusion equation; parallel solution utilizing domain
decomposition of the integral form of the neutron transport equation; stochastic
optimization of the in-core nuclear fuel management optimization problem.
R. E. (Bob) White: (Professor
of Mathematics)
- Numerical solution of Richards' equation for the fluid flow in unsaturated porous
media, numerical solution of the equilibrium equations.
Mathematics People at NC State
Mathematics Faculty:
- This is a listing of the Mathematics Faculty Directory complete with office numbers,
telephone numbers, and some e-mail addresses.