News from Campuses
Spring 2009
The University of Texas - Pan American
We are proud to announce that we have seven new additions to our UTPA
team for the 2008-2009 year.
The following new members are:
Dr. Ramendra K. Bose,
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from
State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1973. His research
expertise includes pure and applied
mathematics, functional analysis, and fixed point theory. He has
published 25 research papers in refereed
journals of mathematics, and previously directed two Ph.D.
dissertations and several master’s theses at
various universities in India;
Dr. Eleftherios Gkioulekas,
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics
from the University of Washington in 2006. His research expertise
includes applied mathematics, dynamical
systems, and turbulence. He has published eight research papers in
applied mathematics and the mathematical
theory of turbulence;
Dr. Virgil Pierce,
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2004.
His research expertise includes applied mathematics, random matrices,
complex analysis, and integrable systems.
He has published seven research papers in applied mathematics and
functional analysis, and received a Young
Investigator Award form the National Security Administration (NSA);
Dr. Mrinal Kanti
Roychowdhury, Assistant
Professor, Ph.D. in Mathematics from Weslayan University in 2005. His
research expertise includes applied
mathematics, dynamical systems, and fractals. He has published six
research papers in high quality refereed
journals;
Dr. George Yanev,
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Mathematics and Statistics from the
University of
South Florida in 2001. His research expertise includes statistics,
applied mathematics and probability. He
has published sixteen research papers in statistics, branching
stochastic processes, and biostatistics journals;
Dr. Timothy John Huber,
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
in 2007. He has published 7 refereed research papers in mathematics and
number theory in refereed journals of
mathematics. His research areas include Mathematical Analysis, Number
Theory and Combinatorics. He is at
present working as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of
Mathematics at Iowa State University from 2007.
He taught several undergraduate courses both at the University of
Illinois and Iowa State; and,
Dr. Sean Dodd
Lawton, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Mathematics from the
University of Maryland in 2006. He has published
five high quality research papers in Algebraic Geometry. His research
areas include Modern Algebra, Geometry,
Lie Groups and Algebraic Geometry. He has one paper published in AMS
Transactions and one paper accepted at
Math Annalen. He is presently teaching at Mathematics Department of the
University of Maryland.