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Email:	ackleh@louisiana.edu
Phone:	(337) 482-6709
Fax:	(337) 482-5346

Azmy S. Ackleh
Department of Mathematics
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA 70504-1010

PERSONAL

• Citizenship: United States
• Phone: (337) 482-6709
• Fax: (337) 482-5346
• E-mail: ackleh@louisiana.edu
• Website: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~asa5773/

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, August 1993.
• M.S. Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, August 1990.
• B.S. Data Processing and Mathematics, University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg KY, May 1988.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

• 2011-present: Head of the Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
• 2010-present: Director of Computation And Visualization Enterprise (CAVE).
• 2007-present: Dr. Ray P. Authement Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Computational Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
• 2003-present: Professor of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
• 2002-2007: SLEMCO Endowed Professor in General Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
• 2002-2003: Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
• 2001-2002: Associate Professor of Mathematics, Texas Tech University.
• 2000-2001: Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
• 1995-2000: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
• 1994-1995: Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State University.
• 1993-1994: Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Tennessee.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My current research interests are in the following areas of mathematical biology:

• The development of deterministic and stochastic population models with particular emphasis on age/size structured populations, invasive species, amphibians, phenotypic selection-mutation, and epidemics. The tools I use are ordinary/partial differential equations, difference equations, discrete and continuous Markov chain models, and Ito stochastic differential equations.
• Theoretical and computational approaches to stability analysis and long time behavior of solutions to mathematical models arising in biology.
• Computational methods for partial differential equations arising in biology with particular emphasis on finite difference and finite element methods and convergence analysis for these methods.
• Parameter estimation techniques with particular emphasis on identifying parameters in ordinary/partial differential equations arising in biology.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette Distinguished Professor Award 2007.
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette Summer Research Award 1999.
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette Summer Research Award 1996.
• The Graduate Student Achievement Award 1993.
• Science Alliance scholarship 1991-1993.
• Outstanding Student Award in the Department of Computer Information Systems 1988.
• Recipient of Summa Cum Laude graduation award 1988.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2009-present.
• Member of:
  • American Mathematical Society (AMS).
  • Society of Mathematical Biology (SMB).
  • Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
  • International Society of Difference Equations (ISDE).

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS PRESENTATIONS

• Modeling Biological Processes in Aggregation and Estimation of Stickiness Parameter. Annual SIGMA meeting, University of California Santa Barbara, 1993.
• Estimation of Stickiness Function and Effects of Grazing in Algal Aggregation Models. The Oceanographic Society Third Scientific meeting, 1993.
• A Community Aggregation Model and Application of an Inverse Method to Stickiness Estimation. The Ocean Sciences Meeting, 1994.
• Estimation of Temporally Discontinuous Time Dependent Parameters in a General Parabolic System. 3rd IEEE Mediterranean Conference on New Directions in Control and Automation, Limassol, Cyprus, July 11-13, 1995 (Invited).
• An Approximation Scheme for the Nonlinear Size Structured Model. International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, Springfield, Missouri, May 29 - June 1, 1996 (Invited).
• Estimation of Discontinuous Parameters in a Class of Nonautonomous Parabolic System. The 13th annual Conference on Applied Mathematics, Edmond, Oklahoma, February 21-22, 1997.
• Parameter Estimation in a Nonlinear Structured Tree Population Model With Self Shading Effects. 5th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Systems, Paphos, Cyprus, July 21-23, 1997 (Invited).
• Parameter Estimation in Nonlinear Evolution Equations. The 928th AMS Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 8-9, 1997 (Invited).
• A Monotone Approximation for a Nonlinear Nonlocal Hyperbolic Initial-Boundary Value Problem. The 14th annual Conference on Applied Mathematics, Edmond, OK, Feb 20-21, 1998.
• A Difference Approximation for A Coupled System of Structured Population Models. The Third International Conference on Dynamic Systems and Applications, Atlanta, GA, May 26-29, 1999 (Invited).
• Parameter Estimation Problem for a Nonlinear Parabolic Equation With a Singular Nonlocal Diffusion Term. The 7th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Haifa, Israel, June 28-30, 1999 (Invited).
• Parameter Identification in a Nonautonomous Nonlinear Volterra Integral Equation. The 7th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Haifa, Israel, June 28-30, 1999 (Invited).
• Approximation Theory for Parameter Identification in Nonlinear Nonlocal Evolution Equations. AMS Sectional Meeting #954, Lafayette, Louisiana, April 14-16, 2000 (Invited).
• Parameter Identification in a Class of Nonlocal Nonlinear Evolution Equations. International Workshop at Ohio University, Athens, OH, May 12-14, 2000 (Invited).
• Parameter Identification in Nonlocal Nonlinear Evolution Equations. International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, Atlanta, GA, May 18-21, 2000 (Invited).
• Parameter estimation in nonlocal evolution equations, Conference on Future Directions in Distributed Parameter Systems, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 5-7, 2000.
• A Coupled System of Nonlinear Size-Structured Populations, National AMS Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 10-13, 2001 (Invited).
• On a Nonlinear Functional Evolution Equation, Fifth Mississippi State Conference on Differential Equations & Computational Simulations, Starkville, MS, May 18-19, 2001.
• Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence for Pathogens in an Epidemic Model with Variable Population Size, Annual Meeting of the Society of Mathematical Biology, Knoxville, TN, July 13-16, 2002 (Invited).
• A quasilinear size-structured population model: approximation and long-time behavior, Workshop on Transport in Supply Chain, Traffic and Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, January 31 to February 1, 2003 (Invited).
• Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence for a Quasilinear Size-Structured Population Model, Fourth International Conference on Dynamic Systems and Applications, Atlanta, GA, May 21-24, 2003 (Invited).
• Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence Results for a Nonlinear Size-Structured Population Model, AMS meeting #989, Boulder, CO, October 2-4, 2003 (Invited).
• Measure-Valued Solutions for a Hierarchically Size-Structured Population Model, AMS meeting #995, Athens, OH, March 25-27, 2004 (Invited).
• Competitive Exclusion in Epidemic Models with Total Cross Immunity and Density-Dependent Host Mortality, Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics, Trento, Italy, June 21-25, 2004 (Invited).
• Rate Disribution and Survival of the Fittest: A Formulation on the Space of Measures, AMS meeting #1006, Lubbock, TX, April 8-10, 2005 (Invited).
• Mathematics Meets Biology: Competitive Exclusion, Coexistence and Data Fitting, Louisiana, May 25-28, 2005.
• Parameter Estimation in a Size-Structured Population Model, Sixth SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, New Orleans, LA, July 11-14, 2005.
• A Hierarchical Size-Structured Population Model: Existence of Measure-Valued Solutions, The European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Dresden, Germany, July 18-22, 2005.
• Understanding Hyla cinerea Green Treefrog Population Dynamics via Modeling and Field Studies, Joint AMS/MAA Mathematical Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, January 12-15, 2006 (Invited).
• Mathematical and Statistical Modeling in Biology: Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence, MAA minicourse # 8, Joint AMS/MAA Mathematical Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, January 12-15, 2006 (2-hours presentation).
• Ecosystem Modeling of College Drinking: A Compartmental Approach, 29th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, Baltimore, Maryland, June 24-28, 2006 (Invited).
• Mathematical Biology Program at the University of Louisiana: Curriculum Development and Research, Joint AMS/MAA Mathematical Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007 (Invited).
• Difference Approximation for Measure Valued Solutions to a Hierarchically Size Structured Population, Joint AMS/MAA Mathematical Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007 (Invited).
• Recent Applications of Structured Population Modeling, 2nd International Conference on Approximation Methods for Design and Control, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 7-9, 2007 (Plenary).
• Continuous Versus Seasonal Reproduction in Discrete Stage-Structured Population Models, AMS Meeting # 1027, Tucson, Arizona, April 21-22, 2007 (Invited).
• Structured Population Models: Measure-Valued Solutions and Difference Approximations, Workshop on Control Theory and Mathematical Biology, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 26-27, 2007 (Invited one hour talk).
• A Discrete Stage Structured Model for an Urban Green Tree Frog Population, Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems, Tucson, AZ, October 5-7, 2007 (Invited).
• A Selection-Mutation Model, Joint AMS/MAA Mathematical Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 6-9, 2008 (Invited).
• Parameter Identification for Structured Population Models, International Conference on Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulations, Fethiye, Turkey, May 24-30, 2008 (Invited).
• Structured Population Models with Application to Green Treefrogs, The Fifth World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Orlando, FL, July 2-9, 2008 (Invited).
• Finite-Difference Approximation for a Nonlinear Juvenile-Adult Model with Age-Size Structured Model, AMS Meeting #1044, Huntsville, AL, October 24-26, 2008.
• A Selection Mutation-Model Formulated on the space of Measures. Differential Equations and Applications in Ecology and Epidemiology, West Lafayette, Indiana, December 8-10, 2008 (Invited).
• Deterministic and Stochastic Juvenile-Adult Models with Application to Amphibians. Joint AMS/MAA Mathematical Meeting, Washington, DC, January 5-8, 2009 (Invited).
• A Juvenile-Adult Structured Model and a Selection Mutation Model. Conference on Mathematical Biology: Modeling and Differential Equations, Barcelona, Spain, February 9-13, 2009 (Plenary).
• Deterministic and Stochastic Juvenile-Adult Models with Application to Amphibians. South African Symposium for Numerical and Applied Mathematics, Stellenbosch, South Africa, April 6-8, 2009 (Invited).
• Ecosystem Modeling of College Drinking: Parameter Estimation and Comparing Models to Data. Annual RSA Research Conference, San Diego, CA, June 20-24, 2009.
• Competitive Exclusion Results for a Discrete Stage-Structured Model with Application to Blue and Yellow Irises. Istanbul Conference on Mathematical Methods and Modeling in Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Istanbul, Turkey, August 17-21, 2009 (Invited).
• Competitive Exclusion in a Discrete-Time, Stage-Structured Population Model.The Second International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems, Huntsville, Alabama, October 9-11, 2009 (Invited).
• A Replicator-Mutator Model on the Space of Measures. AMS Meeting # 1053, Boca Raton, Florida, October 30-November 1, 2009 (Invited).
• Competitive Exclusion in a Juvenile-Adult Model with Continuous and Seasonal Reproduction. Joint Mathematical Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 13-16, 2010 (Invited).
• A Nonlinear Evolutionary Game Replicator-Mutator Model on the Space of Measures, The 8th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Dresden, Germany, May 25-28, 2010 (Invited).
• A Structured Juvenile-Adult Model with Application to Amphibians, The 8th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Dresden, Germany, May 25-28, 2010 (Invited).
• An Evolutionary Game Replicator-Mutator Model on Measure Spaces, Joint SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMA Meeting Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations DSPDEs'10, Barcelona, Spain, May 31 - June 4, 2010.
• Structured Juvenile Adult Models with Application to Amphibians, SIAM Conference on Life Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA, July 12-15, 2010 (Invited).
• Juvenile-Adult Models with Application to a Green Tree Frog Population, 4th International Conference on Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computation, Atlanta, GA, August 11-14, 2010 (Invited).
• Persistence and Global Stability in a Size-Structured Model with Selection and Mutation, AMS Sectional Meeting #1063, Los Angeles, CA, October 9-10, 2010 (Invited).
• A Stage-Structured Dispersal Model with Constant and Periodic Environments, Joint Mathematical Meeting, New Orleans, January 6-9, 2011 (Invited).
• Littoral Acoustic Demonstration Center – LADC: Assessing the Long-Term Impact and Recovery of Marine Mammal Populations after the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Marine Mammals Commission Annual Meeting, New Orleans, May 10-12, 2011 (Invited).
• Selection-Mutation Models With and Without Size Structure, Biomath 2011: International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Models in Biosciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, June 15-18, 2011 (Keynote).
• A High Resolution Finite Difference Scheme for a Juvenile-Adult Amphibian Model, Third Conference of the Euro-American Consortium for Promoting the Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences, Albena, Bulgaria, June 20-25, 2011 (Plenary).
• Using Statistical Modeling and Acoustic Data to Access the Gulf Oil Spill Impact on Sperm Whales, Istanbul Conference on Mathematical Methods and Modeling in Life Sciences and Biomedicine 2011, August 15-19, 2011 (Invited).
• Persistence and Competitive Exclusion for a Nonautonomous Multi-Strain SIR Epidemic Model with Nonlinear Host Mortality, Joint Mathematical Meeting,Boston MA, January 4-8, 2012 (Invited).

COLLOQUIA AND SEMINAR TALKS

• Mathematics Department, North Carolina State University, February 1995.
• Mathematics Department, Florida State University, April 1995.
• Mathematics Department, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, June 1995.
• Mathematics Department, The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, July, 1997.
• Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Department, Marquette University, March, 1998.
• The National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA, March, 1998.
• Mathematics Department, The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, June, 1999.
• Mathematics and Statistics Department, Texas Tech University, November, 2000.
• Mathematics and Statistics Department, Texas Tech University, July, 2001.
• Mathematics Department, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, March, 2002.
• Mathematics Department, University of Wyoming, November, 2003.
• Mathematics Department, Loyola Maymount University, April, 2004.
• Mathematics Department, The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, July, 2004.
• Mathematics Department, University of Dayton, November, 2005.
• Mathematics Department, Union College, May, 2006.
• Mathematics Department, The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, June, 2006.
• Mathematics Department, Loyola University, November, 2006.
• Mathematics Department, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, June, 2007.
• Mathematics Department, University of Florida, March, 2008.
• Mathematics and Statistics Department, Arizona State University, March, 2008.
• Mathematics Department, Trinity University, March, 2009.
• Mathematics Department, The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, July, 2009.
• Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, July, 2009.
• Computing Science and Mathematics Department, University of Stirling, Scotland, August, 2011.

EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING

• Principal Investigator, U.S. Department of the Interior, US Geological Survey, Graphic Visualization Tool and Animation Product of Mekong River Flow, Dam Effects and Impact on Food Security, 2011-2013, $150,000.
• Principal Investigator, U.S. Department of the Interior, US Geological Survey, Modeling Nutria Dynamics, 2011-2012, $16,000.
• Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, RAPID: Modeling of Short-Term and Long-Term MarineMammal Population Trends in the Vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring Cues, 2010-2011, $192,197.
• Co-Investigator, National Institutes of Health, Ecological Modelling of College Drinking, 2009-2010, $100,000.
• Principal Investigator, U.S. Department of the Interior, US Geological Survey, Modeling Nutira Population Dynamics, 2009-2010, $12,000.
• Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Continuous Structured Population Models with Application to Green Treefrogs, 2007-2010, $250,000.
• Principal Investigator, Ducks Unlimited Inc., Modeling and Simulation of the Western Gulf Coast Population of Mottled Ducks, 2006, $9,700.
• Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, UBM: Training Undergraduate Students in Mathematics and Biology at UL Lafayette, 2005-2011, $534,000.
• Co-investigator, National Institutes of Health, Ecological Modeling of College Drinking, 2005-2009, $1,027,351.
• Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, UBM: Training Undergraduate Students in Mathematical Biology, Supplement Award to Collaborative Research: Nonlinear Nonlocal First Order Hyperbolic Problems in Population Models, 2003-2005, $75,625.
• Principal Investigator, U.S. Department of the Interior, US Geological Survey, A Spatially Explicit Model for Nutria Population Dynamics and Management, 2003-2008, $42,956.
• Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: Nonlinear Nonlocal First Order Hyperbolic Problems in Population Models, 2002-2005, $118,157. This is a collaborative grant, total funding $205,021.
• Principal Investigator, Maryland Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Modeling Nutria (Myocastor coypus) Population Dynamics in Marshes on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 2002-2003, $5,000.
• Principal Investigator, USGS Wetlands Research Center, Nutria Impact on Marsh Loss, 2001, $6,450.
• Principal Investigator, Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund, Modeling and Parameter Estimation in Nonlinear Size-Structured Population Dynamics, 1996-1999, $49,503.

EXTERNAL FUNDING FOR WORKSHOPS, GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS, AND TRAVEL

• Principal Investigator, Mathematical Association of America/ Statistical and Applied Mathematical Institute, Mathematics Meets Biology: Competitive Exclusion, Coexistence, and Data Fitting, PREP Workshop, 2005, $18,500.
• Principal Investigator, Mathematical Association of America/Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Mathematics Meets Biology: Epidemics, Data Fitting, and Chaos, PREP Workshop, 2004, $29,599.
• Principal Investigator, Board of Regents Science Fund, Regents' Fellowship Proposal for the Mathematical Sciences at UL Lafayette, 2001-2005, $68,000.
• Principal Investigator, Travel Grant for Emerging Faculty (TGEF), National Science Foundation and Board of Regents Science Fund, 1999, $1,000.

REFEREE AND REVIEW ACTIVITIES

1. Book reviews
   • Gender Structured Population Modeling: Mathematical Methods, Numerics, and Simulations, by M. Iannelli, M. Marcheva, and F.A. Milner, SIAM Frontiers in Applied Mathematics, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2005. (Review appeared in Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, 14(2005), 1229).
   • Numerical Methods Using Matlab, Fourth Edition, By J. H. Mathews and K. D. Fink. Pearson-Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2004.

2. Referee for the following journals:

   • SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics.
   • Journal of Mathematical Biology.
   • Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications.
   • Natural Resource Modeling.
   • Mathematical Biosciences.
   • Dynamics of Discrete, Continuous and Impulsive Systems.
   • Nonlinear Analysis, Theory Methods and Applications.
   • Dynamic Systems and Applications.
   • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics.
   • International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences.
   • Computers & Mathematics with Applications.
   • Kybernetika.
   • Applied Mathematics Letters.
   • Applicable Analysis.
   • Journal of Biological Systems.
   • Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Series B.
   • Journal of Difference Equations and Applications.
   • Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics.
   • Applied Numerical Mathematics.
   • Journal of Biological Dynamics.
   • Journal of Scientific Computing.
   • International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling.
   • Journal of Theoretical Biology.
   • Applied Mathematics and Computation.
   • Computers and Mathematics with Applications.
3. Reviewed proposals for NSF.
4. Served as an NSF panelist.
5. Reviews proposals for CINSAM at Northern Kentucky University.

DEVELOPMENT OF SOFTWARE PACKAGES

• A Spatially Explicit Model for Nutria Population Dynamics and Management (with J. Carter, J. Derouen, and S. Hu). This package development was funded by the USGS-National Wetlands Research Center.
• A Numerical Solver for General Size Structured Population Models (with J. Derouen and S. Hu). This package development was funded by NSF.

PH.D. DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED/CO-DIRECTED

• Robert R. Ferdinand, May 1999. (Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, East Central University, Eda, Oklahoma)
• David Marshall, May 1999. (Landmann, Lafayette, Louisisna)
• Shuhua Hu, December 2004. (Senior Research Scientist, Center for Research in Scientific Professor, North Carolina State University).
• Xubo Wang, August 2005. (Associate Professor, Macon State College, Macon, Georgia)
• Jeremy Thibodeaux, May 2007. (Assistant Professor, Loyola University, New Orleans)
• Youssef Dib, May 2007. (Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana at Monroe)
• John Cleveland, December 2009. (Instructor, Penn State University)
• Ross Chiquet, December 2009. (Instructor and Freshman Coordinator, University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
• Qihua Huang, August 2011. (Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta Canada)
• Pei Zhang, 2011. (Instructor Northwestern State University, Louisiana)
• Baoling Ma, current student.

PH.D. DISSERTATIONS COMMITTEE MEMBER

• Scott Semel, 1996.
• Jianmin Kevin Zhu, 1998.
• Jason Huffman, 1999.
• Xiaoou Jiang, 2004.
• Julio Cesar Carrillo-Escobar, 2007.
• Tawikan Treeyaprasert, 2007.
• Fei Lu, 2007.
• Jei peng, 2008.
• Patcharin Tragoonsirisak, 2009.
• Julie Roy, 2010.
• Abhinandan Chowdhury, 2010.
• Xing Yang, 2011.

RESEARCH DIRECTION FOR UNDERGRADUATES

• Seth Boudreaux (Mathematics), August 2003-2005.
• Sam Karhbet (Mathematics), August 2003-July 2005.
• Lanminh Pham (Biology), August 2003-July 2005.
• Becky Price (Mathematics), August 2003-July 2005.
• Hanh Naguyen (Biology), February 2005-July 2005.
• Joanna Nunez (Biology), February 2005-July 2005.
• Lauren Orillion (Biology), August 2005-December 2005.
• Lauren Cole (Biology), August 2005-August 2007.
• Tom Nguyen (Mathematics), August 2005-August 2007.
• Jay Monte (Mathematics), August 2005-August 2007.
• Claire Pettit (Mathematics), August 2005-August 2007.
• Les Begnaud (Mathematics), August 2006-May 2008.
• Caleb Williams (Biology), August 2006-May 2008.
• Jessie Castille (Mathematics), August 2006-August 2008
• Brandon Dejean (Mathematics), August 2006-August 2008
• Grant Guidry (Biology), August 2006-August 2008.
• Robert Tesch (Mathematics), August 2006-August 2008.
• Amber Gordon (Biology), August 2007-May 2008.
• Amy Demoruelle (Mathematics), August 2007- August 2009.
• Geoffery Goudeau (Mathematics), August 2007-August 2009.
• Jared Guilbeau (Mathematics), August 2007-August 2009.
• Anthony Mai (Mathematics), August 2007-August 2009.
• Daniel Sutton (Mathematics), August 2008-October 2009.
• Faran Dietz (Biology), August 2008-August 2010.
• Tracy Robin (Mathematics), August 2008-August 2010.
• Camile Dugas (Biology), August 2009-August 2010.
• Daniel Gould (Biology), August 2009-August 2011.
• Ariane Martin (Biology), August 2009-August 2011.
• Alex Richard (Mathematics), August 2010-August 2011.
• Brandy Thibodeaux (Mathematics), August 2010-August 2011.
• Forest Huval (Biology), January 2011-August 2011.

RESEARCH COLLABORATORS

• L.J.S. Allen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409.
• S. Aizicovici, Department of Mathematics, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701.
• J.E. Banks, Department of Environmental Science, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA 98402.
• H.T. Banks, Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205.
• J. Carter, US Geological Survey-The National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA 70506-3152.
• C. E. Cole, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC 27607-5298
• Patrick DeLeenheer, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8105.
• M. Demetriou, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609.
• K. Deng, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-1010.
• B.G. Fitzpatrick, Department of Mathematics MC-8130, Loyola Marymount University , Los Angeles, CA 90045-8130.
• K. Hasenstein, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-1010.
• H.E. Heatherly, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-1010.
• K. Ito, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205.
• G. Jacquez, Biomedware Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1236.
• S. Jang, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-1010.
• W. Li, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504.
• S. Mopper, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-1010.
• N. Pal, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-1010.
• G.A. Pinter, Center for Industrial Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413.
• S. Reich, Department of Mathematics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000 Israel.
• R. Rommel, Biomedware Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1236.
• R. Scribner, School of Public Health, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA 70112.
• N. Simonsen, School of Public Health, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA 70112.
• J. Stark, Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164.
• H. Thieme, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1804.
• H. Tran, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205.

ORGANIZED CONFERENCES, SPECIAL SESSIONS AND SEMINARS

• Co-organizer of the Twenty-Eight Annual Lloyd Roeling/UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference, 1997.
• Co-organizer of a special session on Mathematical Models in the Biological and Physical Sciences. AMS Meeting #954, Lafayette, LA, April 14-16, 2000.
• Co-organizer of the Biomathematics Seminar in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University, Fall 2001 and Spring 2002.
• Co-organizer of a special session in honor of T. G. Hallam for the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology and International Conference on Mathematics and Biology, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville, July, 2002.
• Co-organizer of the Biomathematics Seminar in the Department of Mathematics at UL Lafayette, Spring 2003.
• Chair of the organizing committee for the Thirty-Third Annual Lloyd Roeling/UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference, 2003.
• Co-organizer of an MAA PREP workshop Mathematics Meets Biology: Epidemics, Data Fitting, and Chaos, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, May 26-29, 2004.
• Co-organizer of an MAA PREP workshop Mathematics Meets Biology: Competitive Exclusion, Coexistence and Data Fitting, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, May 25-28, 2005.
• Co-orgainzer of a minisymposium on Inverse Problems on Electromagnetic and Biology. Six SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, New Orleans, LA, July 11-14, 2005.
• Co-organizer of an MAA minicourse on Mathematical and statistical modeling in biology: Competitive exclusion, coexistence, estimation, and control, Joint AMS/MAA Mathematics Meeting, San Antonio, January 12-15, 2006.
• Co-organizer of the Thirty-Eight Annual Lloyd Roeling/UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference, October 10-12, 2008.
• Co-organizer of Special Session on Mathematical Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulations. AMS Meeting #1044, Huntsville, AL, October 24-26, 2008.
• Co-organizer of minisymposium on Continuous and Discrete Dynamical Systems with Applications to Biology, Joint SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMA Meeting Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations DSPDEs'10, Barcelona, Spain, May 31-June 4, 2010.
• Co-organizer of the special session on Modeling in Biology, Ecology and Epidemiology, as a part of the Third Conference of the Euro-American Consortium for Promoting the Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences, Albena, Bulgaria, June 20-25, 2011.

COURSES TAUGHT AT UL LAFAYETTE

• MATH 695-696 (Advanced Topics in Differential Equations).
• MATH 655-656 (Advanced Topics in Numerical Analysis).
• MATH 555-556 (Advanced Numerical Analysis).
• MATH 497(G)-498(G) (Special Projects I-II).
• MATH 451(G)-452(G) (Biomathematics I-II)
• MATH 493(G)-494(G) (Advanced Calculus I-II).
• MATH 455(G) (Numerical Analysis).
• MATH 450(G) (Mathematical Modeling).
• MATH 370 (Undergraduate Research).
• MATH 362 (Elementary Linear Algebra).
• MATH 350 (Differential Equations).
• MATH 301 (Calulus II).
• MATH 270 (Calculus I).
• MATH 250 (Survey of Calculus).
• MATH 110 (Precalculus Trigonometry and Function Theory).
• MATH 109 (Precalculus Algebra).

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

In 2005 I developed the following courses. These courses have been running every year with graduate and undergraduate student enrollment.

• MATH 451(G). BIOMATHEMATICS I. (3 hours). Development and analysis of discrete-time models in biology.
• MATH 452(G). BIOMATHEMATICS II. (3 hours). Development and analysis of continuous-time models in biology.

OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE AT UL LAFAYETTE

• Graduate Coordinator for the Department of Mathematics, 1999-2001
• A member of the Board of Directors for the Department of Mathematics at UL Lafayette, 2000-2001.
• Chair of the Graduate Council, 2005-2007.

DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE SERVICE

• Applied Mathematics, 1995-2000 (member), 2002-2005 (member), 2005-2010 (chair).
• Undergraduate Recruitment Committee, 1995-2000 (member).
• Calculus, 1996-1997 (member).
• Conferences, 1997-1998 (member), 1999-2000 (member), 2003-2004 (chair), 2008-2009 (Chair).
• Graduate Affairs Committee, 1997-1998 (member), 1999-2000 (chair).
• Colloquium, 1998-1999 (chair), 2002-2003 (member).
• Centennial Committee, 1999-2000 (chair).
• Graduate Students Admissions and Advising, 2000-2001 (chair), 2003-2005 (member).
• Graduate Students Recruiting, 2000-2001 (chair), 2002-2003 (member), 2006-present (member).
• Graduate Courses, Sequences, and Testing, 2000-2001 (member), 2002-2005 (member).
• Teaching in Labs, 2000-2001 (member).
• Publicity and Web Page, 2002-2003 (chair).
• Newsletter, 2002-2004 (chair), 2004-2005 (member).
• Tenure and Promotion, 2004-2005 (member), 2007-present (member).
• Hiring, 2005-2010 (member), 2011-present (chair).
• Assessment, 2007-2011 (member).

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Member of the College of Sciences Centennial Committee, 1999-2000.
• Faculty Senator, 2003-present.
• A member of the Graduate Council, 2004-2005.
• Mentor for LAMP scholar Joel Derouen, 2001.
• Member of the College Computational Biology Search Committee, 2008-2009.
• Member of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Budget Task Forces on Research and Development, 2009. (chaired the subcommittee on Grants and Contracts Overhead Uses).
• Chair of the College of Sciences Graduate Faculty Peer Review Committee, 2009-present.

GRADUATE COUNCIL COMMITTEE SERVICE

• Awards and Honorary Doctorates, 2005-2007 (member).
• Curriculum, 2005-2007 (member).
• Graduate Students Appeals, 2004-2007 (member).
• Fellowships, 2005-2007 (member).
• Graduate Faculty, 2005-2007 (member).

SERVED AS MASTER OF CEREMONIES FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL

• Fall 2005.
• Spring 2006.
• Fall 2006.
• Spring 2007.