| I received my B.S. degree from
the University
of Michigan – Dearborn in
mathematics. Not wanting to work
for a corporation, I entered graduate school at the University of Wyoming
in mathematics. I received a M.S. degree in mathematics and then a
Ph.D. in
applied mathematics.
My first ‘job’
was a post-doctoral visiting professor at the
University of California
– Davis.
I did
that for 3 years and then I applied for a tenure-track position. I am
now a
full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at that
university; James
Madison University.
Also, I am currently the director of the Center for Computational
Mathematics
and Modeling at JMU.
I have worked
in several areas of applied mathematics. My
main interest is in helping others to learn applied mathematics to help
them
solve their problems and to help make the earth a better place to live.
I
especially enjoy studying initial value ordinary and partial
differential
equations. I have publications in
several areas of applied mathematics and I have received several grants
to
study areas of applied mathematics.
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