Education
- B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986
- Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Maryland, 1991
Academic Interests
Books
- Spectral and Dynamical Stability of Nonlinear Waves, co-authored with K. Promislow (Springer, 2013)
- Ordinary Differential Equations and Applied Linear Algebra (2nd edition) (SIAM, 2026)
- CMS: https://www.myopenmath.com/course/course.php?folder=0&cid=115487 (over 300 online HW problems)
- Applied Partial Differential Equations (SIAM, in preparation)
- CMS: https://www.myopenmath.com/course/course.php?folder=0&cid=151246 (over 75 online HW problems)
Lectures
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Summer School 2026 - Stability of Nonlinear Waves, Karlsruhe, Germany (Eigenvalues and spectral/dynamical stability of nonlinear waves (four lectures))
- Florida International University: Joint Alabama-Florida Conference on Differential Equations, Dynamical
Systems, and Applications (Spectral theory for nonlinear waves (three lectures)) - Istituto Nazionale Di Alta Matematica: XLIX Summer School on Mathematical Physics, Ravello, Italy (Spectral stability of nonlinear waves: point spectrum and bifurcations (six lectures))
Awards
- Provost’s Award for Enduring Scholarly Contribution (2025)
- Buckingham Scholar, Miami U. 49th Annual Mathematics Conference (2023)
- Recipient of a SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (2008)
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