Curriculum Vitae

Date of Birth: May 28, 1942

Education:

	Degree	Year	Institution
	B.S. (Mathematics)	1964	University of Kansas
	M.A. (Mathematics)	1965	University of Kansas
	Ph.D. (Mathematics)	1968	University of Kansas

Professional Experience:

	Teaching Assist., Math.	1965-67	University of Kansas
	Instructor, Math.	1967-68	University of Kansas
	Assist. Professor, Math.	1968-72	UNL
	Assoc. Professor, Math.	1972-76	UNL
	Professor, Math.	1976-2010	UNL
	Professor Emeritus, Math.	2010-present	UNL
	Graduate Faculty Member & Fellow	1970	UNL
	Vice Chair, Mathematics & Statistics	1975-1980	UNL
	Acting Chair, Mathematics & Statistics	1981 (January-August)	UNL
	Summer Chair, Mathematics & Statistics	1976-1980	UNL
	Visiting Professor of Mathematics	1985-1986	NCSU
	Interim Director, Actuarial Science	1986-1987	UNL
	Summer Chair, Mathematics & Statistics	1998	UNL

Research Interests: Group theory, ring theory, commutative algebra, mathematical modeling, general numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra, numerical differential equations, Sinc methods, inverse theory.

Grants, Contracts, Fellowships, Leaves:

1985 Faculty Development Leave spent at North Carolina State University, Department of Mathematics, Academic Year.

1990 NSF ILI Grant ($51,000) for ``Implementation of an Advanced Laboratory for Mathematics Experimentation.''

1995 Faculty Development Leave spent in Lincoln, Spring Semester.

2002 Faculty Development Leave spent in Lincoln, Spring Semester.

Honors:

Distinguished Teaching Award, UNL, 1981.

MAA Nebraska-Southeast South Dakota Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1996.

Professional Society Memberships:

1. SIAM
2. American Mathametical Society
3. Mathematical Association of America

	AY	Fall	Spring	Summer
	1993-94	Math 208, 441	Math 314H, 208	Math 208
	1994-95	Math 942, 314	FDL
	1995-96	Math 441, 957	Math 447,314	Math 314
	1996-97	Math 314, 423	Math 314, 221
	1997-98	Math 106H,441, 942	Math 107H, 447
	1998-99	Math 314, 447	Math 314, 405
	1999-00	Math 208, 447	Math 314H, 942
	2000-01	Math 107, 441	Math 208, 314H
	2001-02	Math 107, 942	FDL
	2002-03	Math 221H, 398, 842	Math 314H, 843	Math 896
	2003-04	Math 208H, 942	Math 208, 208
	2004-05	Math 208H, 208	Math 340H, 433
	2005-06	Math 208H, 208	Math 496, JDEP 384H
	2006-07	Math 314, 447	Math 496, JDEP 384H
	2007-08	Math 208H, 208	Math 221, 428
	2008-09	Math 221H, 447	Math 441

Independent Study, Reading Course Supervised (1993-2008):

1. Numerical Analysis Seminar, for Kristin Pfabe, Kamel Al-Khaled, Jennifer Raschko, Paul Gierke and Iyad Abu-Jeib (1994-99).
2. Directed senior thesis for James Yen entitled ``A biconjugation approach to rank reduction'' (1997).
3. Co-directed senior thesis for Stephen Whalen entitled ``Stabilization of the wave equation'' (1998).
4. Reading course for Iouliana Stadnikova in numerical linear algebra (1999).
5. Reading course for Ned Hummel and Megan Sheets in multigrid methods (2001).
6. Reading course for Ned Hummel in inverse theory (2002).
7. Directed Masters Thesis for Ned Hummel entitled ``On multigrid methods and inverse problems'' (2002).
8. Research experience reading course for Chandra Coleman and Joan Lubben in inverse theory (2003).
9. Readings course jointly with Ashok Samal (CSCE) for Won Lee and Wenjin Zhou, both UCARE students, on level set methods for shape recognition and noise removal (2004).
10. Readings course jointly with Ashok Samal (CSCE) for Qing Yang and Raghavendra Bemgal in diffusion methods and applicability to analysis of spatial data, particularly criminal data (2004-2005).
11. Readings course for Ned Hummel in multigrid methods (2005).
12. Seminar in Sinc theory (Numerical Analysis Seminar, Math 957) for Dan Buettner and Brian Bockelman (2005).
13. Directing UCARE student Adam Nordloh in an inverse theory/mathematical biology project (2005-2006).

Advising:

Ph.D. Students:

	Name	Student Status
	Bonnie Hardy	graduated 1976
	Frederick Call	graduated 1979
	Jagannadham Pakala	graduated 1979
	Kristin Pfabe	graduated 1995
	Kamel Al-Khaled	graduated 1996
	Jennifer Mueller	graduated 1997
	Paul Gierke	graduated 1999
	Iyad Abu-Jeib	graduated 2000
	Ned Hummel	graduate student
	Brian Bockelman	graduated 2008

Doctoral Committee Memberships:

	Name	Student Status
	Karl Byleen	graduated 1974
	Bette Midgarden	graduated 1978
	Brian Coomes	graduated 1984
	Timothy Peil	graduated 1990
	Axel Krings	graduated 1993
	Michelle Homp	graduated 1997
	Rikki Wagstrom	graduated 1998
	Steven Lindblad	graduated 2004
	Jiazheng Shi	graduated 2005 CSCE
	Qing Yang	current student, CSCE
	Bobbi Buchholz	current student

Other Graduate Student Advisees:

	Name	Student Status
	Paul Lawin	inactive
	Neil Kerr	inactive

Seminar Participation (1993-2010):

	1993-2002	Applied Math Seminar
	1993-1999	Numerical Analysis Seminar (MA 957)
	2001-2006	Mathematical Biology Seminar
	2005-2006	Numerical Analysis Seminar (MA 957)

Service Activities (1993-2010):

Departmental:

1. Chair of Computer Committee, 1984-1998.
2. Member of Curriculum Committee, 1984-2003.
3. Member of Alumnus Relations Committee, 2003-2010.
4. Chair of Web Advisory Committee, 1996-1998.
5. Chair of Technology Advisory Committee, 1998-2010.
6. Member of Graduate Advisory Committee, 2005-2010.
7. Member of Degrees with Distinction Committee, 1998-2005.
8. Supervised the reorganization of the math department lab network to a Windows NT network for Bessey 105, Summer 1998.
9. Supervised the reorganization of the Nextstep side of the math department lab network to a Linux network, Summer 1999.
10. Supervised the planning and execution, and participated in the execution, of the move of all our computer facilities from Oldfather Hall to Avery Hall, Spring and Summer 2004.

College:

1. Member of Integrated Sciences Committee, 1997-2000.
2. Member of College Executive Committee, 2001-2005, Committee Chair 2004-2005.

Editorial, Refereeing and Reviewing Activities:

Referee for Pacific Journal of Mathematics, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Canadian Journal of Mathematics Mathematica Japonicae, Applied Numerical Mathematics, Mathematica in Education, Inverse Problems in Engineering and CTAC 2004 Proceedings. Referee for NSF Proposal.

Talks Presented at Professional Meetings (1993-2010):

1. ``One sided Jacobi algorithms and The SVD'', Midwest Numerical Analysis Conference, University of Iowa, April 1995.
2. ``Stability of travelling waves in solute transport'', Numerical Analysis Days, University of Utah, July, 1995.
3. ``Numerical methods for systems of two balance laws in one space dimension'', AMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 1997.
4. ``Some aspects of Sinc theory in solving inverse problems'', International Workshop on Nonlinear and Improperly Posed Problems, August 1998.
5. ``An inverse coefficient problem for an integro-differential equation'', International Conference on Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems, Moscow State University, June 2001.
6. ``An Inverse Coefficient Problem in Adsorption Models'', Colorado State University, May 2002.
7. ``Numerical Methods for Parameter Identification in a One-Dimensional Convection-Diffusion Equation'', First International Converence on Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation, Fethiye, Turkey, July 2002.
8. ``Some Applications of Sinc Methods to Parameter Identification Problems'', Fifth International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Sidney, Australia, July 2003.

Other Professional Meetings Attended (1993-2010):

1. AMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1995. Annual SIAM Meeting, Kansas City, 1996.
2. AMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, 1997.
3. International Workshop on Nonlinear and Improperly Posed Problems, Izmit, Turkey, 1998.

Other Professional Activities (1993-2008):

1. Math Computer Lab Manager, 1991-1995.
2. Director of Math Lab, 1995-2008.
3. Attended a TTT workshop and reported to the department in a colloquium with John Orr and Mel Thornton on multimedia in the classroom, November 1995.
4. Presented paper ``New directions in technology in the classroom'' at Koeceli University, Izmit, Turkey, June 1997.
5. Served on Programme Committee for International Workshop on Nonlinear and Improperly Posed Problems, 1998.

Publications:

1. A note on products of normal subgroups, Canad. Math. Bull. 12(1969), 21-24.
2. On Z-hypercentral normal subgroups, Arch. der Math. 21(1970), 344-348.
3. On the theory of Engel elements in groups, Illinois J. Math. 15(1971), 578-594.
4. Decompositions of finitely generated modules, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 30(1971), 445-450.
5. On the star condition, Arch. der Math. 23(1972), 1-9.
6. Injective modules over duo rings, Pac. J. Math. 40(1972), 895-702.
7. The structure of Loewy modules, J. reine angew. Math. 254(1972), 204-220.
8. A chain condition for groups, Rocky Mountain J. Math. 3(1973), 83-89.
9. Decompositions of modules and matrices, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79(1973), 1277-1280 (with R. Wiegand).
10. Decomposition of torsion classes, Math. Japonicae 18(1973), 181-185.
11. Bezout rings and their modules, Proceedings of Oklahoma Ring Theory Conference, Vol. 7 of Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1973, 63-73.
12. Serial Modules and endomorphism rings, Duke Math. J. 41(1974), 889-909 (with W. J. Lewis).
13. Loewy series of modules, J. reine angew. Math. 265(1974), 183-200.
14. Elementary divisor rings and finitely presented modules, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 187(1974), 221-248 (with M. Larsen and W.J. Lewis).
15. Some criteria for Hermite rings and elementary divisor rings, Canad. J. Math. 26(1974), 1380-1383 (with R. Wiegand).
16. Modules over semihereditary Bezout rings, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 46(1974), 211-213.
17. Rings whose finitely generated modules are direct sums of cyclics, J. of Algebra 32(1974), 152-172 (with R. Wiegand).
18. On generalized valuation rings, Michigan Math. J. 21(1974), 405-409.
19. A continuity criterion for functors, Math. Annalen 217(1975), 161-164.
20. Splitting torsion theories over commutative rings, Bulletin of Austr. Math. Soc. 13(1975) , 457-464 (with J. Fuelberth and J. Kuzmanovich).
21. A topological criterion for primary decomposition, Acta. Math. Sci. Hung. 28(1976), 383-387.
22. Arithmetical and semihereditary semigroup rings, Communications in Algebra 8(17) (1980), 1593-1642 (with L. Chouinard and B. Hardy).
23. The splitting of bounded torsion submodules, Communications in Algebra 9(11) (1981), 1161-1214 (with F. Call).
24. Arithmetical semigroup rings, Can. J. Math. 32(1980), 1361-1371 (with B. Hardy).
25. On compactly packed rings, Pacific Journal of Mathematics 97(1981), 197-201 (with J. Pakala).
26. The splitting of finitely generated modules, Osaka J. Math. 22(1985), 433-446 (with J. Pakala).
27. The topology of torsion classes, Communications in Algebra 17(3), 691-701(1989).
28. Experiments with computational linear algebra in the classroom, Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, Vol. 2(1989), p. 568-570.
29. Lab components in post-calculus mathematics courses, Proceedings of Third International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Contributed Papers.
30. Steady state solutions to the Model Problem, Applicable Analysis, Vol. 48 (1993), p. 273-286 (with J. David Logan).
31. On a system of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws with sources, Math. Methods and Models in Applied Sciences, Vol. 3 (1993), p. 341-358 (with J. David Logan).
32. Travelling waves produced by moving sources in a nonlinear reactive-convective system, Math. Methods and Models in Applied Sciences, Vol. 3 (1993), p. 1-18 (with J. David Logan).
33. Subspace projection variants on Newton's Method, Comp. & Maths. with Appls. Vol. 27 (1994), p. 7-17 (with Chris Tiahrt).
34. Stability of travelling waves for a solute transport problem in porous media, Canad. Quart. Appl. Math., Vol. 4 (1996), p. 243-263 (with J. David Logan and Steve Cohn).
35. Uniqueness and numerical recovery of a potential on the real line, Inverse Problems, Vol. 13 (1997), p. 781-800 (with J. Mueller).
36. Solution of an inverse coefficient problem for an ordinary differential equation, Applicable Analysis, Vol. 67 (1997), 11-19 (with A. Hasanov).
37. Numerical methods for an ion transport problem, Applied Numerical Mathematics 32 (2000), 175-193 (with K. Pfabe).
38. Numerical study of reaction-mineralology-porosity changes in porous media, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 127(2002), 149-164 (with J. Logan and M. Petersen).
39. An inverse coefficient problem for an integro-differential equation, Applicable Analysis, 81(2002), 725-752, (with A. Denisov).
40. On properties of matrix of Sinc methods, New Zealand Journal of Mathematics, 32(2003), 1-10 (with I. Abu-Jeib).
41. A new Sinc-Galerkin method for convection-diffusion equations with mixed boundary conditions, Comp. and Math. with Apps., 47(2004), 803-822 (with J. Mueller).
42. Numerical methods for parameter identification in a convection-diffusion equation, ANZIAM J. (E), 660-675 (2004).

Books:

1. Applied Linear Algebra and Matrix Analysis, Undergraduate Mathematics Series, Springer-Verlag, 2007.
2. Applied Linear Algebra and Matrix Analysis, 2nd Ed., Undergraduate Mathematics Series, Springer-Verlag, 2018.