Ph. D. Mathematics, Michigan
State University,
1997
Appointments:
2011-present
Associate Professor with tenure, Arizona
State University
2011 8-12 Visiting Scholar, York University, Canada
2005-2011 Assistant Professor, Arizona State
University
2004-2005
Assistant Professor, University of
Central Arkansas
1997-2004,
Software Engineer, Informative Graphics Corporation, Arizona
1992-1997
Teaching Assistant, Michigan State University
1988-1992
Lecturer, Ocean University of China, China
Awards and Distinctions
Outstanding Research Award from New College of
interdisciplinary arts and sciences, Arizona State University, 2011.
Invited to present a plenary talk at the International
Conference On Nonlinear Operators, Differential Equations And Applications,
July 6-9, 2011, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Invited to present a colloquium talk at Auburn University, April
1995
Professional
Organizations:
American Mathematical Society
Society for Mathematical Biology
Invited Talks and Presentations:
- “Diffusive
Logistic Model Towards Predicting Information Diffusion in Online Social
Networks”, Arizona State University, Math Biology Seminar, Jan. 13, 2012.
- “Diffusive Logistic Model Towards Predicting
Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks” CDM Symposium on
Information Diffusion and Media Impact on Infectious Diseases at York University,
Toronto, Canada, Dec. 6 2011.
- “Spreading speeds and traveling
waves for non-cooperative reaction-diffusion systems” University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, Dec 2, 2011.
- “Spreading speeds and traveling
waves for non-cooperative reaction-diffusion systems” University of Western Ontario, London, Canada Nov. 1 2011.
- “Spreading speeds and traveling
waves for non-cooperative reaction-diffusion systems”
York University, Toronto
Canada, Nov 2, 2011.
- “Spreading speeds and traveling
waves for non-cooperative reaction-diffusion systems”
The Canadian
Mathematical Society Winter
Meeting, Toronto, Dec 10-12,
2011.
- “Spreading speeds and traveling
waves for non-cooperative reaction-diffusion systems”
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Oct. 20, 2011.
- “Spreading
speeds and traveling waves for non-cooperative reaction-diffusion
systems” The 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- ICIAM Vancouver, July 18-Ju.y 22, 2011.
- “Positive Solutions of Nonlinear
Systems of Differential Equations”, International Conference On
Nonlinear Operators, Differential Equations And Applications, July 6-9,
2011, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Plenary talk)
- “Spreading
speeds and traveling waves for non-cooperative reaction-diffusion
systems” the 9th Colloquium
on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations, Szeged, Hungary,
June 28-July 1, 2011
- “Spreading
speeds and traveling waves for non-cooperative reaction-diffusion
systems” MCMSC workshop, June 8, 2011, ASU
- “Spreading
speeds and traveling waves for non-monotone integro-difference
systems” Mathematical biology seminar, April 15, 2011,
ASU
- “Spreading
speeds and traveling waves for non-cooperative reaction-diffusion systems” Los Arizona Days
meeting, April 1, 2011, Tucson, Arizona
- “Speeds
and traveling waves of a model
arising from Epidermal Wound healing”, The 7th International Conference on Differential
Equations and Dynamical
Systems, December 15-18, 2010, Tampa,
Florida.
- “Positive
periodic solutions of a class of singular nonautonomous
systems” The 8th AIMS Conference on Dynamical
Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Dresden University of
Technology, Dresden, Germany,
May 25 - 28, 2010.
- “Mathematical
Analysis of a system of PDE arising from Epidermal Wound Healing” The
8th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and
Applications, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, May 25 - 28,
2010.
- “Spreading speeds and traveling waves
for non-cooperative integro-difference systems”,
The Third Conference on Computational and
Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD3), Bordeaux, France, from May 31 to
June 4, 2010.
- "Traveling waves for delayed reaction-diffusion systems," The SIAMConference on Analysis of Partial Differential
Equations (PD09), Miami, Florida,
December 2009.
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"Traveling waves for delayed
reaction-diffusion equations," The Second International Conference on
Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Population s in Biological Systems, Huntsville, Alabama, October 2009.
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"Traveling waves for delayed
reaction-diffusion equations," International Conference on Asymptotic
Analysis and Infinite-dimensional Dynamical Systems. Hong Kong, June 2009.
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"Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of
Calcium Regulation in Yeast Cells with Extracellular Stimuli," The
Joint Meeting of The Society of Mathematical Biology and The Chinese Society
for mathematical Biology, Hangzhou, China, June 2009.
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"Traveling waves for delayed reaction-diffusion
equations " The 8th Mississippi State UAB Conference on Differential
Equations and Computational Simulations, Mississippi, May 2009.
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"A Mathematical Model for Calcium
Regulation in Yeast Cells ", 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego,
July 2008
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"A Mathematical Model for Calcium
Regulation in Yeast Cells ", Differential Equations and
Applications to Mathematical Biology, Le Havre, France, June 2008.
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"A Mathematical Model for Calcium
Regulation in Yeast Cells ", The 7th AIMS Conference on Dynamical
Systems and Differential Equations, Arlington, Texas, May 2008.
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"A Periodic Boundary
Value Problem ", The 7th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems and
Differential Equations, Arlington, Texas, May 2008.
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"A Mathematical Model for Calcium
Regulation in Yeast Cells ", The Mathematical Biosciences
Institute at the Ohio State University (poster), October 2008.
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"Positive solutions of sublinear elliptic systems" The 7th Mississippi State_UAB Conference on Differential Equations and
Computational Simulations, Birmingham, November 2007.
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"Enhanced Modeling of the regulation of
the tryptophan operon in E. coli," The Joint Annual Meeting of The
Society of Mathematical Biology and The Japanese Society for mathematical
Biology, San Jose, August 2007.
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"Enhanced modeling of the
glucose-insulin system and its applications in insulin therapies", The
4th international conference on mathematical Biology, Wuyishan, China, June 2007,
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"Mathematical Modeling and Qualitative
Analysis of the Glucose-insulin System", Conference on Applications of Analysis to Mathematical Biology, Duke
University, May, 2007.
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"Enhanced modeling of the
glucose-insulin system and its applications in insulin therapies", The
American Mathematical Society Section Meeting, Tucson, April, 2007 (Invited.
·
"A Periodic Boundary Value
Problem", The American Mathematical Society Section Meeting, Oxford,
Ohio, March, 2007.
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"Mathematical Modeling and Qualitative
Analysis of the Glucose-insulin System", The Mathematical Biosciences
Institute at the Ohio State University (poster), March 2007.
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"Mathematical Modeling and Qualitative
Analysis of Insulin Therapies", The 26th
Southeastern-Atlantic regional Conference Differential Equations at The
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, October, 2006.
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"Positive Solutions of Nonlinear Systems
of Differential Equations", International Conference on Recent
Developments in Differential Equations and Applications, Guangzhou University,
China, 7/2006 (invited).
·
"Positive Solutions of Nonlinear Systems
of Differential Equations", Qingdao Technological University,
Qingdao, China, July 2006 (invited).
·
"Positive Solutions of Nonlinear Systems
of Differential Equations", Ocean University of China,
Qingdao, China, July 2006 (invited).
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"Positive Solutions of Nonlinear Systems
of Differential Equations", Lanzhou University of Technology ,
Lanzhou, China, June, 2006 (invited).
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"Positive Solutions of Nonlinear Systems
of Differential Equations", Northwest Normal University,
Lanzhou, China, June, 2006 (invited).
·
"Positive Solutions of Nonlinear Systems
of Differential Equations", International Conference on
Nonlinear and Stochastic Dynamics, Chengdu, China, June, 2006.
·
"Mathematical Modeling and Qualitative
Analysis of the Glucose-insulin System", China-Canada Joint Program on
Modeling Infectious Diseases, Xi'an, China, 5/2006 (invited).
·
"Nonlinear Systems of Differential Equations",The
2006 Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society in San Antonio,
January 2006 (invited).
·
"Positive Solutions of Nonlinear
Equations", The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, November 2005
(invited colloquium).
·
"Positive Solutions of Systems of
Differential Equations", The American Mathematical Society Section
Meeting, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, November 2005.
·
"Positive Solutions of Nonlinear
Equations", The University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
April 2005.
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"Positive Solutions of Nonlinear
Equations", Conference on Differential and Difference Equations
and Applications, Melbourne, Florida, August 2005 (invited).
·
"Positive Solutions of Nonlinear
Equations", The second Mississippi State Conference on Differential
Equations and Computational Simulations, August 2005.
·
"Positive Solutions of Nonlinear
Equations", The 24th Annual Southeastern-Atlantic Regional
Conference on Differential Equations, Chattanooga TN, October 2004.
·
"Existence and Nonexistence of Positive
Periodic solutions for Differential Equations", AIMS' fifth
international conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations at
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, June 2004 (invited).
·
"Existence and nonexistence of Positive
Radial Solutions for quasilinear elliptic
Systems", The 2004 Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society
in Phoenix, January 2004.
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"On the Structure of Positive Radial
Solutions for Quasilinear Equations", The
Symposium on Analysis and PDEs at Purdue University, May 2003.
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"Boundary Value Problems of Ordinary
Differential Equations", Auburn University, April 1995(invited
colloquium).
·
"Positive Solutions of Differential
Equations", The second Mississippi State Conference on Differential
Equations
and Computational Simulations, April 1995.
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"Positive Solutions of Ordinary
Differential Equations", ODE workshop at Ontario, Canada, July
1993.
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"A Survey on Singular Boundary Value
Problems", The Nankai Institute of
Mathematics, China, 9/1990 (invited).
Publication Citations:
As of August 4, 2011, my
research papers have received 1031 SCI citations.
Undergraduate
Research Projects Directed
·
A. Espriu, A. Huseyin and N. Hawes, 3-D Diamond, Won
an Award at the Undergraduate Student Research and Creative
Projects Expo, April, 2011
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E. Figueroa and M. Bryan, Surface to Air Missile, Won
an Award at the Undergraduate Student Research and Creative
Projects Expo, April, 2011
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K. Briglia, Pyramid, Won
an Award at the Undergraduate Student Research and Creative
Projects Expo, April, 2011
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Eight 3-D maple projects based on Linear
Algebra (22 students). Presented at the Undergraduate Student Research and Creative
Projects Expo, April, 2011
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J. Lathrop, Mathematical Modeling and Simulations of Epidermal Wound Healing. Presented in the New College Academic Expo, October, 2010.
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J. Lathrop, Can a Species Keep Pace with a Shifting Climate? Presented in the Undergraduate Student Research and Creative
Projects Expo, April, 2010.
·
The class of Linear Algebra Spring 2010 (23 students),
Computer Simulations of 3D
objects using Linear Algebra. Presented at the
Undergraduate
Student Research and Creative Projects Expo,
April, 2010.
·
R. Bahr, J. Bonham, J. Doggett, J. Guan, J. Lathrop,
Computations of Speeds of Traveling Waves with Allee
Effects. Presented at the New College Academic Expo at the West campus,
October, 2009.
·
R. Bahr, J. Bonham and E. Jonson and A. Whiting,
Simulations of biological models using a modifiable Matlab
User Interface, Spring 2009. Won the 3rd Place Award in Undergraduate Student Research and Creative
Projects Expo—Spring 2009 at the New College of Interdisciplinary of Arts and Sciences at ASU)
·
C. Lagarda, K. Morse
and A. Waldvogel, Maple Animation: Making Math Interactive, Spring 2008. Won the First Place Award in Undergraduate Student Research and Creative
Projects Expo—Spring 2008 at the New College of Interdisciplinary of Arts and Sciences at ASU)
·
Katie Harris and Rachel Wagner, Computer
simulations of mathematical models of insulins for
type II diabetics, Fall 2007.
·
Che Wei Chang, A Mathematical Modeling
fo a correlation between Alzheimer’s Disease and
Diabetes. Spring 2007.
·
Katie
R. Harris, Computer Simulations of Mathematical Models of Combinations of Insulins for Type I Diabetic. Fall 2006.
·
Che Wei Chang,
An Improvement of MATLAB Simulation of a Mathematical Model for Type 2
Diabetes. Fall 2006.
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John Drane,
Understanding Brief Calculus with Maple, Spring 2006.
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McKenna Budden,
Applications of systems of linear equations to traffic flow, Fall 2005
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Ethena Hereth and Jason Norton, Positive solutions of nonlinear
polynomials (with R. Garimella), Spring
2005
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Fitsum Tilahun, Positive Periodic solutions of differential
equations, Fall 2004
Service:
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New College of
Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, member of NCUIRE review
committee, Fall 2010-present.
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Dept. of Mathematical Sciences & Applied
Computing, chair of committee to propose new BS degree in Applied Math, Fall
2005-Fall 2007.
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Dept. of Mathematical Sciences & Applied
Computing, member of committee to propose new BS degree in Applied Math, Fall
2007-present.
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New College of Interdisciplinary Arts &
Sciences, member of standards Committee, Fall 2005-Fall 2008
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Dept. of Mathematical Sciences & Applied
Computing, member of committee to write Program Assessment criteria, Fall
2005-Present
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Organized CDM Symposium on Information Diffusion and Media
Impact on Infectious Diseases at York University, Toronto, Canada, Dec. 6 2011.
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MNS Personnel Committee for Fall 2012.
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Department Liaison to the Mathematical
Association of America (MAA), 2008 – Present
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Assistant Editor, Mathematical Biosciences and
Engineering (MBE), 2004-2011
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Associate Editor, Mathematical Biosciences and
Engineering (MBE), 2010-present
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Associate Editor, Advances in Differential
Equations and Control Processes, 2007-present
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Associate Editor, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics,
2009-present
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Proposal Reviewer for the Chilean Research Fund
Council (FONDECYT), 2007
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Proposal Reviewer for the Louisiana Board of
Regents Research Competitiveness Subprogram (RCS) , 2012
Served as a reviewer for the
following 62 journals:
Acta Mathematicae Applicatae
Sinica (English Series), China
Advances in Difference
Equations, USA
Abstract and Applied Analysis,
USA
Applied Mathematics Letters, USA
Applied Mathematics and
Computation, USA
Applied Mathematics-A Journal of Chinese Universities,
China
Applicable Analysis, USA
Boundary Value problems, USA
Bulletin of the Institute of
Mathematics Academia Sinica New Series, Taiwan
Chinese Annals of Mathematics, China
Clinical Medicine: Endocrinology and Diabetes, New
Zealand
Computers & Mathematics with Applications, USA
Computer Methods and Programs in
Biomedicine, USA
Communications on Applied
Nonlinear Analysis, USA
Communications in Applied Analysis, USA
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical
Simulations, USA
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and
Society, USA,
Discrete and Continuous
Dynamical Systems-Series A, USA
Discrete and Continuous
Dynamical Systems-Series B, USA
Discrete and Continuous
Dynamical Systems-Series S, USA
Dynamical Systems: An International Journal, UK
Dynamic
Systems and Applications, USA
Dynamics of Partial Differential
Equations, USA
Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, USA
Fixed Point Theory, Romania,
Journal of Applied Mathematics
& Computing, Korea
Journal of the Franklin
Institute, USA
Journal of Biological Systems,
USA
Journal of Nonlinear Science,
USA
IMA
Journal of Applied Mathematics, UK
International Journal of Computer Mathematics, UK
International Journal of Modern
Mathematics, USA
International Journal of
Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, USA
International Journal of Biomathematics, SINGAPORE
ISRN(
International Scholarly
Research Network)Mathematical
Analysis, USA
Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, India
Journal of Computational and
Applied Mathematics, USA
Journal of Mathematical Analysis
and Applications, USA
Journal of Theoretical Biology, USA
Open Mathematics Journal, USA
Oxford University Press (book
proposal), UK
Mathematical Reviews of the
American Mathematical Society, USA
Mathematical and Computer
Modeling, USA
Mathematics and Computers in
Simulation, USA
Mathematical Biosciences and
Engineering, USA
Mathematical Communications, Croatia
Mathematical
Methods in the Applied Sciences, USA
Mathematical
Problems in Engineering, USA
Matemática
Contemporânea, Brazil
Nonlinear Analysis, TMA, USA
Nonlinear
Analysis Series B: Real World Applications, USA
Nonlnear
Dynamics, Netherlands
London Mathematical Society, UK
Proceedings of the American
Mathematical Society, USA
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, UK
Proceedings of the Indian
Academy of Sciences (Mathematical Sciences), India
Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, USA
Royal Society of Edinburgh Proceedings A, UK
Sarajevo
Journal of Mathematics, Bosnia
and Herzegovina
Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics, China
Turkish Journal of mathematics,
Turkey
Zentralblatt MATH, Europe