ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE

Department of Mathematics

University of Alabama

P.O. Box 870350

Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0350

(205) 348-1976

email: claurie@ua1vm.ua.edu

EDUCATION

B.A. University of Minnesota, 1969, Summa Cum Laude

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1976

Thesis advisor: Professor William B. Arveson

Thesis title: Structural Questions Concerning Commutative Lattices of Invariant Subspaces and Their Associated Operator Algebras

EMPLOYMENT

Professor, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 1995-

Associate Professor, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 1985-1995

Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 1980-1985

Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS 1977-1980

Assistant Professor, Carleton College, Northfield, MN 1976-1977

Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1974-1976

GRANTS AND AWARDS

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1969-1971

N. R. C. Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Dalhousie University), 1977-1980

Project 1074, Research Grants Committee, Univ. of Alabama, Summer 1981

Project 1187, Research Grants Committee, Univ. of Alabama, Summer 1983

National Science Foundation Grant MCS 8404091, May 1984 - May 1986

National Science Foundation Grant DMS 8603178, May 1986 - May 1988

(Travel money only)

EPSCoR travel award, National Science Foundation, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95

Cecil and Ernest Williams Faculty Enhancement Award, Univ. of Alabama

1993

National Science Foundation, Young Scholars - Early Alert,
Grant ESI-9352995, 1994-1996

National Science Foundation, Young Scholars - Early Alert, Grant ESI- 9552942, 1996-1998

Arts and Science Distinguished Teaching Fellow Award, University of

Alabama, 1994-1997

LECTURES AND CONFERENCES (since 1980)

Lecture at Canadian Operator Theory Symposium, Victoria, B.C., May 1980

Lecture at Canadian Operator Theory Symposium, Vancouver, B.C., May 1982

Invited Lecture at Special Session Operator Algebras in Operator Theory,

Annual Meeting of the A.M.S., Denver, CO, January 1983

Seminar Lecture at University of New Hampshire, May 1984

Lecture at Canadian Operator Theory Symposium, Halifax, N.S., May 1984

Lecture at Canadian Operator Theory Symposium, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,

May 1985

Seminar Lecture at University of Toronto, October 1986

Seminar Lecture at University of Waterloo, November 1986

Seminar Lecture at SUNY Buffalo, November 1986

Lecture at Canadian Operator Theory Symposium, Halifax, N.S., May 1990

Co-organized Special Session at regional A.M.S. meeting, Tuscaloosa, AL March 1992

Lecture at Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, Iowa City, IA May 1992

Seminar Lecture at University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 1993

Invited Lecture at North British Functional Analysis Seminar, Lancaster, England, October 1993

Seminar Lecture at Oxford University, Oxford, England, November 1993

Contributed paper, 2001 Spring Meeting Biometrics Society (ENAR)

Seminar Lecture at King's College, London, England, November 1993

Seminar Lecture at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, November 1993

Lecture at Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 1994

Lecture at Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 1994

EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

Undergraduate Education

Curriculum revision of sophomore level Matrix Algebra and Differential Equations courses incorporating the use of computer aided instruction, 1991 - 1994

Supervisor of undergraduate research projects for Computer Based Honors students, 1990-1991, 1991-92, 1994.

Supervisor of undergraduate projects for EPSCoR Scholarship students, 1993, 1994-95.

Faculty advisor for Pi Mu Epsilon, 1990-1994

Participant in NSF sponsored workshops on computer aided instruction

University of New Hampshire, 1991

Auburn University, 1992

St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, 1993

Mathematics Coordinator/Liaison for Foundation Coalition,

Engineering education reform project, supported by

National Science Foundation, 1993-1999.

Chair, MATH 100 Assessment Team (for assessing effectiveness

Of computer instruction for MATH 100), 2000 - 2002

Curriculum revision of courses for pre-service elementary

Education majors - designing a three semester sequence

in collaboration with College of Education, 2003 - 2004

Secondary Education

Served on review panel for National Science Foundation Young Scholars Program-Early Alert, 1992

Co-director National Science Foundation Young Scholars - Early Alert Grant, Probability and Statistics, for junior high girls, 1994-1996 and 1996-1998.