GRADUATE EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, R.I.; 1980.

Optimal control, dynamic game theory, analytical and numerical methods in  systems analysis and control.

Numerical solution of partial differential equations.

Mathematical modeling and analysis of systems involving continuum mechanics  and related issues.

Optimal control and identification for systems governed by partial differential  equations, with applications to problems of groundwater contamination and  remediation, dynamic elasticity, and atmospheric transport and diffusion.

Analysis, stability and control of stochastic systems, with applications.

Library representative for the academic year 1995-1996.

Advisor for a M. Sc. thesis in Applied Mathematics.  Student:  E.P. Sarris.  Degree  awarded in 1994.  Thesis title:  Issues in the optimal control of Goursat systems.

Advisor for a Ph.D. thesis in Mechanical Engineering (co-advisor:  Prof. Joey  Parker of Mech. Eng.).  Student:  W.S. Choi.  Degree awarded in 1991.  Thesis  title:  Numerical solution of two classes of stochastic optimal control problems.

Examiner for several M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis in Mechanical Engineering, and for  one M.Sc. thesis in Mineral Engineering.

Office Building Committee, Spring 1997.

Committee for modifications in the Ph.D. programs, Spring 1998.

Referee for several journals, including “Transactions of the Americal Mathematical  Society”, “Systems and Control Letters”, “Applied Mathematics and  Optimization”, “Computers and Mathematics with Applications”.

Referee for several conferences, including the “IEEE Conference on Decision and  Control”, the “Conference on Information Sciences and Systems”, and the  “Allerton Conference”.

Reviewer for “Mathematical Reviews”.