Applied Mathematics at the University of Nevada Reno

Applied Mathematics Faculty

PH.D.: University of Rochester, 1967

RESEARCH AREA: Differential equations, non-linear analysis (applied math)

GRANTS: One NSF grant, several institutional and Eisenhower grants.

Foundation Professor Chaitan Gupta continued his highly influential and productive research in ordinary differential equations with many coauthors from all over the world. He is in great demand as a referee for papers in the area of multi-point boundary value problems because of his seminal work on multi-point non-linear boundary value problems. He received a Foster Fellowship at the Department of State for 1999-2001. He is also a leader in web based math instruction, homework, quiz, and testing for the department. NOTE: Although Professor Gupta is retiring this year, he still intends to remain active in research, and also considers himself a potential doctoral dissertation adviser for UNR math students.

NAME: Satoko KURITA

PH.D.: University of Wyoming, 2002

RESEARCH AREA: Stochastic modeling, flow through porous media (applied math)

NUMBER OF REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: 2

GRANTS: 1 NSF grants totaling approximately $58,000.

Stochastic differential equations, numerical analysis, flow in porous media and bioremediation.

NAME: Jeff MORTENSEN

PH.D.: UC Davis, 1993

RESEARCH AREA: Analysis, differential equations (applied math)

NUMBER OF REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: 7

GRANTS: Two joint NSF grants in math education

Lecturer Jeff Mortensen is working on extending vector calculus results to the fractional calculus setting. He has also worked on fractional differential equations, specifically the fractional advection dispersion equation. He also works on other aspects of partial differential equations (PDEs), such as nonlinear PDEs and the Boussinesq equation.

NAME: Eric OLSON

PH.D.: Indiana University, 1999

RESEARCH AREA: Navier Stokes equations, dynamical systems, turbulence modeling (applied math)

NUMBER OF REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: 11

GRANTS: 2 NSF grants totaling approximately $130,000, plus one JFRA (junior faculty research award) from UNR.

MASTERS STUDENTS SUPERVISED: 1

Assistant Professor Eric Olson is doing research in the areas of turbulence, Navier-Stokes equations, global attractors, continuous data assimilation and in-situ bioremediation of contaminated soil. He is the founder of the department's 42 processor Beowulf computing cluster which will be essential in his $58,000 NSF EPSCOR grant from Advanced Computing in the Environmental Sciences program with UNR postdoc Satoko Kurita.

NAME: Mark PINSKY

PH.D.: Dnepropetrovsk University, Ukraine, 1975 (applied mathematics and mechanics)

RESEARCH AREA: Nonlinear dynamics, control systems, partial differential equations (applied math)

NUMBER OF REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: more than 100

GRANTS: Several, from NSF, NASA, and the National Research Counsel, totaling approximately $200,000.

MASTERS STUDENTS SUPERVISED: 3, plus several Masters and Ph.D. students supervised while teaching in Soviet Union.

Professor Mark Pinsky lists his research areas as follows: Modeling, simulation, control, estimation and of nonlinear systems. Multicsale computing. Asymptotic and numerical techniques. Stability analysis and control of partially uncertain dynamical systems. Robust control of bifurcation and chaos phenomena. Robust, impulsive and observation control of nonlinear systems. Robust estimation and forecast of partly uncertain nonlinear systems.

NAME: Thomas QUINT

PH.D.: Stanford University, 1987 (operations research)

RESEARCH AREA: Game theory, graph theory (applied math)

NUMBER OF REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: 28

MASTERS STUDENTS SUPERVISED: 2

Professor Thomas Quint is an internationally known game theorist, currently working on problems in the theory of matching games, indices of power, and the theory of money. He spent his last sabbatical visiting the Cowles Foundation at Yale University, and gave an invited plenary talk during the Summer Festival of Game Theory in 2003. His paper "The Shapley-Scarf Economy -- the Case of Multiple Types of Indivisible Good" (jointly authored with H. Konishi and J. Wako) was the fourth most requested paper from the Journal of Mathematical Economics in 2001. Professor Quint has also jointly authored several papers in graph theory.

NAME: Aleksey TELYAKOVSKIY

PH.D.: University of Wyoming, 2002

RESEARCH AREA: Numerical methods, differential equations (applied math)

NUMBER OF REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: 13

GRANTS: One NSF grant (with two others) for approximately $100,000; also received a JFRA (junior faculty research award) from UNR.

MASTERS STUDENTS SUPERVISED: 1, plus being a co-advisor for a postdoctoral researcher at UNR.

Assistant Professor Aleksey Telyakovskiy is working in the areas of applied mathematics and numerical analysis. His research is related to the development of numerical methods in petroleum reservoir modeling and groundwater flow modeling, the construction of approximate solutions to nonlinear diffusion equations appearing in groundwater flow modeling and the analysis of their asymptotic behavior. He is PI on a $99,537 NSF project titled `New approaches to the analytical solution of variable density flows'. To work on this grant, he spent an academic year visiting the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences at UNR. There, he has studied salt-water intrusion in coastal aquifers. He gave multiple seminars and conference presentations. He supervised two funded undergraduate research projects, one master student and was co-advisor of a postdoctoral researcher.

Last Updated: Fri May 23 09:42:30 PDT 2008