Research Grants Awarded to Department of Mathematics Faculty

Dr. Vasilios Alexiades

• 9/1/2002 — Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations — National Science Foundation
• 7/1/2003 — Mathematical Models of Dynamics of Visual Transduction — Vanderbilt University
• 7/1/2004 — Vanderbilt Meharry Center for Modeling Complex Signaling Systems — Vanderbilt University
• 8/1/2008 — Grid Based Modeling of Electrical Propagation in Excitable Tissue — DHHS-NIH
• 8/15/2010 — UT/ORNL Graduate Student Agreement Request for George Butler in Mathematic — UT-Battelle
• 9/1/2013 — Real time Chemotaxis in Commensal Plant-Microbe Associations — National Science Foundation

Dr. Theodora Bourni

• 4/1/2018 — 2018 John Barrett Memorial Lectures — National Science Foundation

Dr. Dustin Cartwright

• 2/8/2016 — Tropical complexes and moduli of curves — US Defense

Dr. Xia Chen

• 7/1/2004 — Exponential Asymptotics in Sample Path Intersection and Related Problems — National Science Foundation
• 9/1/2007 — High Moment Asymptotics and its Applications in Intersection Local Times and Related Models — National Science Foundation
• 9/1/2012 — Random walk in random media — Simons Foundation

Dr. Yu-Ting Chen

• 9/1/2017 — Stochastic PDEs with non-Lipschitz noise coefficients and related aspects — Simons Foundation

Dr. Jeneva Clark

• 1/1/2017 — Let’s Get Physical! Teaching Math Through the Lens of Physics — TN Department of Education
• 12/1/2018 — CoMInDS Workshop — Mathematica Association of America
• 1/1/2019 — Galvanizing Interdisciplinary STEM in Tennessee (GIST) — Tennessee STEM Innovation Network and Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS)

Dr. James Conant

• 7/1/2003 — Invariants in Low Dimensional Topology — National Science Foundation
• 4/1/2006 — 2006 Barrett Lectures in Topology — National Science Foundation
• 6/1/2006 — Invariants in Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory — National Science Foundation

Dr. Robert Daverman

• 7/1/2006 — Office of the Secretary for the American Mathematical Society — American Math Society
• 7/1/2007 — Office of the Secretary for the American Mathematical Society — American Math Society
• 7/1/2008 — Office of the Secretary for the American Mathematical Society — American Math Society
• 7/1/2009 — Office of the Secretary for the American Mathematical Society — American Math Society
• 7/1/2010 — 2010-2011 Annual Service Agreement to the American Mathematical Society — American Math Society
• 7/1/2011 — AMERICAN MATH SOCIETY – DAVERMAN — American Math Society
• 8/1/2012 — AMERICAN MATH SOCIETY – DAVERMAN — American Math Society

Dr. Judy Day

• 9/15/2011 — Modeling and Adaptive Control of Complex Immune Responses — National Science Foundation
• 8/9/2013 — Indices of Bioenergy Sustainability — UT-Battelle

Dr. Jochen Denzler

• 7/1/2011 — Simons Collaboration Grant — Simons Foundation

Dr. Jerzy Dydak

• 7/1/2005 — International Topology Conference Bedlewo 2005 — National Science Foundation
• 9/1/2005 — Problems in Extension Theory — US-Israel Binational Scienc

Dr. Nina Fefferman

• 9/1/2016 — EAGER: Collaborative Research: Algorithmic Framework for Anomaly Detection in Interdependent Networks — National Science Foundation

Dr. Xiaobing Feng

• 5/1/2001 — Barrett Lectures New Direction and Developments in Computational Mathematics — National Science Foundation
• 6/1/2004 — Computational Challenges in Geometrical Flows: Numerical Methods and Analysis, Algorithmic Development and Software Engineering — National Science Foundation
• 7/1/2007 — International Workshop on Computational Methods in Geosciences — National Science Foundation
• 7/15/2007 — Numerical Methods and Algorithms for Second Order Fully Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations — National Science Foundation
• 8/15/2010 — Numerical Methods and Algorithms for Fully Nonlinear Second Order Evolution Equations with Applications — National Science Foundation
• 2/1/2012 — Recent Developments in Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations — National Science Foundation
• 5/1/2012 — 2012 John Barrett Lectures: Recent Developments in Finite Element Discontinuous Galerkin Methods. — University of Minnesota
• 1/2/2013 — New Direction Professorship — University of Minnesota
• 8/15/2013 — Novel Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Second Order Fully Non — National Science Foundation
• 8/15/2018 — Numerical Simulation of Radiative Transport Equations — UT-Battelle

Dr. Luis Finotti

• 5/1/2019 — Barrett Lectures 2019: Recent Advancements in Number Theory — National Science Foundation

Dr. Marie Jameson

• 5/1/2019 — (IMA) Barrett Lectures 2019: Recent Advancements in Number Theory — University of Minnesota

Dr. Bo Guan

• 6/1/2002 — Fully Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations in Differential Geometry — National Science Foundation

Dr. Cory Hauck

• 9/15/2012 — Optimization-Based Moment Models for Multiscale Kinetic Equations — National Science Foundation
• 5/30/2019 — Adaptive velocity grids for kinetic equations — Los Alamos National Lab

Dr. Don Hinton

• 1/1/2014 — Undergraduate Mathematics Conference — Mathematical Assoc of America 
• 4/1/2015 — Undergraduate Mathematics Conference — Mathematical Assoc of America 

Dr. Ohannes Karakashian

• 6/1/2004 — Analysis and Applications of the Discontinuous Galerkin Method — National Science Foundation
• 8/1/2012 — Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin methods and Applications — National Science Foundation
• 9/19/2013 — Stochastic multi-level methods for uncertainty quantification — UT-Battelle

Dr. Mathew Langford

• 5/1/2018 — 2018 Barrett Lectures — University of Minnesota

Dr. Suzanne Lenhart

• 5/1/2000 — RET Activity with the REU Program at The University of Tennessee — National Science Foundation
• 5/1/2003 — Mathematical REU Site at The University of Tennessee — National Science Foundation
• 9/1/2005 — Collaborative Research: Spatial Theory for Renewable Resource Economics — National Science Foundation
• 9/1/2008 — Optimal Control Studies for Cholera (Subcontract to Murray State University) — Murray State Univ
• 8/1/2013 — Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations 2013 — National Science Foundation
• 8/1/2014 — Environmental Components in Disease Models — NIH
• 1/1/2015 — Environmental Components in Disease Models — North Carolina State Univ 
• 5/29/2015 (Co-PI) — Math Counts 3 — Campbell County Schools-Math Counts Lenh

Dr. Joan Lind

• 7/1/2011 — Phases and Deformations of Loewner Evolutions — National Science Foundation
• 1/1/2014 — 2014 Barrett Lectures — National Science Foundation

Dr. Vasileios Maroulas

• 9/1/2013 — Large deviations for stochastic systems and applications — Simons Foundation 
• 8/1/2014 — GO! PGM Indices of Bioenergy Sustainability — UT-Battelle
• 1/8/2015 — Analyzing Data-Specific Model-Selection Criteria — UT-Battelle
• 2/15/2015 — A distributed sparsity-cognizant framework for dynamic tracking of multiple threats — Univ of Texas @ Arlington 
• 3/1/2015 — The 2015 John Barrett Memorial Lectures: Stochastic Filtering, Computations and Applications — Univ of Minnesota IMA 
• 3/15/2015 — The 2015 John Barrett Memorial Lectures — National Science Foundation
• 2/15/2016 — A distributed sparsity-cognizant framework for dynamic tracking of multiple threats — Univ of Texas @ Arlington
• 4/1/2017 — The 2017 John Barrett Memorial Lectures: Mathematical Foundations of Data Sciences — National Science Foundation
• 4/1/2017 — The 2017 John Barrett Memorial Lectures: Mathematical Foundations of Data Sciences — Univ of Minnesota IMA 
• 7/1/2017 — 3.1 Modeling of Complex Systems: Construction of distributions on complex topological spaces of signals and their application to machine learning and state estimation — Army
• 10/1/2017 — Topological Learning for EEG Data — Thor Industries, Inc.
• 8/15/2018 — Online spatiotemporal filtering and Bayesian topology for tracking in dynamically designed sensor networks — National Science Foundation

Dr. Tadele Mengesha

• 8/1/2014 — Mathematical Theory of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Models — National Science Foundation
• 9/1/2015 — Workshop for Nonlocal Models in Mathematics, Computation, Science, and Engineering — National Science Foundation
• 8/15/2016 — Mathematical Analysis on Peridynamic Models — National Science Foundation

Dr. Remus Nicoara

• 9/1/2012 — The Tenth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium — National Science Foundation

Dr. Tuoc Phan

• 2/11/2016 — The 46th John Barrett Memorial Lectures – Modeling and Analysis of Nonlinear PDE Models in Spatial Ecology — University of Minnesota

Dr. Conrad Plaut

• 1/1/2002 — Appalachian Scholars in Computer Science and Mathematics — National Science Foundation
• 8/1/2005 — EMSW21-MCTP – Math Honors Program — National Science Foundation
• 10/1/2006 — REU Site in Mathematics at The University of Tennessee — National Science Foundation
• 4/15/2013 — Barrett Lectures — National Science Foundation
• 10/13/2014 — Moment methods for transport equations — UT-Battelle
• 1/1/2015 — Moment Methods for Kinetic Equations — UT-Battelle
• 1/8/2015 — Analyzing Data-Specific Model-Selection Criteria — UT-Battelle
• 8/1/2016 — Smoky Great Plains Geometry Conference 2016 — National Science Foundation
• 8/1/2016 — Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (N. Dexter) — UT-Battelle
• 8/16/2017 — Analysis of asymptotic limits of hyperbolic relaxation laws — UT-Battelle
• 6/1/2018 — Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Particle Correlation — UT-Battelle

Dr. Stefan Richter

• 6/15/2000 — Operator inequalities, reproducing kernels, and invariant subspaces — National Science Foundation
• 5/1/2003 — Invariant Subspaces in Spaces of Analytic Functions — National Science Foundation
• 4/1/2005 — Southeastern Analysis Meeting — National Science Foundation
• 5/1/2006 — Analysis on Spaces of Analytic Functions — National Science Foundation
• 3/15/2007 — Southeastern Analysis Meeting — National Science Foundation
• 10/1/2009 — Operator Theory and Function Theory for the Unit Ball of C^d — National Science Foundation
• 2/1/2013 — A Conference on Hilbert Function spaces — National Science Foundation
• 2/1/2017 — Southeastern Analysis Meeting 2017 — National Science Foundation
• 4/1/2017 — Hilbert Function Spaces 2017 — National Science Foundation

Dr. Jan Rosinski

• 9/1/2002 — Isotropic Stable Random Fields and Infinite Dimensional Stochastic Integrals — National Science Foundation
• 5/7/2008 — Infinitely Divisible Processes: Stationarity, Dependence Structure and Sample Paths — NSA
• 5/15/2010 — Support for the US Participants of the 6th Levy Conference — National Science Foundation
• 9/1/2013 — Levy systems and non-Gaussian chaos — Simons Foundation 

Dr. Abner Salgado

• 8/15/2014 — Numerical Analysis of Selected Variational and Quasi-variational Inequalities — National Science Foundation
• 8/1/2017 — Approximation of Singular Solutions to Nonlocal and Nonlinear Models — National Science Foundation
• 4/1/2020 — The 50th John Barrett Memorial Lectures: A3N2M: Approximation, Applications, and Analysis of Nonlocal, Nonlinear Models — National Science Foundation

Dr. Timothy Schulze

• 8/1/2001 — Continum Modeling and Analysis of Epitaxial Film Growth — National Science Foundation
• 10/1/2001 — Numerical Algorithms That Improve Efficiency of Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations — PRINCETON UNIVERSITY –
• 9/15/2003 — Integrated Multiscale Modeling of Molecular Computing Devices — Department of Energy
• 8/15/2004 — The Mushy-Zone Free-Boundary Problem — National Science Foundation
• 9/12/2005 — Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics at University of California at Los Angeles — UCLA 
• 8/15/2007 — Fast Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Crystal Growth and Evolution — National Science Foundation
• 9/1/2007 — Multi-Scale Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science — National Science Foundation
• 7/1/2009 — FRG: Collaborative Research: Modeling and Computation of Crystalline Nanostructures — National Science Foundation
• 10/1/2011 — Kinetic Monte Carlo modeling and simulation of grain and phase boundaries— National Science Foundation
• 6/15/2016 — Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Nanoalloy Crystal Growth  — National Science Foundation

Dr. Fernando Schwartz Weinberger

• 2/15/2011 — Barrett Lectures — National Science Foundation

Dr. Kenneth Stephenson

• 7/23/2001 — Collaborative Research: Computational Conformal Mapping and Scientific Visualization — National Science Foundation
• 6/15/2006 — Computational Uniformization — National Science Foundation
• 6/1/2007 — Complex Analysis Projects with Accompanying Applets — National Science Foundation
• 1/1/2010 — 2010 Barrett Memorial Lectures, Discrete Differential Geometry and Applications — University of Minnesota
• 4/15/2010 — The 2010 Barrett Lectures: Discrete Differential Geometry and Applications — National Science Foundation
• 9/1/2011 — Collaborative Research in Circle Packing and Discrete Conformal Geometry — Simons Foundatiion 

Dr. Morwen Thistlethwaite

• 8/15/2007 — Scientific Computing Research Environments for the Mathematical Sciences— National Science Foundation
• 7/1/2011 — Deformations of hyperbolic 3-manifold groups and related topics — Simons Foundation

Dr. Grozdena Todorova

• 5/1/2003 — Dynamics of Nonlinear Wave Equations — National Science Foundation
• 4/1/2005 — Barrett Lectures: New Developments in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations— National Science Foundation

Dr. Clayton Webster

• 9/15/2016 — Collaborative research: Mathematical methods for optimal polynomial recovery of high-dimensional systems from sparse and noisy data — National Science Foundation

Dr. Steven Wise

• 9/15/2008 — Collaborative Research: Multiscale Modeling of Solid Tumor Growth — National Science Foundation
• 7/15/2011 — Collaborative Research: Stable and Efficient Convexity Splitting Schemes for Bistable Gradient PDEs — National Science Foundation
• 9/1/2014 — Efficient, Adaptive, and Convergent Numerical Methods for Phase Field and Phase Field Crystal Equations with Applications — National Science Foundation
• 6/15/2017 — Modeling and Simulation of Ion Transport in Polymer Systems and Novel Discrete Ordinate Methods for Modeling Radiation Transport via Kinetic Equations. — UT-Battelle
• 7/21/2017 — Physics-Based, self-consistent simulation of neutron reflectivity for thin films of block copolymers with Incorporated nanaparticles — UT-Battelle
• 5/28/2018 — Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization and Regularized Problems Expressed via Steady of Dynamical Systems — UT-Battelle
• 1/1/2019 — Multi-level approximations for computing statistics in molecular dynamics calculations — UT-Battelle

Dr. Yulong Xing

• 12/9/2004 — Development of high-order accurate numerical methods for the shallow-water equations and other hyperbolic conversation laws with source terms — National Science Foundation

Dr. Jie Xiong

• 4/4/2002 — Some Particle Systems With Branching and Interaction — NSA
• 1/1/2009 — The 2009 John H. Barrett Memorial Lectures — National Science Foundation
• 8/1/2009 — Some Related problems for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations & Backward Stochastic Differential Equations — National Science Foundation