Drs. Clarence Burg, Pat Carmack, and R.B. Lenin, with the Department of Mathematics, along with professors Sinan Kockara, Department of Computer Science, and Scott Meador, Department of Fine Arts and Communications, were recently awarded an internal grant of $25,670 to purchase UCA’s first research computer cluster. The cluster will be accessible to the UCA community during the fall semester of 2010.
Dr. Ramesh Garimella, chair of the Department of Mathematics, was invited by the Texas State University to review their mathematics programs. He was selected as the chair of the Review Committee.
Dr. Weijiu Liu, an assistant professor from the Department of Mathematics, published four papers in peer-reviewed journals in 2009 in collaboration with his students and colleagues. The papers were: Weijiu Liu “Mixing Enhancement in Enzymatic Chemical Reactions” by Optimal Tuning of Flows, Systems and Control Letters, 58, 2009, 834-840. Impact factor: 2.073; Weijiu Liu, Ching Chun Hsin (graduate), and Fusheng Tang, “A Molecular Mathematical Model of Glucose Mobilization and Uptake,” Mathematical Biosciences, 221, 2009, 121-129. Impact factor: 1.148; Luis R. Suazo (undergraduate) and Weijiu Liu, “Controlling the Motion of Charged Particles in a Vacuum Electromagnetic Field from Boundary,” Automatica, 45, 2009, 1012-1019. Impact factor: 3.178; Yuanyou Tan, John M Bush, Weijiu Liu, Fusheng Tang, “Identification of longevity genes with systems biology approaches, Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry2, 2009, 49-56.
Dr. Yu Sun, assistant professor of computer science, received a $3,000 grant from NASA. The grant will fund the project entitled “Development of Methods to Enable Shared Control of Mobile Robot Navigation on Soft Soil.”