Research
The department is active in many research areas. Students are involved in most of the projects. Below are the major projects currently underway.
Mathematics of Materials
Faculty: Dr. Curtis Clemons, Dr. Dmitry Golovaty, Dr. Kevin Kreider, Dr. Patrick Wilber, Dr. Joseph Wilder, Dr. Gerald Young
Corrosion
- Crevice Corrosion
- Galvanic Corrosion
- Microbially Induced Corrosion
- Coatings
- Risk Assessment
Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes
Biofilms
Fuel Cells
- Photoelectrochemical Fuel Cells
- Microbial Fuel Cells
Other
- Dipcoating
- Acid Mine Drainage Remediation
- Unsteady Propagation of Reaction Fronts in Frontal Polymerization
- Multi-Scale Modeling, Simulations and Experiments of Coating Growth on Nanofibers
- Two-dimensional heat transfer and thermal stress analysis in float glass processing
- Modeling of calcium carbonate precipitation in natural karst environments under hydrodynamic and chemical kinetic control
Algebra, Number Theory, Combinatorics, Topology, and Game Theory
Faculty: Dr. J.P. Cossey, Dr. Stefan Forcey, Dr. Jeffrery Riedl, Dr. Hung Ngoc Nguyen
- Representation Theory of Finite Groups over Fields of Positive Characteristic
- The Generalized Catalan Numbers
- The Geometric Combinatorics of Pseudographs and Beyond
- Character degrees and conjugacy class sizes of finite groups
Analysis, PDEs, Dynamical systems
Faculty: Dr. Curtis Clemons, Dr. Dmitry Golovaty, Dr. Truyen Nguyen, Dr Patrick Wilber
Education in Mathematics
Faculty: Dr. Laurie Dunlap, Dr. Ali Hajjafar, Dr. Antonio Quesada, Dr. Linda Saliga, Dr. Ethel Wheland
- The integration of hand-held graphing technology (HHGT) in the teaching and learning of mathematics.
- The effectiveness of required on-line homework assignments in College Algebra
Current and recent funded projects in the department:
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FY11 Project 4A Model for Crevice Corrosion Damage Evolution for Fe-Cr-Ni-Mo Alloys, Payer, Young, Clemons, Golovaty, Kreider, DOD Office of Corrosion Policy and Oversight, $130,000, 7/11-12/12.
- Modeling of Nonbonded Interactions in Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes, Golovaty and Wilber, NSF DMS-1009849, $186,420, 7/10-6/13.
- Calculus of Variations and Hamilton-Jacobi Equations in the Wasserstein Space, T. Nguyen, NSF DMS 0901449, $70,907, 9/09-8/12.
- Collaborative Research: Polymeric Drug Delivery Systems and Biofilms in the Lung, Young, Youngs, Lopina, Clemons, Wilber, Ely, Milsted, Yun, Cannon, Leid, NIH 3ROI GM086895, $1,320,698, 8/08-6/12.
- Choose Ohio First Scholarship Program: Student Success in Mathematics, Wilder and others, Ohio Board of Regents, $846,000, 7/08-6/12.
- Collaborative Research: Transformative Model of STEM Education for First-year Students at an Urban-commuter Campus, Wheland and others, DUE 0920453, $130,070, 10/09-6/12.
- Collaborative Research: Polymeric Drug Delivery Systems and Biofilms in the Lung, Young, Clemons, Kreider, Wilber and others, NIH Supplement 3ROI GM086895-02S12$223,787, 6/10-5/11.
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