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Dr. Christopher Keil McCord

Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Northern Illinois University

DeKalb, Illinois 60115-2895

Phone: (815) 762-4968

Email: Christopher.k.mccord@gmail.com

EDUCATION

B.S. Mathematics & Physics Bowling Green State University 1981

Ph. D. Mathematics University of Wisconsin-Madison 1986

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Dean College of Liberal Arts &

Sciences

Northern Illinois

University

2007 –

Associate Dean for

Graduate Affairs

McMicken College of Arts &

Sciences

University of Cincinnati 2003 – 2007

Interim Head Department of Economics University of Cincinnati 2001 – 2003

Chair, Faculty

Executive Board

Taft Memorial Fund University of Cincinnati 1998 – 2003

Director Preparing Future Faculty

Program

University of Cincinnati 1994 – 1998

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Professor Northern Illinois University 2007 –

Professor University of Cincinnati 1998 – 2007

Associate Professor with tenure University of Cincinnati 1992 – 1998

Assistant Professor University of Cincinnati 1986 – 1992

VISITING POSITIONS

Visiting Professor UFR de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées Spring, 1996

Université des Sciences et Technologie, Lille

Visiting Professor Dept of Mechanical, Industrial & Nuclear Engineering 2000 – 2001

University of Cincinnati

HONORS & AWARDS

Taft Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, 1998

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Northern Illinois University, 2007 – present

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is the NIU’s largest college, with 18 departments and 8

centers. The college’s 360 faculty, 100 instructors and 200 staff members serve the college’s

6,000 undergraduate majors and 1,200 graduate students, as well as serving all of the 16,000

NIU undergraduates. The college has a budget of approximately $68,000,000, including

$14,000,000 in external funding.

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Student Success: led the college’s commitment to student engagement and curricular

innovation:

Ensured that every unit in the college provides engaged learning opportunities for their

students; secured an endowment to support engagement activities

Created a humanities internship coordinator, now growing towards a college-wide

internship program; increased enrollment in internship courses and secured an

endowment to support internships

Helped to consolidate and expand funding programs to support engaged learning

Worked with central offices to fully engage college faculty in early-warning and

intervention programs for at-risk students

Leading a pilot effort to integrate college- and unit-level academic advising

Helped create new study abroad programs and field schools

Created a "math emporium" to improve success in college algebra

Secured funding to expand the University Writing Center

Fiscal & Enrollment Management: Established transparency and mission-driven, data-

informed decision-making as the fundamentals of managing budgets and enrollments

Developed a set of tools and policies to support enrollment forecasting and active

management of course staffing; model forecasts course enrollments with r2 = .9.

Changed hiring practices to ensure that hiring is directed to curricular and enrollment

needs; resulting in the redistribution between units of approximately 5% of the college's

faculty positions

Restructured the college’s instructional staffing budgeting process; provided units with

greater flexibility in deploying budgets while providing greater predictability on budget

amounts; eliminated an associate dean position as a result of the streamlined process.

Centralized technical support services and IT budgets to provide greater support and

efficiency; improved services while reducing operating costs by approximately 10 - 15%

and moving toward a savings in personnel costs of 25%.

Interdisciplinary Efforts: Promoted interdisciplinary efforts, both those organized around

formal interdisciplinary units and those that cross unit boundaries.

Provided incentives for joint appointments across unit and college boundaries, enabling

20 joint appointments in the last three years.

Led the development of the university’s first two interdisciplinary degree programs,

Environmental Studies and Community Leadership & Civic Engagement. In their second

year since formal approval, the two programs now have 180 declared majors.

Created the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability & Energy, the

Center for Non-Governmental Organization Leadership & Development (NGOLD) and

the Center for Secondary Science and Mathematics Education.

Created the School of Public and Global Affairs, a unique structure within the college

that coordinates the efforts of Public Administration, Political Science, Economics and

NGOLD

Catalyzed revitalization of the interdisciplinary Center for Biochemical & Biophysical

Studies as a hub for interdisciplinary collaborative research.

Spearheaded revision of college and university policies that support interdisciplinary

centers and joint appointments.

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Regional & Global Engagement: Strongly support and advance NIU's engagement mission,

both in the northern Illinois region and internationally:

Recruited regional employers and partners to CLAS Advisory Council.

Promoting internships with regional employers; using the Advisory Council to build

connections.

Supported development of a Professional Development School partnership with DeKalb

High School.

Co-PI on two grants to support Rockford Public Schools.

Facilitated creation of a degree completion program for AAS recipients in partnership

with regional community colleges.

Facilitated partnership agreements with universities and research institutions in Southeast

Asia and Latin America.

Provided matching funds to support renewal of Title VI National Resource Center award

for Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

Funded and advocated for Study Abroad programs in 11 countries.

Participated in higher education delegations to Indonesia and Myanmar (the latter the first

such from the US to enter Myanmar).

Presenter at US Department of Education summit on US-Indonesia Higher Education.

Negotiated dual-degree program agreements with universities in China, Malaysia,

Indonesia and Thailand.

Secured funding from governments of Indonesia and Thailand for student and faculty

exchanges.

Development & External Relations: serve as the face and voice of the college to external

constituencies; provided new organization and focus to our external efforts

Revitalized and restructured the college’s advisory council, significantly enhancing

engagement of its members. The advisory council now actively engages in student

recruiting, provides marketing advice to our communications office, plans and organizes

college events, and promotes internships and job placement for our graduates.

Led the organization of the college’s 50th

anniversary celebration as a vehicle for

enhancing visibility & reputation; and created college alumni and faculty/staff awards.

Created a college communications office, which works closely with the University

Foundation, Marketing and Communications, Alumni Relations, and Admissions to

advance our message to external audiences

Work with University Foundation on donor cultivation and stewardship. Gifts to the

College average approximately $1.0 – 1.5 M annually.

University Leadership: active partnership with other deans and with vice presidents on

collaborative projects, active participant in the University's shared governance process

Served as liaison from the Council of Deans to Information Technology Services, and

member of the Computing Facilities Advisory Council (FY 09 - present)

Member of the University Council Steering Committee and Academic Policies

Committee (FY 09 - present)

Chaired the Capacity Management subcommittee of the Enrollment Management

Strategic Planning process (FY 10 - FY 11)

Chaired search for Vice President for Research (FY 11)

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Helped to create the Distributed Learning Task Force and served on its steering

committee (FY 11 - FY 12)

Chaired the Academic Programming subcommittee of the Vision 2020 strategic planning

process (FY 11 - 12)

Member of the Chief Information Officer search committee (FY 14)

Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs, McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, 2003 - 2007

Graduate Program Oversight: allocate and administer the college’s graduate

assistantship and tuition scholarship budgets; work with units and graduate school on

development, approval and implementation of new graduate degrees, graduate certificates

and joint degree programs; collaborate with the graduate school on graduate program

reviews, graduate policies and administration of graduate programs; led development of a

new integrated academic program review process.

Budget and Planning: led development of revenue-generating programs, including

summer school, graduate tuition incentive program and incentive-based degree programs;

serving on university task force that is developing policies for performance-based

budgeting; developed integrated data collection and analysis procedures to support

college decision-making and allocations; developed faculty retirement incentive plan.

College Space Management: brought plans for Social & Behavioral Sciences Center

and Chemical Storage facility through schematic design phase; created Language

Resource Center; oversaw creation of new offices for School of World Languages &

Cultures, Judaic Studies, African-American Studies, Women’s Studies, Center for

Organizational Leadership, Taft Research Center and multiple college administrative

units; coordinated integration of faculty from University College into McMicken College;

liaise with Provost’s Office and Registrar’s Office on classroom allocation and use;

developed model for forecasting future classroom needs; worked with University

Architect’s office to develop college space master plan.

Executive Deans Committee: interview faculty job candidates; review sabbatical leave

requests, reappointment, promotion and tenure requests and salary increase requests;

participate in the development of the college’s budget, including hiring plans, budget

reductions and reallocations; and routine administration of the college.

Marketing & Communication: office maintains college and departmental websites;

produces annual report, McMicken Magazine, monthly electronic newsletter, college

video; provides print and electronic materials for the college and its units; provides

recruiting and orientation materials for the college advising office. Oversight entails

coordination of marketing & communication policies, ensuring proper coordination with

college administration, development office and units, personnel issues. Recent and

current projects include: website redesign; creation of faculty database; college video;

production of posters and display materials for Showcase UC

University Service: University Graduate Council, 2003 – , Performance-Based

Budgeting Task Force, 2004 – , West Campus Space Allocation Committee, 2005 – ,

Graduate School New Programs Subcommittee, 2004 – , University Graduate Training

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Task Force, 2005 – 2006, Showcase UC Program Committee, 2005 – 2006, Cochair,

Teaching Assistant Development Task Force, 2005, Chair, Graduate Program Review

Committee, 2007

Interim Head, Department of Economics, University of Cincinnati 2001 - 2003.

Leadership: restored collegiality and reestablish a sense of mission in a factionalized

department; led department through five-year planning process; created new governance

procedures; conducted a review of the Labor and Employee Relations program that led to

the program's transfer to the Center for Organizational Leadership.

Faculty & Staff: Oversaw hiring process for tenure-track and adjunct appointments;

supervised departmental staff; coordinated transfer of economics faculty from University

College to McMicken College; led revision of departmental Reappointment, Promotion

& Tenure policies.

Departmental administration: administered the departmental budget; represented the

interests of the department to the College and University communities; administered the

absorption of the evening college economics program.

Development: restored relationships with key departmental alumni and donors; led a

restructuring of endowment fund uses and procedures helped to identify and advance

opportunities for development; initiated collaboration between department and college on

development efforts.

Chair, Taft Faculty Executive Board, University of Cincinnati 1998 - 2003.

Administration: Responsible for administration of the Taft Fund's $1,000,000 annual

research budget for the humanities and social sciences; provided leadership for the

faculty executive board that emphasized collaborative decision-making and consensus-

building; oversaw the operations of the faculty committees responsible for the awards

processes; served as the liaison to the fund’s external board of trustees.

Long-range planning: initiated the process (completed under my successor) of creating

a Taft Research Center; conducted a review and reorganization of all Taft programs;

eliminated obsolete or ineffective programs; used the funds recaptured to enhance

existing programs and create Departmental Enhancement Awards, Graduate

Enhancement Awards, Research Support Fund and Competitive Lecture Fund.

Collaboration: developed strong positive relationship with trustees that led to increase in

funding and restructuring as the Taft Research Center; created a Departmental

Enhancement program whose seed money catalyzed creation of European Studies

program, Applied Economics Research Institute, Statistical Consulting Laboratory, The

Cincinnati Review, and the Center for Integrated Homeland Security; created a cost-

sharing program to promote external funding; collaborated with Division of Research &

Advanced Studies to launch Research Proposal Development Seminar.

Director, Preparing Future Faculty Program, University of Cincinnati 1994 - 1998.

Founding director: developed the program structure to mentor doctoral students in

faculty roles & responsibilities; established and led program advisory board; developed

and taught courses; established a graduate certificate program for PFF; established

collaborative relationships with partner institutions (Xavier University, College of Mt. St.

Joseph, Northern Kentucky University, Raymond Walters College, Clermont College);

created mentoring program for UC students and partner institutions; sponsored creation

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of departmental programs; sought, secured and administered external funding from Pew

Charitable Trusts for the program.

National program: represented University of Cincinnati as part of the AAC&U national

PFF program; organized first regional conference at UC; presented results at AAC&U

annual meeting; served on review teams for programs at Indiana and Syracuse.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences

o Organized panel discussions at every meeting from 2007 to 2014

o Co-directed workshop on “Deans & Fiscal Management”, March, 2009

o Member of Research Universities committee, 2007 - 2010

o Chair, Research Universities committee, 2011, 2012

o Member, Board of Directors, 2012 – 2016

o Chair, Governance Committee & Member of Executive Committee, 2014 - 2016

American Mathematical Society

o Member, Committee on the Profession, 2009 – 2011

EXTERNAL GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

NSF ADVANCE-Catalyst Grant, 2010 – 13

Illinois State Board of Education Improving Teacher Quality Grant, 2010 – 13

US Dept. of Education TQE Grant, 2007 – 08

US EPA Research Consultant, 2004 – 06

NSF Small Grant for Exploratory Research, 2002 - 03

NSF Interdisciplinary Grant in Mathematical Sciences, 2000 – 02

NSF Midwest Dynamical Systems Program Group, 1999 – 2004

Association of American Colleges & Universities Preparing Future Faculty, 1997 – 2000

National Science Foundation, Operations Research & Production Systems, 1996 – 98

Institute for Mathematics and its Applications Conference Grant, 1997

Co-investigator, NSF Midwest Dynamical Systems Program Group, 1989 – 94

AMS-SIAM-IMS Joint Summer Research Conference Series, 1992

Co-investigator, DARPA Applied and Computational Mathematics Program, 1987 – 90

PUBLICATIONS

1. Uniqueness of connecting orbits in the equation y(3)

= y2 - 1. Journal of Mathematical

Analysis and Applications, 114 (1986) 584 - 592.

2. Mappings and homological properties in the Conley index theory. Ergodic Theory and

Dynamical Systems, 8* (1988) 175 - 198.

3. The connection map for attractor-repeller pairs. Transactions of the American Mathematical

Society, 307 (1988) 195 - 204.

4. On the Hopf index and the Conley index. Transactions of the American Mathematical

Society, 313 (1989) 853 - 860.

5. Nielsen numbers and Lefschetz numbers on solvmanifolds. Pacific Journal of Mathematics,

147 (1991) 153 - 164.

6. Mappings and Morse decompositions in the Conley index theory. Indiana University

Mathematics Journal, 40 (1991) 1061 - 1082.

7. Poincaré - Lefschetz duality for the homology Conley index. Transactions of the American

Mathematical Society, 329 (1992) 233 - 252.

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8. Lefschetz and Nielsen coincidence numbers on solvmanifolds. Topology and its

Applications, 43 (1992) 249 - 261.

9. Estimating Nielsen numbers on infrasolvmanifolds. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 154

(1992) 345 - 368.

10. Connected simple systems, transition matrices and heteroclinic bifurcations. (with

Konstantin Mischaikow) Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 333 (1992)

397 - 422.

11. Rational Ljusternik-Schnirelmann category and the Arnold Conjecture for nilmanifolds.

(with John Oprea) Topology, 32 (1993) 701 - 717.

12. Nielsen numbers of homotopically periodic maps on infrasolvmanifolds. Proceedings of the

American Mathematical Society, 120 (1994) 311 - 315.

13. Equivalence of topological transition matrices and singular connection matrices in the

Conley index. (with Konstantin Mischaikow) Michigan Mathematical Journal, 42 (1995)

387 - 414.

14. Zeta functions, periodic trajectories and the Conley index. (with Konstantin Mischaikow and

Marian Mrozek) Journal of Differential Equations, 121 (1995) 258 - 292.

15. The Anosov theorem for exponential solvmanifolds. (with Ed Keppelmann) Pacific Journal

of Mathematics, 170 (1995) 143 - 159.

16. On the global dynamics of attractors for scalar delay equations. (with Konstantin

Mischaikow) Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 9 (1996) 1095 - 1133.

17. Planar central configuration estimates in the N-body problem. Ergodic Theory & Dynamical

Systems, 16 (1996) 1059 - 1070.

18. Equilibria of spherical charge distributions. (with R. Clarissa Howison) New Trends in

Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics, Advanced Series in Nonlinear Dynamics. E.

Lacomba & J. Llibre, ed. World Scientific: Singapore, 1996. pp. 215 - 223.

19. Lefschetz and Nielsen coincidence numbers on nilmanifolds and solvmanifolds, II. Topology

and its Applications, 75 (1997) 81 - 92.

20. A Nielsen theory for intersection numbers. Fundamenta Mathematicae, 152 (1997) 117 -

150.

21. A genetic algorithm for the non-convex cutting stock problem, (with R. Sharma, T.

Balacahander, S. Anand, Q. Zhang) Transactions of the North American Manufacturing

Research Institute, XXV (1997) 281 - 286.

22. Integral Manifolds in the Three-Body Problem (with Kenneth Meyer and Quidong Wang)

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 628, American Mathematical Society,

Providence, RI 1998.

23. Bifurcations of the Hill's regions in the spatial three body problem. Proceedings of the

American Mathematical Society, 127 (1999) 2135 - 2142.

24. An integrated machine vision based system for solving the non-convex cutting stock problem

using genetic algorithms. (with S. Anand, T. Balachandar, R. Sharma) Journal of

Manufacturing Systems 18 (1999) 396 - 415.

25. Wecken theorems for Nielsen intersection theory. Nielsen theory and Reidemeister torsion

(Warsaw, 1996), 235-252, Banach Center Publications 49, Polish Academy of Science,

Warsaw, 1999.

26. The three faces of Nielsen: coincidences, intersections and preimages. Topology and its

Applications 103 (2000) 155 - 177.

27. Cross sections in the three-body problem. (with Ken Meyer) Journal of Dynamics and

Differential Equations 12 (2000) 247 - 271.

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28. Simplicial models for the global dynamics of attractors. Journal of Differential Equations

167 (2000) 316 - 356.

29. On the homology of the integral manifolds of the planar N-body problem. Ergodic Theory

& Dynamical Systems 21 (2001) 861 - 883.

30. Integral manifolds in the restricted three-body problem. (with Ken Meyer) Ergodic Theory

& Dynamical Systems 21 (2001) 885 - 914.

31. Topology of the integral manifolds of the N-body problem with positive energy (with

Hildeberto Cabral) Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations 14 (2002) 259 - 293.

32. Integrated Process Planning with Tolerance Allocation, Machine Selection and Scheduling

(with Sam Anand, Rajupaul Pallapati, Sangeet Uttam) Transactions of the North American

Manufacturing Research Institute, XXX (2002) 605 - 612.

33. Are Hamiltonian flows geodesic flows? (with Ken Meyer and Dan Offin) Transactions of

the American Mathematical Society. 355 (2003) 1237 – 1250.

34. On the selection of CMM-based Inspection Methodology for Circularity Tolerance. (with

Nitin Maheshwari, Sam Anand) Transactions of the North American Manufacturing

Research Institute, XXXI (2003) 265 – 272.

35. Saari's Conjecture for the Three-Body Problem with Equal Masses. Celestial Mechanics. 89

(2004) 99 – 118.

36. Design centering for asymmetrically distributed process deviations under conventional and

sequential tolerance controls. (with Sam Anand, Yashpal Kovvar) Transactions of the North

American Manufacturing Research Institute, XXXII (2004) 613 – 620.

37. Synergies in intra- and interpersonal interlimb rhythmic coordination. (with David Black and

Michael Riley) Motor Control, 11 (2007) 348 – 373.

38. A Markov model for assessing ecological stability properties (with Christopher Pawlowski).

Ecological Modelling, 220 (2009) 86 – 95.

SURVEY & EXPOSITORY ARTICLES

39. Computing Nielsen numbers. Nielsen Theory and Dynamical Systems (Mt. Holyoke, MA,

1992) Contemporary Mathematics 152, 249 - 267. American Mathematical Society,

Providence, RI, 1993.

40. Directions of Hamiltonian dynamics and celestial mechanics. (with Samuel Kaplan, Richard

Cushman, Sen Hu, Jaume Llibre, Donald Saari, Zhihong Xia) Hamiltonian dynamics and

celestial mechanics (Seattle, WA, 1995) Contemporary Mathematics 198, 229 - 240.

American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1996.

41. Connection matrices and transition matrices. (with Jim Reineck) Conley index theory

(Warsaw, 1997) Banach Center Publications 47, 41 - 55. Polish Academy of Science,

Warsaw, 1999.

42. Reconstructing the global dynamics of attractors via the Conley index. Conley index theory

(Warsaw, 1997) Banach Center Publications 47, 145 - 156. Polish Academy of Science,

Warsaw, 1999.

43. Cross sections in the planar N-body problem. Hamiltonian systems and celestial mechanics

(Pátzcuaro, 1998), 250-260, World Scientific Monograph Series in Mathematics, 6, World

Scientific Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 2000.

44. On the Homology of the Integral Manifolds in Celestial Mechanics. International

Conference on Differential Equations, Vol. 1 (Berlin, 1999), 20-25, World Scientific

Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 2000.

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZER

Oct., 1990 Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar, University of Cincinnati

June, 1992 Nielsen Theory & Dynamical Systems, AMS Joint Summer Research Conference

Series, South Hadley, Massachusetts

Jan. 1994 Special Session on Algebraic Topology & Dynamical Systems, AMS-MAA Joint

Annual Meeting, Cincinnati

May, 1995 Tristate Preparing Future Faculty Conference, University of Cincinnati

Oct., 1995 Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar, University of Cincinnati

May, 1997 The Legacy of Charlie Conley, Wisconsin Ph.D. Centennial, University of

Wisconsin - Madison

June, 1997 Banach Center Conference on the Conley Index, Warsaw, Poland

March, 1998 Global Analysis 30 Years Later, Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar, University

of Cincinnati

September, 2000 Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar, University of Cincinnati

October, 2002 Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar, University of Cincinnati

October, 2004 Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar, University of Cincinnati

INTERNATIONAL LECTURES

June, 1993 Computation of Nielsen numbers, Cortona Topological Fixed Point Theory

Workshop, Cortona, Italy

Sept., 1994 Central Configuration Estimates in the Planar N-Body Problem, 2nd International

Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics, Cocoyoc, Mexico

March, 1996 The Conley Index: A homotopy-theoretic approach to dynamical systems (4

lectures), Théorie d'Homotopie et Applications Série d'Exposés, Universite des Sciences

et Technologie, Lille

March, 1996 The Conley Index, Zeta Functions and Periodic Orbits, Minisymposium on the

Conley Index, Lille, France

April, 1996 Integral Manifolds in the Three Body Problem, Bureau des Longitudes, Paris

June, 1996 A Nielsen Theory for Intersection Numbers, Banach Center Workshop on Nielsen

Theory, Reidemeister Torsion and Zeta Fucntions, Warsaw, Poland

June, 1997 The three faces of Nielsen: comparing coincidence, intersection and root numbers,

Topological Fixed Point Theory and Applications to Nonlinear Analysis, Cortona, Italy

June, 1997 Reconstructing global dynamics from the Conley index, Banach Center Workshop on

the Conley Index, Warsaw, Poland

December, 1998 On the homology of the integral manifolds in the planar N-body problem, 3rd

International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics, Patzcuaro,

Mexico

August, 1999 On the homology of the integral manifolds in celestial mechanics, Equadiff '99,

Berlin, Germany

March, 2001 Integral manifolds of the spatial N-body problem with positive energy, 4th

International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics, Guanajuato,

Mexico

August, 2001 Lateral vehicle stability via the Conley index, Conley Index Workshop,

Sherbrooke, Canada

July, 2002 Integral manifolds of the N-body problem, Geometry, Symmetry & Mechanics II,

Coventry, England

April, 2004 Collinear blow-ups and integral manifolds of the spatial N-body problem, PIMS

Celestial Mechanics workshop, Banff International Research Station, Canada

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LECTURES

Feb. 1986 A Lefschetz theorem for the Conley index, University of Cincinnati

Nov 1986 The Hopf index theorem and Lefschetz fixed-point theorem for the Conley index

Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar, Northwestern University

Oct. 1987 Homological methods in dynamical systems, Cleveland State University

Sept. 1988 The Conley index theory for dynamical systems, Bowling Green State University

May 1989 Nielsen numbers and Lefschetz numbers for solvmanifolds, Lehigh Topology &

Geometry Conference

June, 1989 Nielsen numbers and Lefschetz numbers for solvmanifolds, University of Wisconsin

– Madison

Nov. 1989 A connection matrix approach to symmetry-breaking bifurcations Midwest

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Northwestern University

Jan. 1990 The equivariant Conley index and symmetry-breaking bifurcations, Georgia Institute

of Technology

Aug. 1990 Nielsen and Lefschetz coincidence numbers Hawaii Topology Conference, University

of Hawaii

March 1991 On the global dynamics of attractors for scalar delay equations Midwest

Dynamical Systems Seminar, Northwestern University

May 1991 Counting fixed points with Lefschetz numbers Lehigh Topology & Geometry

Conference

Jan. 1992 Ljusternik-Schnirelmann category and the Arnold conjecture for nilmanifolds,

Georgia Institute of Technology

March 1992 The Arnol'd conjecture for nilmanifolds International Conference on Hamiltonian

Dynamical Systems, University of Cincinnati

March 1992 The Arnol'd conjecture for nilmanifolds, Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar,

University of Minnesota

June 1992 Computing Nielsen numbers AMS Joint Summer Research Conference on Nielsen

Theory and Dynamical Systems, Mount Holyoke College

Jan. 1994 Central configuration estimates in the planar N-body problem, AMS Special Session

on Algebraic Topology & Dynamical Systems, Cincinnati, Ohio

Nov. 1994 Poincaré's “Analysis Situs” and the three-body problem, Karcher Colloquium,

University of Oklahoma

May 1995 Reconstructing global dynamics from the Conley index, SIAM Special Conference on

Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah

May 1995 Central configuration estimates in the planar N-body problem, SIAM Special

Conference on Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah

June 1995 Integral manifolds of the three body problem, AMS Joint Summer Research

Conference on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics, University of Washington

May 1997 Reconstructing global dynamics from the Conley index, The Legacy of Charlie

Conley minisymposium, Madison Ph.D. Centennial, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Nov. 1997 Poincaré's “Analysis Situs” and the three-body problem, University of Florida

Nov. 1997 Simplicial models for the global dynamics of attractors, University of Florida

Jan. 1998 Simplicial models for the global dynamics of attractors, Northwestern University

March 1998 Reconstructing the global dynamics of attractors, Global Analysis 30 Years Later,

University of Cincinnati

December, 1999 Topology & dynamics in the planar N-body problem, International Celestial

Mechanics Symposium, Northwestern University

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November, 2000 Same Shape, Same Size: Relative equilibria and moment of inertia in the

three-body problem, Queens University

January, 2002 Saari's Conjecture for the Three-Body Problem with Equal Masses, Georgia

Institute of Technology

October, 2002 Saari's Conjecture for the Three-Body Problem with Equal Masses, Midwest

Dynamical Systems Seminar, University of Cincinnati

STUDENTS

o Ph.D. Thesis advisor to Albain Rarivoson, August, 1994 Computation of the Nielsen

Numbers on Nilmanifolds and Solvmanifolds

o Masters' Committee of Anthony Tolonen, Anthropology, June, 1994

o Masters' Committee of Edward Gasparraj, Industrial Engineering, December, 1995

o Masters' Committee of Karthik Rajagopal, Industrial Engineering, June, 1997

o Ph.D. Committe of Sampath Damodar, Industrial Engineering, July, 1997

o Masters' Committee of Rohit Sharma, Industrial Engineering, July, 1997

o Masters' Committee of Valsa Varghese, Mathematical Sciences, November, 1999

o Ph.D. Committee of Cesar Grau, Mechanical Engineering, December, 2000

o Masters' Committee of Sangeet Uttam, Industrial Engineering, April, 2001

o Masters' Committee of Nitin Maheshwari, Industrial Engineering, May, 2001

o Masters' Committee of Shantanu Chandra, Industrial Engineering, June, 2002

o Masters' Committee of Rajupaul Pallapati, Industrial Engineering, November, 2002

o Masters' Committee of Raghavendran Chandran, Industrial Engineering, November, 2002

o Ph.D. Committee of David Black, Psychology, September, 2005

o Technical Advisor to the Industrial Engineering Design Clinic, 1994 - 1995 and 2000 – 2001

o Directed several senior-level research projects and readings courses in topology and

dynamical systems.

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate

Elementary Probability and Statistics, Engineering Statistics (in Industrial Engineering)

Topics in Mathematics, Mathematics for the Social Sciences

Calculus and Analytic Geometry, Calculus for Business Students, Introductory Calculus

Ordinary Differential Equations

Matrix Algebra, Matrix Methods, Linear Algebra, Applied Linear Algebra

History of Mathematics

Geometry and the History of Western Thought, Ethnomathematics (Honors Special

Topics courses)

Linear Programming, Operations Research (in Industrial Engineering)

Graduate Courses

Topology

Ordinary Differential Equations

Geometry

Proseminar in Teaching College Mathematics

Preparing Future Faculty Seminars

Advanced Seminars in Conley index, algebraic topology, fiber bundles & characteristic

classes, Nielsen theory, homological algebra, Lie groups & group actions on manifolds.

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Course Development

Topics in Mathematics, Mathematics for the Social Sciences

Geometry and the History of Western Thought, Ethnomathematics (Honors Special

Topics courses)

Future Faculty Seminar

REFEREEING & REVIEWING

Research articles refereed for American Journal of Mathematics, Bulletin of the London

Mathematical Society, Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, Celestial Mechanics, Ergodic Theory &

Dynamical Systems, Fundamentae Mathematica, Hawaii Topology Conference Proceedings,

Houston Journal of Mathematics, Journal of Differential Equations, Journal of Dynamics and

Differential Equations, London Journal of Mathematics, Mathematical Monthly, Michigan

Mathematical Journal, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Topology and its

Applications, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Reviews in topology and dynamical systems for Mathematical Reviews

Grant proposals refereed for NSF Geometric Analysis, Topology and International Programs

Review Panelist for NSF ADVANCE PAID grants

Reviews of textbooks in

Mathematics for Liberal Arts for W. H. Freeman, Prentice Hall, PWS-Kent, ITP,

Addison-Wesley

Linear Algebra for McGraw-Hill, Academic Press, W.C.Brown

Undergraduate Topology for W.C.Brown, PWS-Kent

Business Calculus for W.C.Brown

Graduate Topology for Springer-Verlag

Graduate Dynamical Systems for Cambridge University Press