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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: [email protected]
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