Research Grants Awarded to
Department of Mathematics Faculty
Below is a list of faculty with current grants.
Dr. Theodora Bourni
- 9/1/2020 -- Collapsed Ancient Solutions of Mean Curvature Flow -- Simons Foundation
- 8/1/2021 -- Ancient solutions to geometric flows -- National Science Foundation
Dr. Xia Chen
- 9/1/2018 -- Precise large scale asymptotics for parabolic Anderson models and other SPDEs -- Simons Foundation
Dr. Jeneva Clark
- 9/1/2017 -- Collaborative Research: A National Consortium for Synergistic Undergraduate Mathematics via Multi-institutional Interdisciplinary Teaching Partnerships (SUMMIT-P) -- National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2018 (Co-PI) -- VolsTeach for Appalachia: Strengthening the STEM Teacher Pathway from Community College to East Tennessee High-need School Districts -- National Science Foundation
- 5/1/2020 (Co-PI) -- Math Majors to Math Teachers: Supporting Students on Required Teacher Licensure Tests -- University of Tennessee
- 7/1/2021 (Co-PI) -- UT-PLAYS-Math (Personalized Learning At Your Speed) -- TN Department of Education
Dr. Xiaobing Feng
- 7/1/2016 -- Novel numerical methods for fully nonlinear second order elliptic and parabolic Monge-Ampere and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations -- National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2020 -- Efficient Numerical Methods and Algorithms for Nonlinear Stochastic Partial Differential Equations -- National Science Foundation
Dr. Cory Hauck
- 8/1/2019 -- Filtering Strategies for Radiation Transport Equations -- National Science Foundation
- 6/1/2020 -- Develop a better understanding of adaptive velocity grids for kinetic equations -- Los Alamos National Lab
Dr. Anne Ho
- 5/15/2019 -- Tennessee Eastern & Appalachian Math Teachers' Circle -- American Institute of Mathematics
- 9/1/2021 --Transitioning Secondary to Tertiary Educators' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching -- National Science Foundation
Dr. Ohannes Karakashian
- 9/1/2016 -- Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin methods and Applications -- National Science Foundation
Dr. Mathew Langford
- 2020 -- The structure of singularities in geometric flows -- Discovery early career researcher award, Australian Research Council
Dr. Suzanne Lenhart
- 7/15/2020 (Co-PI) -- US-Africa Collaborative Research Network in Mathematical Sciences -- National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2020 -- Modeling Infectious Diseases in Healthcare Network (MInD - Healthcare) With COVID-19 supplement -- CDC
- 8/1/2021 -- NSF INCLUDES Alliance: The Alliance of Students with Disabilities for Inclusion, Networking, and Transition Opportunities in STEM (TAPDINTO-STEM) -- Auburn University
Dr. Vasileios Maroulas
- 8/1/2017 (Co-PI) -- Mechanisms of Cytoplasmic Streaming -- National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2020 -- CQIS: Quantum Computational Signal Classification (QuATOMIC) -- National Science Foundation
- 1/1/2021 (Co-PI) -- Molecular Encoding for Machine Learning -- Eastman Chemical Molecular
- 2/15/2021 -- Computational Bayesian Learning Via Topology (CoBiLT) -- Army Research Office
- 9/1/2021 -- Spatiotemporal Awareness via Topological Artificial Intelligence (SPARTAN) -- Army Research Lab
Dr. Tadele Mengesha
- 8/15/2019 -- A qualitative study of nonlocal models in mechanics -- National Science Foundation
Dr. Tuoc Phan
- 9/1/2015 -- Asymptotical stability and regularity theory in nonlinear PDEs -- Simons Foundation
Dr. Olivia Prosper
- 9/1/2019 -- Collaborative Research: Linking Pharmacokinetics to Epidemiological Models of Vector-Borne Diseases and Drug Resistance Prevention -- National Science Foundation
- 3/1/2021 -- CAREER: Designing optimal sampling strategies for epidemiological models -- National Science Foundation
Dr. Abner Salgado
- 8/1/2017 -- Approximation of Singular Solutions to Nonlocal and Nonlinear Models -- National Science Foundation
- 7/15/2021 -- Approximation and Analysis of Selected Nonsmooth, Nonlinear, and Nonlocal Equations -- National Science Foundation
Dr. Ioannis Sgouralis
- 1/1/2021 -- Hierarchical Machine Learning for Polyester Materials Design -- Eastman Chemical Company
Dr. Christopher Strickland
- 9/1/2018 -- Biodispersal & Addiction Epidemiology -- Simons Foundation
- 8/1/2021 (Co-PI) -- NSF INCLUDES Alliance: The Alliance of Students with Disabilities for Inclusion, Networking, and Transition Opportunities in STEM (TAPDINTO-STEM) -- Auburn University
Dr. Vyron Vellis
- 8/1/2019 -- Parametrization, Embedding and Extension Problems in Metric Spaces -- National Science Foundation
Dr. Steven Wise
- 8/1/2017 -- Efficient, Adaptive, and Convergent Numerical Methods for Phase Field Equations with Applications -- National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2020 -- Collaborative Research: Efficient, Accurate, and Structure-Preserving Numerical Methods for Phase Fields-type Models with Applications -- National Science Foundation
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
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
- 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