RICHARD SOWERS

Education

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, May 1991, University of Maryland at College Park.
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, August 1988, University of Maryland at College Park, Thesis: New Results in Discrete-Time Nonlinear Filtering
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering. June 1986, Drexel University , Philadelphia.

Academic Appointments

• Professor, Department of Mathematics , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2006 to present.
• Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2001 to August 2006.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 1996 to August 2001.
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, September 1994 to December 1995 (with NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship).
• Visitor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland at College Park, September 1993 to August 1994 (with NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship).
• Postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor, Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Southern California, August 1991 to August 1993.

Publications

Grants

• NSF #0705260: AMC-SS, Collaborative Research: Explorations in Stochastic Moving Boundary Value Problems
• NSF #0604249: AMC-SS Noise-Induced Transitions in Multiscale Systems
• NSF #0305925: Random Perturbations of Complex Dynamical Systems
• NSF #0071484:Stochastic Averaging: Geometry and Stratified Spaces
• NSF #9726739 U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Applications to Models in Physics and Biology
• ONR N000409000647: Nonstandard Reduction and Analysis of Randomly Excited Thin-Shell Structures (joint with N.S. Namachchivaya)