RICHARD SOWERS
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
r-sowers@illinois.edu
Work phone: (217) 333-6246
Home page: http://www.math.illinois.edu/~r-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.
Grants
- NSF #1024837: BECS: Rare Systematic Risk in Markets: Modelling, Theory and Computation (joint with U. Shanbhag)
- 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)