Chair of the College of Arts and Sciences Faculty, 2008-2009.

Professional Interests
differential equations
dynamical systems
mathematical biology
mathematical finance

Education
B.A., Ph.D., Rice University

Previous Positions
New York University
City College of New York
University of Minnesota

Selected Publications

2007. "Modeling Biomarker Dynamics with Implications for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer" (with Hedican and Lanie), Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine 8(2), 77-92.

2006. "A Stochastic Model for PSA Levels:  Behavior of Solutions and Population Statistics" (with Belik, Dayananda, and Shvartsman), Journal of Mathematical Biology 53, 437-463.

2003. "A Stochastic Model for Prostate-Specific Antigen Levels" (with Dayananda and Shvartsman), Mathematical Biosciences 190, 113-126.

2003. "A Model for Executive Reload Options" (with Dayananda), presented to the 2003 Stochastic Modeling Symposium, Toronto, September 2003.

1982. "The Evolutionary Effect of Endemic Infectious Disease: Continuous Models for an Invariant Pathogen," Journal of  Mathematical Biology 15, 65-77.

1981. "Identification of Silent Infections in S-I-R Epidemics," Bulletin of  Mathematical Bioogy 43, 249-258.

1980. "Error Sources in the Evaluation of Secondary Attack Rates," American Journal of Epidemiology 112, 457-464.

1980. "On the Identification of Superspreaders for Infectious Disease," Mathematical Biosciences 48, 111-127.

1978.   "The Effects of Asymptomatic Attacks on the Spread of Infectious Disease: A Deterministic Model," Bulletin of Math. Biology 40, 707-718.

1975. "On the Support of Representing Measures for Harmonic Functions, " Rocky Mountain Journal of Math. 5, 375-378.

1974.  "The Local Character of Kernal Functions in Axiomatic Potential Theory" (joint work with B. Frank Jones, Jr.), Communications. On Pure and Applied Matematics 27, 135-142.