Floyd B. Hanson

Professor Emeritus
Laboratory for Advanced Computing
Laboratory for Control and Information
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

• B.S. in Engineering Science, June 1962
  Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio

• M.S. in Fluid Dynamics, June 1964
  Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
  Title of Thesis: A Transcendental Approximation for Laminar Boundary Layers.
  Thesis Advisor: Peter D. Richardson

• Ph.D. in Fluid Dynamics, June 1968
  Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
  Title of Thesis: Kinetic Models for a Polyatomic Gas and the Propagation of Sound in Rarefied Gases. (August 1967)
  Thesis Advisor: Theodore F. Morse, with co-advisor Lawrence Sirovich
  

Professional Positions

• Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, August 16 2005 - Present.

• Visiting Professor, Financial Mathematics Program, University of Chicago, Winter 2009 - 2010.

• Visiting Professor in Stochastics, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA, February, 2007.

• Associate Director, Laboratory for Advanced Computing, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1990 - 15 August 2005.

• Associate Director, Laboratory for Control and Information, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1993 - 15 August 2005.

• Associate Editor-in-Chief, Applied and Computational Control, Signals, and Circuits, Book Series, Birkhauser Verlag, June 1996-present.

• Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1983 - 15 August 2005.

• Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1975 - 1983.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1969 - 1975.

• Visiting Professor, Financial Mathematics Program, University of Chicago, Winter 2009.

• Visiting Faculty, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Spring 1995.

• Visiting Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Fall 1994.

• Argonne Associate,Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division, Advanced Computing Research Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, 1988-present.

• Visiting Appointment, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Monash University, Australia, August 1981.

• Sabbatical Visiting Appointment University of British Columbia, Department of Mathematics, l976 - 1977.

• Associate Research Scientist, Magneto-Fluid-Dynamics Division, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 1967 - 1969.

• Research Assistant, Division of Engineering, Brown University, 1963 - 1967.

• Other Industrial and Government Positions

Fellowships and Awards

• UIC Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2001 Academic Year by Review Panel of former winners and Interim Provost, Includes $5,000 Increase in Annual Salary Base, 30 April 2001.

• Fellow Nominee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Control Systems Society, 15 March 2001.

• Delegate, IEEE Control Systems Society Delegation to China, 20 October - 03 November, 2000.

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 05 August 2000.

• Teacher Recognition Award, UIC Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), Included $1500 Increase in Annual Salary Base, 25 June 1999.

• Faculty Research Leave award,Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division, Advanced Computing Research Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, Sabbatical Support, Fall-Winter 1987-1988.

• Faculty Research Participant, Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division, Advanced Computing Research Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, Summers 1985, 1986, 1987.

• Outstanding Achievements Listings: Marquis Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who in Science and Engineering; American Men and Women in Science, since about the 1970s.

• Brown University Graduate Fellowship, 1962-63.

Grants?

• See List of Grants for Last 10 Years at UIC?

Publications?

• See Complete List of Publications?

Annotated List of Publications by Special Topics?

• See Computational Stochastic Dynamic Programming Papers?

• See Computational Finance Papers?

• See Scientific Visualization Papers?

• See Stochastic Modeling and Bioeconomics Papers?

• See Parallel Scheduling Papers?

• See Performance Evaluation Papers?

• See Exponential Asymptotics Papers?

• See Supercomputing Education Papers?

Professional Talks?

• See Complete List of Talks?

Theses Supervised?

• See List of Theses Supervised?

• See List of Thesis Defense Exams?

Research Interests?

• General Applied Mathmatics and Computational Science

• Computational Stochastic Programming

• Stochastic Modeling: Computational Finance, Random Disasters, Stochastic Manufacturing Systems

• Scientific Supercomputing

• Mathematical Biology: Extinctions, Fisheries, Cancer, Neurophysiology

• Parallel Processing: Scheduling

• Singular Perturbations: Exponential Asymptotics

• Fluid Dynamics: Groundwater Quality Management