Awards

• Optimal Polyhedral Homotopies on Supercomputers for Algebraic Sets. Award 0713018 for $255,000 from NSF DMS - Computational Mathematics. The start and end dates are respectively 09/01/2007 and 08/31/2010.

• Collaborative Research: Numerical Algorithms and Software for Solving Polynomial Systems with Parameters. Award 0410036 for $80,870 from NSF DMS - Computational Mathematics (joint support from the Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics program). The effective date is 09/15/04 with a 36 months duration. This is collaborative research with Andrew J. Sommese (University of Notre Dame, NSF Award DMS-0410047) and Charles W. Wampler (General Motors Research Labs).

• Recipient of a 2004 Teaching Recognition Program Award, administered by the Concil of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at UIC.

• CAREER: NLApack: Software for Numerical Algebraic Geometry. Award 0134611 for $400,000 from NSF DMS - Computational Mathematics (with contributions from the Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics program). The effective date is 03/01/02 with a 60 months duration.

• Collaborative Research: Numerical Algorithms and Software for Decomposing Solution Sets of Polynomial Systems. Award 0105739 for $140,005 from NSF DMS - Computational Mathematics (split funded by the Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics program). The effective date is 08/01/01 with a 36 months duration. This is collaborative research with Andrew J. Sommese (University of Notre Dame, NSF Award DMS-0105653) and with Charles W. Wampler (General Motors Research Labs).

• Software for the Pole Placement Problem. The Campus Research Board of UIC funded this project for $14,992. The duration of this project is the academic year 2001-2002.