Charles Knessl’s Home Page

Knessl with former student, now Professor, Peter Yang (left)

Address: Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

University of Illinois at Chicago

851 South Morgan Street

Chicago, IL 60607-7045

Phone: (312) 413-2141, Fax: (312) 996-1491

e-mail: knessl@uic.edu

Education: Ph.D 1986 Applied Mathematics, Northwestern Univ.

M.S. 1983 Applied Mathematics, Northwestern Univ.

M.S. 1982 Mathematics, Univ. of Illinois-Chicago

B.A. 1982 Chemistry, Univ. of Illinois-Chicago

Employment: 1994-present Professor Univ. of Illinois-Chicago

1990-1994 Associate Professor “

1987-1990 Assistant Professor “

1986-1987 Postdoctoral Fellow Northwestern Univ.

Professional Honors: National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowship, 1982-1985

International Business Machines (IBM) pre-doctoral fellowship, 1985-1986

National Science Foundation (NSF) mathematical sciences postdoctoral research fellowship, 1986-1989

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1988-1994

Sloan Fellowship, 1990-1993

Research Interests: Asymptotic and singular perturbation methods, applied stochastic models, queuing and risk theory, problems of convection and diffusion, analysis of algorithms and problems in computer science, financial mathematics, applications of special functions

For a complete list of publications see http://www.math.uic.edu/~knessl/publications.pdf

Teaching: On sabbatical Spring 2001 semester