Biographies of Invited Speakers
Professor Suzanne Lenhart - University of Tennessee
at Knoxville
Suzanne Lenhart received her PhD in mathematics from the University
of Kentucky in 1981 in the area of partial differential equations.
She is currently a full professor at the University of Tennessee. Her current
research interests include applications of optimal control of differential
equations to environmental, biological and physical problems and quantum
mechanics. She is a part-time employee of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
She is the director of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates summer
program at UT. She was the Mathematical Association of America
Southeastern Section Lecturer of the Year in 1999. She has
organized five workshops for female graduate students and post-docs
for the Association for Women in Mathematics. She received
the "Mentor of the Year" award from the Southern Regional Education
Board in 1998 for work in the Compact for Faculty Diversity program.
Lenhart has 79 research publications in the areas of partial differential
equation and optimal control. Lenhart has directed 4
PhD students and 18 masters students. She just finished serving 6
years as an elected member of the SIAM Council. She was recently
elected to the Board of the Society for Mathematical Biology.
She is currently the President of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Professor Linda Petzold - University of California
at Santa Barbara
Dr. Linda R. Petzold is currently Professor in the Departments
of Computer Science, and Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, and
Director of the Computational Science and Engineering Program, at University
of California Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science
in 1978 from the University of Illinois. From 1978-1985 she was a
member of the Applied Mathematics Group at Sandia National Laboratories
in Livermore, California, and from 1985-1991 she was Group Leader of the
Numerical Mathematics Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
From 1991-1997 she was Professor in the Department of Computer Science
at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Petzold was awarded the Wilkinson Prize
for Numerical Software in 1991, and the Dahlquist Prize, for numerical
solution of differential equations, in 1999. She is currently Vice
President at Large of SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
She served as SIAM Vice President for Publications from 1993-1998, and
as Editor in Chief of the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing from 1989-1993.
Her research interests include numerical ordinary differential equations,
differential-algebraic equations, and partial differential equations, dynamic
optimization, nonlinear model reduction, mathematical software and scientific
computing.