Biography:Linda J. S. Allen
Linda Joy Svoboda Allen is an American mathematician and mathematical biologist, the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University.[1]
Education and career
Allen earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1975 from the College of St. Scholastica, and a master's degree in 1978 and doctorate in 1978 from the University of Tennessee.[2] Her dissertation, Applications of Differential Inequalities to Persistence and Extinction Problems for Reaction-Diffusion Systems, was supervised by Thomas G. Hallam.[2][3]
After working as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, she joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 1982, and then moved to Texas Tech in 1985.[2]
Recognition
In 2015 the Association for Women in Mathematics and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) honored her as their AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer "for outstanding contributions in ordinary differential equations, difference equations and stochastic models, with significant applications in the areas of infectious diseases and ecology".[1] In 2016 she became a SIAM Fellow.[4][5]
Books
Allen is the author of three books:
- An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology (Pearson, 2003; 2nd ed., 2011)[6]
- An Introduction to Mathematical Biology (Prentice Hall, 2007)[7]
- Stochastic Population and Epidemic Models: Persistence and Extinction (Springer, 2015).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Professor awarded distinguished lecture for contributions to mathematics, Texas Tech University, retrieved 2017-07-01
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Abbreviated Vita, retrieved 2017-07-01
- ↑ Linda J. S. Allen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Mathematics professor named a 2016 SIAM Fellow, Texas Tech University, retrieved 2017-07-01
- ↑ SIAM Fellows: Class of 2016, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, retrieved 2017-07-01
- ↑ Reviews of An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology:
- Nanda, Seema; Gross, Louis (September 2004), "none", SIAM Review 46 (3): 583–584
- Miao, Hongyu (2011), "none", Mathematical Reviews
- Temple, Kathy (January 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews, https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/an-introduction-to-stochastic-processes-with-applications-to-biology
- ↑ Akman, Füsun (January 2014), "How to utilize L. J. S. Allen's An Introduction to Mathematical Biology in a biomathematics course", Letters in Biomathematics 1 (2): 127–137, doi:10.1080/23737867.2014.11414475
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