Below is a list of faculty with current grants.
Dr. Theodora Bourni
- 9/1/2020 — Collapsed Ancient Solutions of Mean Curvature Flow — Simons Foundation
- 8/1/2021 — Ancient solutions to geometric flows — National Science Foundation
Dr. Xia Chen
- 9/1/2018 — Precise large scale asymptotics for parabolic Anderson models and other SPDEs — Simons Foundation
Dr. Jeneva Clark
- 9/1/2017 — Collaborative Research: A National Consortium for Synergistic Undergraduate Mathematics via Multi-institutional Interdisciplinary Teaching Partnerships (SUMMIT-P) — National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2018 (Co-PI) — VolsTeach for Appalachia: Strengthening the STEM Teacher Pathway from Community College to East Tennessee High-need School Districts — National Science Foundation
- 5/1/2020 (Co-PI) — Math Majors to Math Teachers: Supporting Students on Required Teacher Licensure Tests — University of Tennessee
- 7/1/2021 (Co-PI) — UT-PLAYS-Math (Personalized Learning At Your Speed) — TN Department of Education
- 3/15/2023 — NSF Award Search: Award # 2306211 – Program Assessment Conference for Mathematics: Creating Tools for Math Departments to Self-Assess Professional Development Programs for their Graduate Student Instructors–National Science Foundation
Dr. Xiaobing Feng
- 7/1/2016 — Novel numerical methods for fully nonlinear second order elliptic and parabolic Monge-Ampere and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations — National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2020 — Efficient Numerical Methods and Algorithms for Nonlinear Stochastic Partial Differential Equations — National Science Foundation
- 5/1/2023 — Project in compression of streaming scientific data–DOE-ORNL-UT-Battelle, LLC
Dr. Cory Hauck
- 8/1/2019 — Filtering Strategies for Radiation Transport Equations — National Science Foundation
- 6/1/2020 — Develop a better understanding of adaptive velocity grids for kinetic equations — Los Alamos National Lab
Dr. Anne Ho
- 5/15/2019 — Tennessee Eastern & Appalachian Math Teachers’ Circle — American Institute of Mathematics
- 9/1/2021 — Transitioning Secondary to Tertiary Educators’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching — National Science Foundation
Dr. Ohannes Karakashian
- 9/1/2016 — Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin methods and Applications — National Science Foundation
Dr. Mathew Langford
- 2020 — The structure of singularities in geometric flows — Discovery early career researcher award, Australian Research Council
Dr. Suzanne Lenhart
- 7/15/2020 (Co-PI) — US-Africa Collaborative Research Network in Mathematical Sciences — National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2020 — Modeling Infectious Diseases in Healthcare Network (MInD – Healthcare) With COVID-19 supplement — CDC
- 8/1/2021 — NSF INCLUDES Alliance: The Alliance of Students with Disabilities for Inclusion, Networking, and Transition Opportunities in STEM (TAPDINTO-STEM) — Auburn University
Dr. Vasileios Maroulas
- 8/1/2017 (Co-PI) — Mechanisms of Cytoplasmic Streaming — National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2020 — CQIS: Quantum Computational Signal Classification (QuATOMIC) — National Science Foundation
- 1/1/2021 (Co-PI) — Molecular Encoding for Machine Learning — Eastman Chemical Molecular
- 2/15/2021 — Computational Bayesian Learning Via Topology (CoBiLT) — Army Research Office
- 9/1/2021 — Spatiotemporal Awareness via Topological Artificial Intelligence (SPARTAN) — Army Research Lab
- 9/1/2022 — NSF Award Search: Award # 2133630 – NSF Engineering Research Center for Hybrid Autonomous Manufacturing Moving from Evolution to Revolution (ERC-HAMMER), NSF’s HAMMER Engineering Research Center (osu.edu) and-UT a Core Member of New NSF Research Center for Advanced Manufacturing – News (utk.edu) — Ohio State University/NSF
Dr. Tadele Mengesha
- 8/15/2019 — A qualitative study of nonlocal models in mechanics — National Science Foundation
Dr. Tuoc Phan
- 9/1/2015 — Asymptotical stability and regularity theory in nonlinear PDEs — Simons Foundation
Dr. Olivia Prosper
- 9/1/2019 — Collaborative Research: Linking Pharmacokinetics to Epidemiological Models of Vector-Borne Diseases and Drug Resistance Prevention — National Science Foundation
- 3/1/2021 — CAREER: Designing optimal sampling strategies for epidemiological models — National Science Foundation
Dr. Abner Salgado
- 7/15/2021 — Approximation and Analysis of Selected Nonsmooth, Nonlinear, and Nonlocal Equations — National Science Foundation
- 1/29/2024 — Numerical PDEs: Analysis, Algorithms, and Data Challenges, https://icerm.brown.edu/programs/sp-s24/ — Brown University
Dr. Ioannis Sgouralis
- 1/1/2021 — Hierarchical Machine Learning for Polyester Materials Design — Eastman Chemical Company
Dr. Christopher Strickland
- 9/1/2018 — Biodispersal & Addiction Epidemiology — Simons Foundation
- 8/1/2021 (Co-PI) — NSF INCLUDES Alliance: The Alliance of Students with Disabilities for Inclusion, Networking, and Transition Opportunities in STEM (TAPDINTO-STEM) — Auburn University
Dr. Vyron Vellis
- 8/1/2019 — Parametrization, Embedding and Extension Problems in Metric Spaces — National Science Foundation
Dr. Steven Wise
- 8/1/2017 — Efficient, Adaptive, and Convergent Numerical Methods for Phase Field Equations with Applications — National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2020 — Collaborative Research: Efficient, Accurate, and Structure-Preserving Numerical Methods for Phase Fields-type Models with Applications — National Science Foundation
- 1/7/2022 — BGK Kinetic Equations — UT-Battelle
- 8/1/2023 — Collaborative Research: Accurate and Structure-Preserving Numerical Schemes for Variable Temperature Phase Field Models and Efficient Solvers — National Science Foundation
Past Grants
Dr. Vasilios Alexiades
- 9/1/2002 — Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations — National Science Foundation
- 7/1/2003 — Mathematical Models of Dynamics of Visual Transduction — Vanderbilt University
- 7/1/2004 — Vanderbilt Meharry Center for Modeling Complex Signaling Systems — Vanderbilt University
- 8/1/2008 — Grid Based Modeling of Electrical Propagation in Excitable Tissue — DHHS-NIH
- 8/15/2010 — UT/ORNL Graduate Student Agreement Request for George Butler in Mathematic — UT-Battelle
- 9/1/2013 — Real time Chemotaxis in Commensal Plant-Microbe Associations — National Science Foundation
Dr. Theodora Bourni
- 4/1/2018 — 2018 John Barrett Memorial Lectures — National Science Foundation
Dr. Dustin Cartwright
- 2/8/2016 — Tropical complexes and moduli of curves — US Defense
Dr. Xia Chen
- 7/1/2004 — Exponential Asymptotics in Sample Path Intersection and Related Problems — National Science Foundation
- 9/1/2007 — High Moment Asymptotics and its Applications in Intersection Local Times and Related Models — National Science Foundation
- 9/1/2012 — Random walk in random media — Simons Foundation
Dr. Yu-Ting Chen
- 9/1/2017 — Stochastic PDEs with non-Lipschitz noise coefficients and related aspects — Simons Foundation
Dr. Jeneva Clark
- 1/1/2017 — Let’s Get Physical! Teaching Math Through the Lens of Physics — TN Department of Education
- 12/1/2018 — CoMInDS Workshop — Mathematica Association of America
- 1/1/2019 — Galvanizing Interdisciplinary STEM in Tennessee (GIST) — Tennessee STEM Innovation Network and Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS)
Dr. James Conant
- 7/1/2003 — Invariants in Low Dimensional Topology — National Science Foundation
- 4/1/2006 — 2006 Barrett Lectures in Topology — National Science Foundation
- 6/1/2006 — Invariants in Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory — National Science Foundation
Dr. Robert Daverman
- 7/1/2006 — Office of the Secretary for the American Mathematical Society — American Math Society
- 7/1/2007 — Office of the Secretary for the American Mathematical Society — American Math Society
- 7/1/2008 — Office of the Secretary for the American Mathematical Society — American Math Society
- 7/1/2009 — Office of the Secretary for the American Mathematical Society — American Math Society
- 7/1/2010 — 2010-2011 Annual Service Agreement to the American Mathematical Society — American Math Society
- 7/1/2011 — AMERICAN MATH SOCIETY – DAVERMAN — American Math Society
- 8/1/2012 — AMERICAN MATH SOCIETY – DAVERMAN — American Math Society
Dr. Judy Day
- 9/15/2011 — Modeling and Adaptive Control of Complex Immune Responses — National Science Foundation
- 8/9/2013 — Indices of Bioenergy Sustainability — UT-Battelle
Dr. Jochen Denzler
- 7/1/2011 — Simons Collaboration Grant — Simons Foundation
Dr. Jerzy Dydak
- 7/1/2005 — International Topology Conference Bedlewo 2005 — National Science Foundation
- 9/1/2005 — Problems in Extension Theory — US-Israel Binational Scienc
Dr. Nina Fefferman
- 9/1/2016 — EAGER: Collaborative Research: Algorithmic Framework for Anomaly Detection in Interdependent Networks — National Science Foundation
Dr. Xiaobing Feng
- 5/1/2001 — Barrett Lectures New Direction and Developments in Computational Mathematics — National Science Foundation
- 6/1/2004 — Computational Challenges in Geometrical Flows: Numerical Methods and Analysis, Algorithmic Development and Software Engineering — National Science Foundation
- 7/1/2007 — International Workshop on Computational Methods in Geosciences — National Science Foundation
- 7/15/2007 — Numerical Methods and Algorithms for Second Order Fully Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations — National Science Foundation
- 8/15/2010 — Numerical Methods and Algorithms for Fully Nonlinear Second Order Evolution Equations with Applications — National Science Foundation
- 2/1/2012 — Recent Developments in Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations — National Science Foundation
- 5/1/2012 — 2012 John Barrett Lectures: Recent Developments in Finite Element Discontinuous Galerkin Methods. — University of Minnesota
- 1/2/2013 — New Direction Professorship — University of Minnesota
- 8/15/2013 — Novel Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Second Order Fully Non — National Science Foundation
- 8/15/2018 — Numerical Simulation of Radiative Transport Equations — UT-Battelle
Dr. Luis Finotti
- 5/1/2019 — Barrett Lectures 2019: Recent Advancements in Number Theory — National Science Foundation
Dr. Marie Jameson
- 5/1/2019 — (IMA) Barrett Lectures 2019: Recent Advancements in Number Theory — University of Minnesota
Dr. Bo Guan
- 6/1/2002 — Fully Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations in Differential Geometry — National Science Foundation
Dr. Cory Hauck
- 9/15/2012 — Optimization-Based Moment Models for Multiscale Kinetic Equations — National Science Foundation
- 5/30/2019 — Adaptive velocity grids for kinetic equations — Los Alamos National Lab
Dr. Don Hinton
- 1/1/2014 — Undergraduate Mathematics Conference — Mathematical Assoc of America
- 4/1/2015 — Undergraduate Mathematics Conference — Mathematical Assoc of America
Dr. Ohannes Karakashian
- 6/1/2004 — Analysis and Applications of the Discontinuous Galerkin Method — National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2012 — Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin methods and Applications — National Science Foundation
- 9/19/2013 — Stochastic multi-level methods for uncertainty quantification — UT-Battelle
Dr. Mathew Langford
- 5/1/2018 — 2018 Barrett Lectures — University of Minnesota
Dr. Suzanne Lenhart
- 5/1/2000 — RET Activity with the REU Program at The University of Tennessee — National Science Foundation
- 5/1/2003 — Mathematical REU Site at The University of Tennessee — National Science Foundation
- 9/1/2005 — Collaborative Research: Spatial Theory for Renewable Resource Economics — National Science Foundation
- 9/1/2008 — Optimal Control Studies for Cholera (Subcontract to Murray State University) — Murray State Univ
- 8/1/2013 — Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations 2013 — National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2014 — Environmental Components in Disease Models — NIH
- 1/1/2015 — Environmental Components in Disease Models — North Carolina State Univ
- 5/29/2015 (Co-PI) — Math Counts 3 — Campbell County Schools-Math Counts Lenh
Dr. Joan Lind
- 7/1/2011 — Phases and Deformations of Loewner Evolutions — National Science Foundation
- 1/1/2014 — 2014 Barrett Lectures — National Science Foundation
Dr. Vasileios Maroulas
- 9/1/2013 — Large deviations for stochastic systems and applications — Simons Foundation
- 8/1/2014 — GO! PGM Indices of Bioenergy Sustainability — UT-Battelle
- 1/8/2015 — Analyzing Data-Specific Model-Selection Criteria — UT-Battelle
- 2/15/2015 — A distributed sparsity-cognizant framework for dynamic tracking of multiple threats — Univ of Texas @ Arlington
- 3/1/2015 — The 2015 John Barrett Memorial Lectures: Stochastic Filtering, Computations and Applications — Univ of Minnesota IMA
- 3/15/2015 — The 2015 John Barrett Memorial Lectures — National Science Foundation
- 2/15/2016 — A distributed sparsity-cognizant framework for dynamic tracking of multiple threats — Univ of Texas @ Arlington
- 4/1/2017 — The 2017 John Barrett Memorial Lectures: Mathematical Foundations of Data Sciences — National Science Foundation
- 4/1/2017 — The 2017 John Barrett Memorial Lectures: Mathematical Foundations of Data Sciences — Univ of Minnesota IMA
- 7/1/2017 — 3.1 Modeling of Complex Systems: Construction of distributions on complex topological spaces of signals and their application to machine learning and state estimation — Army
- 10/1/2017 — Topological Learning for EEG Data — Thor Industries, Inc.
- 8/15/2018 — Online spatiotemporal filtering and Bayesian topology for tracking in dynamically designed sensor networks — National Science Foundation
Dr. Tadele Mengesha
- 8/1/2014 — Mathematical Theory of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Models — National Science Foundation
- 9/1/2015 — Workshop for Nonlocal Models in Mathematics, Computation, Science, and Engineering — National Science Foundation
- 8/15/2016 — Mathematical Analysis on Peridynamic Models — National Science Foundation
Dr. Remus Nicoara
- 9/1/2012 — The Tenth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium — National Science Foundation
Dr. Tuoc Phan
- 2/11/2016 — The 46th John Barrett Memorial Lectures – Modeling and Analysis of Nonlinear PDE Models in Spatial Ecology — University of Minnesota
Dr. Conrad Plaut
- 1/1/2002 — Appalachian Scholars in Computer Science and Mathematics — National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2005 — EMSW21-MCTP – Math Honors Program — National Science Foundation
- 10/1/2006 — REU Site in Mathematics at The University of Tennessee — National Science Foundation
- 4/15/2013 — Barrett Lectures — National Science Foundation
- 10/13/2014 — Moment methods for transport equations — UT-Battelle
- 1/1/2015 — Moment Methods for Kinetic Equations — UT-Battelle
- 1/8/2015 — Analyzing Data-Specific Model-Selection Criteria — UT-Battelle
- 8/1/2016 — Smoky Great Plains Geometry Conference 2016 — National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2016 — Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (N. Dexter) — UT-Battelle
- 8/16/2017 — Analysis of asymptotic limits of hyperbolic relaxation laws — UT-Battelle
- 6/1/2018 — Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Particle Correlation — UT-Battelle
Dr. Stefan Richter
- 6/15/2000 — Operator inequalities, reproducing kernels, and invariant subspaces — National Science Foundation
- 5/1/2003 — Invariant Subspaces in Spaces of Analytic Functions — National Science Foundation
- 4/1/2005 — Southeastern Analysis Meeting — National Science Foundation
- 5/1/2006 — Analysis on Spaces of Analytic Functions — National Science Foundation
- 3/15/2007 — Southeastern Analysis Meeting — National Science Foundation
- 10/1/2009 — Operator Theory and Function Theory for the Unit Ball of C^d — National Science Foundation
- 2/1/2013 — A Conference on Hilbert Function spaces — National Science Foundation
- 2/1/2017 — Southeastern Analysis Meeting 2017 — National Science Foundation
- 4/1/2017 — Hilbert Function Spaces 2017 — National Science Foundation
Dr. Jan Rosinski
- 9/1/2002 — Isotropic Stable Random Fields and Infinite Dimensional Stochastic Integrals — National Science Foundation
- 5/7/2008 — Infinitely Divisible Processes: Stationarity, Dependence Structure and Sample Paths — NSA
- 5/15/2010 — Support for the US Participants of the 6th Levy Conference — National Science Foundation
- 9/1/2013 — Levy systems and non-Gaussian chaos — Simons Foundation
Dr. Abner Salgado
- 8/15/2014 — Numerical Analysis of Selected Variational and Quasi-variational Inequalities — National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2017 — Approximation of Singular Solutions to Nonlocal and Nonlinear Models — National Science Foundation
- 4/1/2020 — The 50th John Barrett Memorial Lectures: A3N2M: Approximation, Applications, and Analysis of Nonlocal, Nonlinear Models — National Science Foundation
Dr. Timothy Schulze
- 8/1/2001 — Continum Modeling and Analysis of Epitaxial Film Growth — National Science Foundation
- 10/1/2001 — Numerical Algorithms That Improve Efficiency of Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations — PRINCETON UNIVERSITY –
- 9/15/2003 — Integrated Multiscale Modeling of Molecular Computing Devices — Department of Energy
- 8/15/2004 — The Mushy-Zone Free-Boundary Problem — National Science Foundation
- 9/12/2005 — Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics at University of California at Los Angeles — UCLA
- 8/15/2007 — Fast Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Crystal Growth and Evolution — National Science Foundation
- 9/1/2007 — Multi-Scale Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science — National Science Foundation
- 7/1/2009 — FRG: Collaborative Research: Modeling and Computation of Crystalline Nanostructures — National Science Foundation
- 10/1/2011 — Kinetic Monte Carlo modeling and simulation of grain and phase boundaries— National Science Foundation
- 6/15/2016 — Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Nanoalloy Crystal Growth — National Science Foundation
Dr. Fernando Schwartz Weinberger
- 2/15/2011 — Barrett Lectures — National Science Foundation
Dr. Kenneth Stephenson
- 7/23/2001 — Collaborative Research: Computational Conformal Mapping and Scientific Visualization — National Science Foundation
- 6/15/2006 — Computational Uniformization — National Science Foundation
- 6/1/2007 — Complex Analysis Projects with Accompanying Applets — National Science Foundation
- 1/1/2010 — 2010 Barrett Memorial Lectures, Discrete Differential Geometry and Applications — University of Minnesota
- 4/15/2010 — The 2010 Barrett Lectures: Discrete Differential Geometry and Applications — National Science Foundation
- 9/1/2011 — Collaborative Research in Circle Packing and Discrete Conformal Geometry — Simons Foundatiion
Dr. Morwen Thistlethwaite
- 8/15/2007 — Scientific Computing Research Environments for the Mathematical Sciences— National Science Foundation
- 7/1/2011 — Deformations of hyperbolic 3-manifold groups and related topics — Simons Foundation
Dr. Grozdena Todorova
- 5/1/2003 — Dynamics of Nonlinear Wave Equations — National Science Foundation
- 4/1/2005 — Barrett Lectures: New Developments in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations— National Science Foundation
Dr. Clayton Webster
- 9/15/2016 — Collaborative research: Mathematical methods for optimal polynomial recovery of high-dimensional systems from sparse and noisy data — National Science Foundation
Dr. Steven Wise
- 9/15/2008 — Collaborative Research: Multiscale Modeling of Solid Tumor Growth — National Science Foundation
- 7/15/2011 — Collaborative Research: Stable and Efficient Convexity Splitting Schemes for Bistable Gradient PDEs — National Science Foundation
- 9/1/2014 — Efficient, Adaptive, and Convergent Numerical Methods for Phase Field and Phase Field Crystal Equations with Applications — National Science Foundation
- 6/15/2017 — Modeling and Simulation of Ion Transport in Polymer Systems and Novel Discrete Ordinate Methods for Modeling Radiation Transport via Kinetic Equations. — UT-Battelle
- 7/21/2017 — Physics-Based, self-consistent simulation of neutron reflectivity for thin films of block copolymers with Incorporated nanaparticles — UT-Battelle
- 5/28/2018 — Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization and Regularized Problems Expressed via Steady of Dynamical Systems — UT-Battelle
- 1/1/2019 — Multi-level approximations for computing statistics in molecular dynamics calculations — UT-Battelle
Dr. Yulong Xing
- 12/9/2004 — Development of high-order accurate numerical methods for the shallow-water equations and other hyperbolic conversation laws with source terms — National Science Foundation
Dr. Jie Xiong
- 4/4/2002 — Some Particle Systems With Branching and Interaction — NSA
- 1/1/2009 — The 2009 John H. Barrett Memorial Lectures — National Science Foundation
- 8/1/2009 — Some Related problems for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations & Backward Stochastic Differential Equations — National Science Foundation