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Faculty |
Department |
Research Expertise and Capabilities |
Applications |
| Adler, Michael | Anthropology | Archaeology, Indigenous Peoples of the American Southwest, Cultural Affiliation, Ethnogenesis | |
| Allor, Jill | Literacy, Language, and Learning | reading instruction, reading disabilities, literacy, learning disabilities, mental retardation and reading | |
| Armendariz, Al | Environmental and Civil Engineering |
air quality environmental engineering atmospheric sciences |
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Mathematics |
numerical analysis, scientific computing, mathematical biology, mathematical models, multi-scale models, partial differential equations |
cancer, ecology, genetics, resource management, forests |
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Statistical Science; Engineering Management, Information, and Systems |
Queueing theory. Probability models for computer and communication systems. Reliability and statistics. Applied probability and stochasic processes. |
Analysis of computer and communication traffic. Developing probability models of traffic for decision making. Reliability determination. |
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| Blackwell, David D. | Geological Sciences | Geothermal Exploration, Heat Flow, Oil and Gas Reservoirs, Thermal Conductivity, Basin Flow Modeling, | Resource assessment related to geothermal development, On-site Borehole Temperature-Depth Logging, Sample analysis for thermal conductivity, Temperature-depth curve analysis to help with well steering, Mapping of Geophysical data, Thermal Modeling of Oil and Gas fields |
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networks, Internet, security, traffic control, telecommunications |
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| Downing, Joe | Corporate Communication & Public Affairs | Employee crisis communication practices in the airline industry; understanding how communication competence of call center agents relates with their ability to upsell customers | |
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Economics |
Time series analysis, econometrics, data mining, forecasting, seasonal adjustment of time series data, decision theory, economics of education, economics of aging |
Development of new statistical techniques, policy analysis is the fields of aging and education. |
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Geological Sciences |
Seismology, Infrasound, Acoustics, signal processing, seismometry, instrumentation, seismo-acoustic, robotics, imaging, visualization |
Seismic and infrasound instrument development, solid earth geophysics basic research, seismo-acoustic monitoring, seismic signal detection, location and discrimination, earthquake and manmade source phenomenology studies, global seismic and acoustic monitoring, robot applications development,3-D image creation and processing |
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Psychology |
Family functioning, family counseling, family assessment, families and obesity, families and children's hope/optimism |
Family-based
interventions for adolescent obesity |
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| Jacobs, Bonnie | Geological Sciences | paleobotany, paleoclimate, Africa, paleoecology, climate change, palynology | climate change research |
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Mechanical Engineering |
Area: Advanced
Manufacturing |
well equipped laboratories at the Research Center for Advanced Manufacturing |
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Electrical Engineering |
Antennas,
electomagnetic scattering and propsgation, RF electronics |
Antenna development for wireless communications. |
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Statistical Science |
bioinformatics, missing-data imputation, Markov-Chain Monte Carlo methods, and spectral analysis |
Gene expression microarray preprocessing, microRNA arrays & search algorithms, statistical genetics, various medical research applications. |
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Economics |
schooling, education, pollution, firm location, foreign direct investment, children, marriage, discrimination, collusion, treatment effects, stochastic dominance, distributional analysis, political institutions |
treatment effects models |
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Environmental and Civil Engineering |
Earthquake engineering, Seismic analysis, seismic design, structural dynamics, structural engineering, finite element methods. |
Analysis and design of building, infrastructures, constructed facilities, aerospace structures. |
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Mathematics |
Numerical analysis, scientific computing, reaction-diffusion, finite element methods |
Reaction diffusion systems |
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Computer Science and Engineering |
Network Security, Network Reliability, Software and Application Security, Sensor Networks, Security Threat Analysis and Prediction |
Cyber Infrastructure Protection |
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| Olness, Fredrick I. | Physics | Numerical Analysis; Mathematica Computational Modeling; Mathematics; Musical Acoustics; Physics; High Energy Physics | |
| Eli Olinick | EMIS | combinatorial optimization, mathematical programming, operations research | applied optimization and network design problems |
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Statistical Science |
Nonparametrics, statistical computing, curve and surface estimation, local-linear, wavelets, rank-based methods, simulation, resampling, jackknife, bootstrap, regression trees, biostatistics, robustness of minimum distance estimators. |
Medical imaging, bioinformatics, diagnostic classifiers |
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| Skinner, Bob | Academic Computing Services | multimedia, gaming, instructional technology | |
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Statistics |
Sampling, data analysis, survey methods |
Planning sample designs, Analyzing data from surveys or experiments |
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| Szygenda, Stephen | CSE & EMIS | Electronic Computer Aided Design,Systems Engineering, Technology Entrepreneurship,Simulation and Test of digital systems | Design of hardware and software electronic devices and systems, Development and management of technology based ventures |
| Mathematics | Numerical analysis, scientific computing, boundary element method, finite elements, numerical linear algebra | Electromagnetics, optics, fluids, elasticity | |
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CSE |
Software engineering, Software reliability analysis and improvement, Software measurement, defect analysis, and modeling, Software and embedded system safety, Web reliability analysis and improvement |
Commercial software systems, Embedded software and systems, Web-based applications and systems, Telecommunication software and systems Open source software products |
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| Walther, John V. | Geological Sciences | hydrothermal; thermodynamics; solubility; solutions; surface reactions; minerals | Measure solubility of minerals to 3 kbar and 650 deg. C. Mineral surface titrations to characterize absorbed species as a function of solution composition. Measure the concentration of elements in aqueous solutions. |
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Chemistry |
polymers,
inorganic polymers, polyphosphazenes, blends, graft copolymers, inorganic
rings, cyclic phosphazenes, synthesis, gas permeability, molecular recognition,
ligands |
polymer synthesis, flame retardant polymers, molecular recognition agents, membranes, electronic materials, biomaterials |
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