Professor Frederic Wan's Curriculum Vitae



	Curriculum Vitae

	Frederic Yui-Ming Wan Department of Mathematics University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3875 Phone: (949) 824-5529 Fax: (949) 824-7993 Email: fwan@uci.edu Education S.B. in Mathematics, M.I.T., June, 1959 S.M. in Mathematics, M.I.T., June, 1963 Ph.D. in Mathematics, M.I.T., September, 1965 Positions Held Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine (1995 - ) Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UC Irvine (1995 - ) Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine (1999 - ) Faculty Athletics Representative, UC Irvine (2000 - 04) Vice Chancellor for Research & Dean of Graduate Studies, UC Irvine (1995 - 2000) Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mathematics, University of Washington (1983 - 94) Divisional Dean for Natural and Math. Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences (1988 - 1992) Chairman of the Department of Applied Mathematics (1984 - 88) Professor of Mathematics, University of British Columbia (1974 - 83) Director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics & Statistics (1974 - 83) Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, M.I.T. (1969 - 74); Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, (1967 - 69); Instructor of Mathematics, (1965 - 67) Staff Member, Lincoln Laboratory, M.I.T. (1959 - 65) Division of Director, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation, January, 1993 - December 31, 1994 (IPA from University of Washington) Program Director, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation, 1986 - 87 (Visiting Scientist from UW) Canadian NSERC (National Science and Engineering Research Council) Committee on Pure and Applied Mathematics: Member 1979 - 82 and Chairman 1981 - 82, concurrent with UBC appointment Visiting Scholar, Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, 1979 - 80 Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, M.I.T., 1973 - 74 Visiting Associate of Applied Mechanics, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech, September 1972 - January 1973 ARO-D (Army Research Office-Durham) Summer Scientific Advisor, 1971 and 1972 (a maximum of two consecutive terms) CAMROC (Cambridge Radio Observatory Committee), MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Tupperware, Dart Industries, Army Materials and Mechanics Center at Watertown, Foster-Miller Associates, SW Industries, Flow Industries, B.C. Research, Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia, Acrowood Corp., etc. Selected Honors and Awards Sloan Foundation Award (1973) Canadian NSERC Operating Grant (1975 - 85) UBC Killam Foundation Senior Fellowship (1979) NSF Research Grant, Co-PI (1983 - 86, 1986 - 89, 1989 - 92, 1992 - 95) NSF SCREMS Grant (DMS-0112416, PI, 2001 - 02) PHS - NIH General Med Science R01 Grant (GM-67247, PI, 2002 - 06) PHS - NIH General Med Science P20 Grant (GM-066051, Co-PI, 2002 - 05) Sigma XI (elected Associate Member in 1963 and Member in 1965) Fellow of American Academy of Mechanics since 1982, Secretary of the Fellows (1984 - 89), President (1992 - 93) Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) since 1988. The Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award, Canadian Appl. Math. Society, 1991. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1994. Certification of Appreciation (in recognition for Outstanding Service and Achievements as Director, Division of Mathematical Sciences), National Science Foundation, 1994. Foreign Member, The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, since 1999 Teaching Excellence Award, School of Physical Sciences at U.C. Irvine (2004) Professional Services* Associate Editor (currently only): Studies in Applied Mathematics (1984 - ), Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly (1993 - ), International J. Solids & Structures (1996 - ) Society Membership Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, Representative on the US. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Science Policy Committee member); Canadian Applied Mathematics Society (CAMS, past service as Council Member and President) American Mathematical Society (AMS, past service on Committee of Committees and Committee on Science) Advisory Committees: MIT Educational Council (1974 - 79) Visiting Committee for Mathematics, MIT (1991 - 93) Recent Presentations (broken down by year): 2004-05 - SIAM Conferences on the Life Sciences (7/11-16/04, Portland, OR), AIM's 5th Int'l Conf. on Dyn. Syst. & Diff. Eq'ns (6/16-19/04, Pomona, CA); 2003-04 - Int'l Conf. Math. & Its Applications (5/28-31/04, City Univ. of Hong Kong), Math. Seminar (5/21/04, Peking Univ.), Mechanics Seminar (5/14/04, Peking Univ.), Comp. Math. Seminar (4/23/04, Xian Jaotong Univ.), Mechanics Seminar (4/9/04, Tsinghua Univ.), 5th ICIAM (7/7-11/03, Sydney, Australia); 2002-03 - W.M. Keck Seminars in Comp. Biology (5/21/03, UCLA), 3rd So.Calif. Appl. Math. Symp. (5/3/2003, UC Irvine), Annual SIAM Meeting (7/8-12/2002, Philadelphia, PA). Publications (130 plus publications). a) My Own Favorite Journal Articles 27. Linear partial differential equations with random forcing, Studies in Appl. Math. 51, 1972, Pgs 163-178. 42. Extraction costs in the theory of exhaustible resources, Bell J. of Economics 7, 1976, Pgs 359-370. (Also presented at U.S. National Bureau of Economics Research Workshop on Resource Economics, Stanford, May, 1975). (with R.M. Solow, citations >75) 47. The response of a spatially distributed neuron to a white noise current injection, Biological Cybernetics 33, 1979, Pgs 39-55. (with H.C. Tuckwell) 58. Neuronal firing and input variability, J. Theoret. Neurobiol. 1, 1982, Pgs 197-218. (with H.C. Tuckwell) 67. Finite polar dimpling of shallow caps under sub-buckling axistmmetric pressure distributions, SIAM J. of Appl. Math. 44, 1984, Pgs 301-326. (Also presented at the XVth ICTAM, Toronto, 1980.) (with D.F. Parker) 68. The interspike interval of a cable model neuron with white noise input, Biological Cybernetics 49, 1984, Pgs 155-167. (with H.C. Tuckwell and Y.S. Wong) 72. First passage time of Markov processes to moving barriers, J. Appl. Probability 21, 1984, Pgs 695-709. (with Henry C. Tuckwell) 77. On plate theories and Saint-Venant's Principle, Int'l. J. Solids & Structures 21, 1985, Pgs 1005-1024. (with R.D. Gregory, citations > 55) 80. Ordered site access and optimal forest rotation, Studies in Applied Math. 73, 1985, Pgs 155-175. (Also presented at CAMS/SCMA Annual Meeting, Edmonton, June, 1985) b) Ten Most Recent Publications: 119. Effect of non-linearity on lateral buckling of end-loaded cantilevers with transverse shear deformations, Advances in the Mechanics of Plates and Shells, the Libai Festschrift, eds. D. Durban, D. Givoli, & J.G. Simmonds, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, Pgs 343-350. 120. An asymptotic analysis of the three-dimensional displacements and stresses in a spherical shell under inward radially opposed concentrated surface loads, Int. J. Solids Structures 38, 2001, Pgs 6869-6887. (with J.G. Simmonds) 121. The Nonlinear Theory of Elastic Shells, 2nd Ed., SIAM Reviews 43, 2001, Pgs 744-747. (a book review) 122. The cantilever strip plate of varying thickness and the centre of shear, Quart. J. Mech. App. Math. 55, 2002, Pgs. 29-48. (with R.D. Gregory and C.Gu) 123. A spatial stochastic neuronal model with Ornstein-Uhlenbeck input current, Biol. Cybern. 86, 2002, Pgs 137-145. (with H.C. Tuckwell & J.-P. Rospars) 124. Do morphogen gradients arise by diffusion?, Dev. Cell, vol. 2, 2002, 785-796. (with A.D. Lander and Q. Nie, citations > 25) 125. Determination of Firing Times for the Stochastic Fitzhugh-Nagumo Neuronal Model, Neural Comp., vol. 15, 2003, 143-159. (with H.C. Tuckwell and Rodriguez) 126. Stress Boundary conditions for plate bending, Int. J. Solids Structures 40, 2003, Pgs 4107- 4123. 127. Can morphogen activity be enhanced by its inhibitors?, Proc. 2nd MIT Conf. on Comp. Mech. 2, Ed. K.J. Bathe, Elsevier Science Ltd, 2003, 1729-1734. (with J. Kao et al) 128. Bifurcation Analysis of Shallow Spherical Shells with Meridionally Nonuniform Loading, Proc. IUTAM Sympo. on Complementary, Duality and Symmetry, Ed. David Gao, Kluwer 2004 Academic Publ. Norwell MA, pp 141-157. (with C.G. Lange) 129. Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems in the Stability Analysis of Morphogen Gradients, Studies in Appl. Math. 113, 2004, Pgs. 183-215. (with Y. Lou and Q. Nie) Last Few Ph.D. Students: Professor Yihan Lin, Department of Applied Mechanics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Dr. Chonghua Gu, Mathsoft, Seattle, Washington Professor Thomas I. Milac, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Dr. Alexander Sadovsky, Institute of Bio-Informatics, University of California at Irvine Benjamin Vargas, Mathematics, UCI, in progress Mitchell Khong, Mathematics, UCI, in progress *Funding was provided through a surrogate PI to support my graduate student while serving as the Division Director of the Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF). As vice chancellor and dean at UCI for the period 1995-2000, I was paid 12 months full-time and could not work on a grant without reducing my administrative commitment.
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