Biographical Sketch John Ringland September 2007 Professional Preparation Leicester University, England Physics w. Astrophysics B.Sc. 1977 Ohio University Physics M.S. 1979 University of Texas at Austin Physics Ph.D. 1987 Southern Methodist University Chemistry Post-doc 1987-89 Yale University / Brown University Mechanical Engineering/ Applied Mathematics Post-doc 1990 Appointments Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mathematics Department, Univerisity at Buffalo, SUNY, 2003-present Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Feb-May 1999. Associate Professor of Mathematics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, 1996 - present Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, 1990 - 96 Relevant Publications A Situation in which a Local Nontoxic Refuge Promotes Pest Resistance To Toxic Crops by J. Mohammed-Awel, K. Kopecky* and J. Ringland, Theor. Pop. Biol. 71, 131-146 (2007). *undergraduate honors thesis advisee BH: An Experimental Tool for Topological Surface Dynamics (http://orange.math.buffalo.edu/BH/index.html), developed under NSF grant DMS 9200881 with W. Menasco. Synergistic Activities 1. As Director of Undergraduate Studies, quadrupled number of Undergraduate Honors Theses written in period 2005-07 over average of previous decade. 2. Developed new course MTH 337 Introduction to Scientific and Mathematical Computing, to run for the first time in Spring 2008. 3. Reactivated undergraduate course MTH 455 Mathematical Modeling (2005), with a new syllabus that emphasized synthesis of knowledge from students' prior math courses, computing, and team problem-solving. 4. SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996. 5. Developed new sophomore-level course (1996) in Ordinary Differential Equations (MTH 306) which integrated use of Maple software and computer lab, and replaced existing course (MTH 242). Collaborators & Other Affiliations Collaborators Karen Brucks, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Naoum Issa, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago Karen Kopecky, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada William Menasco, Mathematics Department, University at Buffalo Jemal Mohammed-Awel, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Valdosta State University, GA Mark Schell, Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University Charles Tresser, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY Graduate Advisor and Postdoctoral Sponsors Prof. Jack S. Turner, Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Mark Schell, Chemistry Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX. K. R. Sreenivasan, Abdus Salam Honorary Professor and Director, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. Prof. Lawrence Sirovich, Center for Fluid Mechanics, Brown University. Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor Ph.D. thesis advisees: 1. Prof. Jemal Mohammed-Awel, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Valdosta State University, GA. (PhD granted 2006). 2. Prasanth George, Mathematics Department, University at Buffalo, SUNY. (Current) 3. Chen Zhang, Mathematics Department, University at Buffalo, SUNY. (Current) Masters thesis advisee: 1. Yishan Li, L'Oreal Corporation, Shanghai, China. Total number of graduate students advised: 4..