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Eugene C. Gartland, Jr.
(Chuck Gartland)

Professor of Mathematics
Professor, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program

Kent State University

My home department is the Department of Mathematical Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University. The Department offers degree programs at the bachelor, masters, and doctoral levels in mathematics and applied mathematics. I am actively involved in the Applied Mathematics Program.

My training is in numerical analysis. My current interests are in the areas of computational applied mathematics, in general, and computational problems in liquid crystals, in particular. My interest in liquid crystals stems from the fact that there exists at Kent a major research institute devoted to their study: the Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI).

I am also a member of the program faculty of the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program (CPIP).  I also served for 4 years (2000-2004) as Treasurer of the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS), a professional organization with nearly 1,000 members, from more that 40 countries.

More information about administration, awards, grants, publications, and students is available in my short vita.

Activities, Groups, and Interests

• Kent State University
• Kent College of Arts & Sciences
• Kent Math Sci Dept:
• ICM (Institute for Computational Mathematics):
• ETNA (Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, electronic journal)
• SymbolicNet (Symbolic Mathematical Computation Information Center)
• technical reports (ICM series)
• mathematical and numerical software (on our network):
• GNUPLOT plotting package
• Maple symbolic computation system
• Matlab scientific computing and visualization system
• LAPACK fortran library for numerical linear algebra
• NAG Fortran Library (comprehensive mathematical and statistical software)
• LCI (Liquid Crystal Institute):
• ALCOM Center (NSF Science and Technology Center)
• CPIP Program (graduate instructional program)
• SMMM (Soft Matter Mathematical Modelling, Univ of Pavia)
  
• ILCS (International Liquid Crystal Society)
• Science Behind LCD TV (courtesy of Lake Placid Middle School)
• SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
• AMS (American Mathematical Society)
  
• IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Univ of Minnesota)
  
• IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA)
  
• SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Research Triangle Park)
  
• Argonne MCS (Math/CS Division at Argonne National Lab, including optimization software and resources)
• NSF (National Science Foundation)
• NRC (National Research Council)
• NA-Net (Numerical Analysis Net, including NA Digest and NA White pages)
• Netlib (mathematical software repository)
• GAMS (Guide to Available Mathematical Software at NIST)
• DLMF (Digital Library of Mathematical Functions at NIST)
• Computational Science:
• reading list (from Rubin Landau)
• Numerical Methods Resource Page (mirror maintained at SUNY Stony Brook)
• sources of software (from Michael Heath's book on Scientific Computing)
• WWW and HTML reference materials (from Paul Farrell)

Teaching

Spring 2012:

        MATH 32052 Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences II

        MATH 6/72264 Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Systems and Optimization Problems

Fall 2013:

TBD

Here is the Very Basic GNUPLOT intro.

Here are the Maple worksheets , Matlab M-Files , and C and Fortran programs for examples discussed in class.

Weekly Schedule

Contact Information

	to Kent Department of Mathematical Sciences home page
	to Kent State University home page