CURRICULUM VITA : Lawrence S. Husch
Revised January, 2002
EDUCATION:
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
- NSF Cooperative Graduate Fellow, Florida State University, 1963-66
- Research Assistant and Part-time Instructor, Florida State University, 1966-67
- Assistant Professor, University of Georgia, 1967-69
- Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Inst., 1969-70
- Associate Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., 1970-71
- Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, 1971-1975
- Professor, University of Tennessee, 1975-2002
- Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee, 2002-
- Visiting Research Scientist, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Yugoslavia 1976-1977
- Fulbright Distinguished Scientist, University of Zagreb, Zagreb and Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Jugoslavia, 1986.
- Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1990-1.
AWARDS:
SOFTWARE
- "Freshman Calculus" two disk package for the Burroughs B20 system; includes student manual. Was available through Unisys Sponsored Research Products.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Embeddings of compacta, topological structure of fractals, topological dynamics.
THESES AND MASTER'S PROJECTS
- Roberta Geist, "The Space of Closed Subsets of a Topological Space," M.S., March, 1973.
- Thomas Eck, "Topological characterizations of the contraction, rotation and translation in E2 ," M.S., August, 1975.
- Virginia Adams, "Analysis of the time delay in a host-parasite model," M.S., August, 1975.
- Thomas Milton, "A stochastic simulation model of influenza," June, 1977, College Scholars Program. (Work was initiated under my direction. Professor Clark was supervisor during September, 1976 - June, 1977 while I was in Zagreb.)
- W. Cain, "Control Theory on Manifolds", Ph.D., June, 1978.
- J. Stoughton, "Relative S-fibrations", Ph.D., June, 1978.
- J. Emert, "Defining and Distinguishing 'Twisted' Lens Spaces", Ph.D., August, 1989.
- Matthew Blackmon, "The Application of Newton's Method to Rational Functions: A Fractal Interpretation", Tennessee Scholars' Program Senior Thesis, May 1990.
- Marek Galecki, "Enhanced Cohomology and Obstruction Theory", Ph.D., August, 1993.
- Kenneth M. Elliott, III, Topology Master's Project, August, 1996.
- Richard Rupp, "Tessellations: A topological, geometric, and algebraic study", Master's Project, May 1997.
- Fei-Ye Yew, "Number Systems, Iterated Function Systems and Fractals", M.S., August, 1999.
- Thomas Cooper, "Using the Maple Computer Algebra System as a Tool for Studying Group Theory," M.S., May 2002.