Linda J. S. Allen

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Linda J. S. Allen
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Linda Joy Svoboda Allen
Education
Occupation(s)Mathematician and mathematical biologist
Employer Texas Tech University

Linda Joy Svoboda Allen is an American mathematician and mathematical biologist, the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University. [1]

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Education and career

Allen earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1975 from the College of St. Scholastica, and a master's degree in 1978 and doctorate in 1978 from the University of Tennessee. [2] Her dissertation, Applications of Differential Inequalities to Persistence and Extinction Problems for Reaction-Diffusion Systems, was supervised by Thomas G. Hallam. [2] [3]

After working as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, she joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 1982, and then moved to Texas Tech in 1985. [2]

Recognition

In 2015 the Association for Women in Mathematics and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) honored her as their AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer "for outstanding contributions in ordinary differential equations, difference equations and stochastic models, with significant applications in the areas of infectious diseases and ecology". [1] In 2016 she became a SIAM Fellow. [4] [5]

Books

Allen is the author of three books:


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References

  1. 1 2 Professor awarded distinguished lecture for contributions to mathematics, Texas Tech University, retrieved 2017-07-01
  2. 1 2 3 Abbreviated Vita, retrieved 2017-07-01
  3. Linda J. S. Allen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Mathematics professor named a 2016 SIAM Fellow, Texas Tech University, retrieved 2017-07-01
  5. SIAM Fellows: Class of 2016, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, retrieved 2017-07-01
  6. Reviews of An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology:
    • Nanda, Seema; Gross, Louis (September 2004), SIAM Review, 46 (3): 583–584, JSTOR   20453553 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Miao, Hongyu (2011), Mathematical Reviews, MR   2560499 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Temple, Kathy (January 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews
  7. Akman, Füsun (January 2014), "How to utilize L. J. S. Allen's An Introduction to Mathematical Biology in a biomathematics course", Letters in Biomathematics, 1 (2): 127–137, doi: 10.1080/23737867.2014.11414475