Roger T. Lewis
Department of Mathematics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama 35294
E-mail:lewis@math.uab.edu
Fax: (205) 934-9025
Telephone: (205) 934-2154

 

Educational Background 

A.B. 1964, Ph.D. 1972, University of Tennessee 

Graduate Advisor: Don B. Hinton 

 

Professional Experience 

 

2006 – present       Professor Emeritus

 

 

 

 

 

2001-2003
1997 - 2001

Program Director
Professor and Chair

National Science Foundation (DMS), Arlington, VA
UAB

 

Spring 1995

Fulbright Professor 

University of Oslo, Norway

 

1984-1987

Professor and Chair

UAB

 

Spring 1982

Senior Visiting Fellow 

University of Dundee, Scotland

 

1981 - 2006

Professor

UAB

 

1977 - 1981

Associate  Professor

UAB

 

1975 - 1977

Assistant Professor

UAB

 

1972 - 1975

Assistant Professor

Slippery Rock State College, Pennsylvania

 

1969 - 1970

Instructor

University of Tennessee

 

1968-1969, 70-72 

Teaching Assistant

University of Tennessee

 

1967-1968

Engineer

Radiation Inc. (now Harris Corp.), Melbourne, FL

 

1966-1967

Mathematician

RCA Service Corp., Patrick AFB, Florida

 

1964-1966

Mathematician

Ballistics Research Labs.,  Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland 

 

 

Selected Grants Received 

``Qualitative Spectral Analysis of Singular Ordinary and Elliptic Partial Differential Equations," National Science Foundation, MCS-8005811, 1980-82 .

``Qualitative Spectral Analysis of Singular Ordinary and Partial Differential Operators," National Science Foundation, MCS-8005811-01, 1982-84.

``International Conference on Differential Equations," National Science Foundation, MCS-8214420, 1983, Co-PI: Ian Knowles.

``Qualitative Spectral Analysis of Singular Partial Differential Operators," National Science Foundation, DMS-8503331, 1985-87.

``Improving the Competitiveness of Mathematical Research at UAB," NSF EPSCoR in Alabama, RII-8610669, 1986-91.

``Some Problems in Partial Differential Equations," National Science Foundation, DMS-8719027, 1987-89, Co-PI's: Ian Knowles and Yoshimi Saito.

``Properties of Eigenvalues of Schrödinger, Dirac, and Related Operators," NATO Collaborative Research Grant, NATO CRG 920025, 1992-1994, Co-PI's: J. Donig, W.D. Evans, and H. Siedentop.

"Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics," The Norwegian Marshall Fund,  Oslo, Norway, 1994.

``UAB-GIT International Conference on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics," NSF DMS-9319126, 1994, Co-PI Marius Nkashama.

"Mathematics Infrastructure in Alabama," NSF EPSCoR in Alabama, 1995-1998.

"The UAB 2005 International Conference on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics," NSF DMS-0455211, 2005-2006, Co-PI’s Nikolai Chernov, Yulia Karpeshina, Ian Knowles, and Rudi Weikard.


 
 

Awards 

Lecturing/Research Award, Fulbright Foundation for Educational Exchange, 1995.

Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Award for Scholarly Distinction, 1995.

Professional Service

Program Director for the National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, 2001-2003

National Screening Committee for the Fulbright-Hays Program, Institute of International Education

Reviewer for the National Science Foundation

Reviewer for the International Science Foundation

Referee for several journals

P.I. for the Mathematics Component of the NSF EPSCoR in Alabama, 1986-91

Assistant Project Director for Mathematics, NSF EPSCoR in Alabama, 1992-98

Research Interests

I am interested in the spectral analysis of differential operators of mathematical physics. Research in this area has been concerned with eigenvalue problems of Schrödinger operators including N-body operators associated with atoms and molecules in magnetic fields.


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