Courtney S. Coleman

Professional History:

• Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College and Claremont Graduate School.
• A.B., University of California (Berkeley) 1951
• Ph.D., Princeton University 1955
• Instructor, Princeton University 1954-55
• Assistant Professor Wesleyan University 1955-59
• Research Mathematician, Research Institute for Advanced Studies (Martin-Marietta Co.) 1958-59, 1963-64
• NSF Science Faculty Fellow, Oxford University, 1979-1980
• Visiting Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University and Tecnopolis, Bari, Italy, 1986-87
• Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, Harvey Mudd College, 1959-present.
• Chairman, Harvey Mudd Department of Mathematics [several terms]
• Director, Harvey Mudd Mathematics Clinic, 1977-78

Some Recent Professional Activities

• "Poe's Pendulum'', with R.L. Borrelli and D.D. Hobson, it Math. Mag, 58 (1985), 78-83.
• "Dynamical Equivalence and Unbounded Polynomial Differential Systems'',it Nonlin. Anal., Theory, Meth., Appl., 12(1988), 1257-1261.
• "Combat Models'', "Hilbert's 16th Problem: How Many Cycles'', "Biological Cycles and the Five-Fold Way'', "Quadratic Population Models: Almost Never Any Cycles'', chapters in Differential Equation Models edited by M. Braun, C.S. Coleman, D.A. Drew, V. 1 of Modules in Applied Mathematics, edited by W. Lucas, Springer-Verlag, 1983.
• Differential Equations: A Modeling Approach, with R.L. Borrelli [Prentice-Hall, 1987].
• Co-translator and editor of Local Methods in Nonlinear Differential Equations, A.D. Bruno, 350 pp., Springer-Verlag, 1989 [Russian original published in Moscow, 1979].
• "Models for Applied Analysis -- A Handbook for Projects'', with R.L. Borrelli and J. Becker (1980).
• Editorial Boards: it Journal of Differential Equations, UMAP Journal, AMS Comm. on Transl. from Russian, Interface.
• Faculty advisor for Math Clinic projects: most recently for a project with NASA on "Real-time predictions of aircraft wing flutter'', (1987-88).
• Faculty advisor for the preparation of a handbook of computer problems in applied differential equations (current).
• Delivered a set of forty lectures on mathematical models for an audience of graduate mathematicians at Tecnopolis, Bari, Italy (1985, 1987).
• Co-author (with R.L. Borrelli and W. Boyce), Differential Equations Laboratory\break Workbook (to be published by Wiley).
• Associate Director, Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 1988-.