Selected Recent Publications

• Michael Pilant and William Rundell, ``The Neumann Problem for an Equation of Lavrent'ev-Bitsadze Type,'' Journal of Math. Anal. Appl., v. 106, no. 2, pp. 321-359, March 1985. [MR 86i:35104]
• K. Hollig and M. Pilant, ``Regularity of the Free Boundary for the Porous Medium Equation,'' Indiana University Mathematics Journal, v. 34, no. 4, pp. 723-733, Winter 1985. [MR 87k:35252]
• Michael Pilant and William Rundell, ``Undetermined Coefficient Problems for Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations,'' I.S.N.M. 77, pp. 139-154, 1987. [MR 88i:35175]
• Michael Pilant and William Rundell, ``A uniqueness theorem for determining conductivity from overspecified boundary data,'' Journal of Math. Anal. Appl., v. 136, n. 1, pp. 20-28, 1988.
• Michael Pilant and William Rundell, ``Fixed point methods for a nonlinear parabolic inverse problem,'' Comm. P.D.E., v. 13, n. 4, pp. 469-493, 1988. [MR 89a:35225]
• Michael Pilant and William Rundell, ``Recovery of an Unknown Specific Heat by Means of Overposed Data,'' in Num. Methods in P. D. E., v. 6, pp. 1-16, 1990. [MR 91d:65205]
• Michael Pilant and William Rundell, ``Determining a coefficient in a first order hyperbolic equation,'' SIAM Journal Applied Math. v. 51, n. 2, pp. 494-506, 1991. [MR 91m:35242]
• Michael Pilant and William Rundell, ``A method for identifying nonlinear terms in parabolic initial boundary value problems,'' Advances in Water Resources, v. 14., n. 2, pp. 83-88, 1991. Computational Mechanics Publications. [MR 92b:35170]
• Michael Pilant and William Rundell, ``Age-structured population dynamics,'' in Inverse Methods in Action, pp. 122-129, P. Sabatier, editor, Springer Verlag, 1990.
• Bruce Lowe, Michael Pilant and William Rundell, ``The recovery of potentials from finite spectral data,'' SIAM J. of Math. Anal., v. 23, n. 2, pp. 482-504, 1992.

Current Funding

• Co-PI, ``Multidimensional Reconstruction Methods for Inverse Problems,'' DMS-920-2352, 6-1-92 thru 5-31-95. Funded by National Science Foundation.
• Co-PI, ``Partnership in Computational Sciences,'' Department of Energy, DE-FG05-92ER25143, Jan. 1992- Dec. 1996.
• Co-PI, ``Wavelet Galerkin Methods in Computational Mechanics,'' NASA-Langley, Sep. 1993 - Aug. 1995.
• Co-PI, ``Reinforcing Core-Concept Ideas in the Calculus Sequence,'' TAMU Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives RFP, Sept 1993.
• Co-PI, ``Execution Driven Simulation of NUMA Multiprocessor Architectures,'' IBM Advanced Workstation Division, Austin, TX.

Honors Program

• Loyal G. ''Chip'' Bassett, II, `` Design and Implementation of Distributed Graphics Protocols with Compression.''
• Johnny Chen, `` Evaluation of Message Passing Protocols for use in Distributed Graphics.''