Personal

Born June 1, 1949 in Glasgow, Scotland

Married to Linda Rundell. We have three children; Alison, Jennifer, Gillian.

Address

Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-3368.
Tel: (979) 845-1450
william.rundell@math.tamu.edu

Education

Allen Glen's High School of Science, Glasgow, 1961 - 1967.
B.Sc. (Hons) Mathematics & Natural Philosophy, Glasgow University 1971.
Ph.D, Glasgow University 1974.

Current Position

Director, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation
Professor of Mathematics,
Professor of Computer Science,

Membership

AMS, SIAM, IOP

Texas A&M University, College of Science Student Council Teaching Excellence Award (1979).

Texas A&M University, The Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award (1982).

Texas A&M University Honors Program Scholar Award (1985). This award was for teaching and service in the Honors Program, and consisted of a grant of $5000.

Conference Organisation

Chairman, AMS, SIAM, IMS Joint Conference Series, Inverse Problems in Partial Differential Equations,

Arcata, California, July 1989.

Mount Holyoke, Mass. July 1998.

Co-organiser SIAM/GAMM international conference series, Inverse Problems and their application

St Wolfgang, Austria 1994,

Yosemite, California 1995,

Oberwolfach, 1996.

International conference on Inverse Problems: Computational Algorithms, March 1991, in College Station, Texas. Conference was funded by AFOSR, NSF, ONR.

Reviewing

Several NSF panels including: GiG, VIGRE, CoV.

Several NSF site visits including: VIGRE, Institutes.

Editorial Boards: Mathematical Population Studies, (1992--1996); Inverse Problems, (1993 - ).

University

Directed the Texas A&M University Honors Program (1983--1985).

Chair of the Texas A&M University Senate Academic Affairs Committee (1985--1986).

Member and Chair of numerous search committees.

Head, Department of Mathematics, 1992 - 2002.

Support for research on inverse problems in partial differential equations:

National Science Foundation:

DMS-8901763, $90,000; (M. Pilant Co-PI)

DMS-9202352, $81,000;

DMS-9501030, $59,000.

DMS-9706985, $75,000. (R. Ewing, J. Wang, Co-PIs)

DMS-9906985, $72,900.

Office of Naval Research:

N00014-89-J1008, January 1989 to January 1992, $176,000.

Other funding

Investigator, Department of Energy, ``Partnerships in Computational Science'' 1992-1994.

National Science Foundation: "Mathematical Sciences Research Equipment," DMS--8804590, $45,000; DMS--9103519, $48,695: DMS--9707930, $65,000; All with equal university matching.

National Science Foundation: "Major Research Instrumentation", 2002. $405,000 with approximately $200,000 in university matching.

``Conference on Inverse Problems'' NSF $8,000, AFOSR $16,000, ONR $5,000, $9,000 University matching.

National Science Foundation: ``U.S.--Tunisia Co-operative Research'', PI, INT-0002195, July 2000, $30,000.

Lead PI, NSF VIGRE grant, 2000-2005, $2,252,000 ``Department-wide Infrastructure: Widening the Pipeline for Mathematical Sciences'',

Conference Invited Hour Talks

Lapland Conference on Inverse Problems, Saariselka, Finland, June 1992;

Twelvth Dundee Conference on Differential Equations, Dundee, Scotland, June 1992;

AMS, SIAM, IMS Joint Summer Conference series in Control in Partial Differential Equations, Mount Holyoke, Mass, July 1992.

IIASA workshop on Modelling of Environmental Dynamics, Sopron, Hungary, August 1993;

Eighteenth Annual Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, April 1994.

International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering, LeCroisic, France, June 1996.

Conference on Differential Equations, Layfette, Louisiana, October 1997.

International Conference on Inverse Problems, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, October 1998.

Inverse Problems and Shape Optimization, Carthage, April 1998.

Conference on Differential Equations, Hong Kong, May 1999

Inverse problems and Nonlinearity, Montpellier, June 2000.

Inverse Problems and Numerical Computing, Strobl, Austria, July 2000.

SMAI Annual Meeting, Correze, France, May 2001.

Applied and Computational Inverse Problems, Montecatini, June 2001.

Principal Speaker, "Conference on Differential Equations", Pullman, Washington, May 2002.

Inverse problems Workshop, Cortona, Italy, June 2002.

Spezialforschungsbereich-Conference on "Computational Methods for Inverse problems", Strobl, Austria, August 2002.

Workshop on "Inverse Obstacle Problems", Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon, Portugal, November 2002

``Analytic and Geometric Methods in Inverse Problems'', Helsinki, August 2003.

Lecture Series

Lecture series, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, May-June 1992;

Lecture series, University of Oulu, Finland, June 1994 (10 talks);

Charles Edison Lecture, University of Notre Dame, April 1995;

Lecture series, Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Tunis, April 2001 (4 talks);

Lecture series, University of Florence, October 2002 (5 talks);

Invited Hour Talks at Institutes

Field's Institute, Canada, February 1992.

Mathematisches Forschunginstitut, Oberwolfach: December 1993, February 1996, September 1998.

IMA: Minnesota, ``Conference on Inverse Problems in Geophysics,'' February, 1995.

MSRI, Nov 2001

IPAM, Dec 2003.

Talks at Special Sessions

AMS annual and regional meetings (10)

SIAM annual and special meetings (6)

Other meetings (3).

Colloquia

Brigham Young; Colorado School of Mines, Delaware, Iowa State, Houston, S.W. Louisiana, Maryland, Notre dame, Trinity, Toronto; Chinese University of Hong Kong, Universität Erlangen, Göttingen, Karlsruhe, Mainz, München, Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Lund.

• William Rundell and Hong-Ming Yin, A Parabolic Inverse Problem with an Unknown Boundary Condition, Journal of Differential Equations, 86, (1990), 234--242.
• William Rundell and Paul Sacks, Reconstruction techniques for classical inverse Sturm-Liouville problems, Math. Comp., 58, (1992), 161--183.
• Bruce Lowe and William Rundell, The reconstruction of two coefficients in a Sturm-Liouville operator, Inverse Problems, 9 (1993), 469--482.
• Frank Hettlich and William Rundell, Iterative Methods for the Reconstruction of an Inverse Potential Problem, Inverse Problems, 12, (1996), 251--266.
• Frank Hettlich and William Rundell, A Second Degree Method for Nonlinear Inverse Problems, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 37, No.2, (1999), 587--620.
• Rainer Kress and William Rundell, Inverse Obstacle Scattering Using Reduced Data, SIAM J. Appld. Math,, 59 (1999), 442--454.

The above is extracted from a complete list of over 65 refereed publications during a thirty period.