CURRICULUM VITA
(January, 2002)
NAME: Lawrence S. Husch
PERSONAL:
- Born February 17, 1942, Hollis, New York
- Married with two daughters and seven grandchildren.
EDUCATION:
EMPLOYMENT:
- NSF Cooperative Graduate Fellow, Florida
State University, 1963-66
- Research Assistant and Part-time Instructor, Florida
State University, 1966-67
- Assistant Professor, University of Georgia,
1967-69
- Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic
Inst., 1969-70
- Associate Professor, Virginia Polytechnic
Inst. and State Univ., 1970-71
- Associate Professor, University of Tennessee,
1971-1975
- Professor, University of Tennessee, 1975-2002
- Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee,
2002-
- Visiting Research Scientist, University of
Zagreb, Zagreb, Yugoslavia 1976-1977
- Fulbright Distinguished Scientist, University
of Zagreb, Zagreb and Inter-University Centre,
Dubrovnik, Jugoslavia, 1986.
- Visiting Distinguished Professor, University
of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1990-1.
AWARDS
- Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in Teaching, April 1999
- NAWEB
'99 Award for Single Course, October 1999
- Prentice Hall's "Afternoon
of Innovation" Best Professor's Website, January 2001
PUBLICATIONS
SOFTWARE:
- "Freshman Calculus" two disk package for the Burroughs
B20 system; includes student manual. Was available through Unisys Sponsored
Research Products.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Embeddings of compacta, topological structure of fractals,
topological dynamics.
TALKS PRESENTED BEFORE PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
OTHER PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITY
COMMITTEE
WORK AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY
GRANTS AND OUTSIDE FUNDING
THESES AND MASTER'S PROJECTS:
- Roberta Geist, "The Space of Closed Subsets of
a Topological Space," M.S., March, 1973.
- Thomas Eck, "Topological
characterizations of the contraction, rotation and translation in E2 ," M.S.,
August, 1975.
- Virginia Adams, "Analysis
of the time delay in a host-parasite model," M.S., August, 1975.
- Thomas Milton, "A stochastic simulation model
of influenza," June, 1977, College Scholars Program. (Work was initiated under
my direction. Professor Clark was supervisor during September, 1976 - June,
1977 while I was in Zagreb.)
- W. Cain, "Control Theory on Manifolds", Ph.D.,
June, 1978.
- J. Stoughton, "Relative S-fibrations", Ph.D.,
June, 1978.
- J. Emert, "Defining and Distinguishing 'Twisted'
Lens Spaces", Ph.D., August, 1989.
- Matthew Blackmon, "The Application of Newton's
Method to Rational Functions: A Fractal Interpretation", Tennessee Scholars'
Program Senior Thesis, May 1990.
- Marek Galecki, "Enhanced Cohomology and Obstruction
Theory", Ph.D., August, 1993.
- Kenneth M. Elliott, III, Topology Master's Project,
August, 1996.
- Richard Rupp, "Tessellations: A topological,
geometric, and algebraic study", Master's Project, May 1997.
- Fei-Ye Yew, "Number Systems, Iterated Function
Systems and Fractals", M.S., August, 1999.
- Thomas Cooper, "Using the Maple Computer
Algebra System as a Tool for Studying Group Theory," M.S., May 2002.
COURSES TAUGHT