Christopher L. Cox Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1984.

Research Interests

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Numerical Linear Algebra

Parallel Algorithms

Course Materials

MthSc 108 Section 1: Calculus of One Variable II (Fall 2000).

Technology for the Classroom: Programmable Calculators, Maple and Java.

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SIAM-SEAS

Fall 1999 Newsletter

Recent Publications

"Perturbation Analysis for Eigenstructure Assignment of Linear Multi-input Systems," (with M. E. Cawood), Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 11, pp. 25-42, 2000.

"Mathematical Modeling of Unsaturated Porous Media Flow and Transport," (with T. H. Payne), pp. 185-201, in Applied Mathematical Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Approach, D. R. Shier and K. T. Wallenius (Eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1999.

"Finite Element Analysis of the Effects of Geometry and Microstructure on Electromigration in Confined Metal Lines," (with Y. Liu and R. J. Diefendorf), Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 83, No. 7, (1998).

"One-Dimensional Infiltration with Moving Finite Elements and Improved Soil-Water Diffusivity," (with W.F. Jones, V.L. Quisenberry and F. Yo), Water Resources Research, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 1431-1438, May, 1994.

"Backward Error Analysis for a Pole Assignment Algorithm II, the Complex Case," (with W.F. Moss), SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 1159-1171, (1992).

"A Tridiagonal System Solver for Distributed Memory Parallel Processors with Vector Nodes," (with J.A. Knisely), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 13, pp. 325-331, (1991).