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Applied Sciences and Mathematics
College of Technology & Innovation
Arizona State University
7001 E. Williams Field Road,
Mesa, AZ 85212, USA
Office: Wanner Hall 340C
Email: yun.kang@asu.edu
Phone number: 480-727-5004
Area of research: Dynamical system
theory and Mathematical biology
Curriculum Vitae
My greatest achievement in 2008
Thesis Committee
Co-Chair of PhD Thesis Committee: Sourav Kumar Sasmal (Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, co-supervise with Professor Joydev Chattopadhyay)
Chair of Master Thesis Committee: Lauren Wedekin (M.S in Applied Biological Sciences)
Honor Thesis Committee: Andrew Sannier (majoring in Computational Math Sciences)
Honor Thesis Committee: Kenneth Qian (majoring in Statistics (B.S.), Finance, Economics)
Honor Thesis Committee: Jared Neufer (majoring in mathematics and political sciences)
Honor Thesis Committee: Jeremiah White (Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics, CTI)
Research Projects of Undergraduates (ABS 489)
Zheng Wenyu: Her research project is to model business cycles by using determininstic and stochastic models.
Michael Makiyama: His research project involves parameter estimations of biological systems based on available data and numerical simulations on spreading of allien species.
Cody Ben: His research project is to use graph theory to do a social network analysis of players in the national basketball association.
Katic Michael: His research project is to model plant-herbivore interactions in seasonal environment.
Ren Hanning: His research project is to use an one dimensional discrete system to model the population dynamics of leave cutter ants.
AWARDS:
Collaboration Grants for Mathematician, $35,000, 2011-2016 from Simons Foundation: This award is based on the quality of the applicant's previous research and the likely impact that a grant for collaboration and travel would have on future research, both for the applicant and the applicant's students and/or postdocs. Please click here for more information on this award.
2011,Travel grants from SIAM/NSF for ICIAM2011, $1500.
Research grant from CTI at ASU (SSE), 02/2011-06/2011.
Research grant from Applied Sciences and Mathematics at ASU, 2009,2010, 2011.
Project NExt Fellow: I have been awarded 2010-2011 Project NExt Fellow. Please click here for more information on Project NExt Program.
Professional Services
Give a lecture on ``Interplay between Allee effects and competition'' at a workshop on ``Heterogeneity and Ecologies'' organized by MCMSC , June 29, 2011, 10:00 am -11:30 am, ASU. Please click here for lecture notes.
Gave lectures on ``population dynamics of one and two dimensional discrete time models'' at Mathematical and theoretical biology institute, June 15 - 26, 2011, 9:00 am -12:30 am, ASU. Please click here for lecture one and click here for lecture two.
Organize a minisymposium on Modeling of Ecological Systems at the 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2011), July 18 - 22, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada (with Yang Kuang and Hao Wang).
Organize a minisymposium on Recent applications of dynamical systems in ecology at SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (SIAM DS11), May 22 - 26, Snowbird, Utah, USA (with Andrea Bruder and Racheal Miller Neilan).
Organize a SIAM Minisymposium on Applications of Difference and Differential Equations in Ecology and Epidemiology. Please click here for more information on Joint Mathematical Meetings, January 6-9, 2011 at New Orleans (with Zhilan Feng).
I have served as a reviewer for many journals including Ecology Modeling, Theoretical Population Biology, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Journal of Difference Equations and Applications and Journal of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.
I am on Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Mentor Network. Please click here for more information on AWM.
I am mentoring an undergraduate student (math education program, University of California, Irvine) through AWM network.
Judge for AWM Essay Contest: Biographies of Contemporary Women in Mathematics. Please click here for more information on this contest.
Services in Department/College and others
I am serving on the three committees in the department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics: Hiring math lecturer committee, the graduate committee and the committee of professional sciences masters.
Committee member of Academic Standards of College of Technology \& Innovation.
Participate in math outreach activities for high school kids. The recent workshop for high school kids is Circle on the road-The Tempe Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival.