| Frederic Y.M. Wan | |
Positions: |
Professor, Mathematics School of Physical Sciences Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering The Henry Samueli School of Engineering 
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Degrees: |
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959, Mathematics S.M. and Ph.D. Mathematics, June, 1993 and September, 1965, MIT |
Academic
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Honors and Awards: **Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award, Canadian Applied Mathematics Society, 1991 **Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, 1999 - **Fellow: American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), 1981, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1995. Appointments: **University of British Columbia: Director, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (1974-83) **University of Washington: Chair, Department of Applied Mathematics (1983-88); Divsional Dean of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences (1988-92) **Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada: Member (1980-83) and Chairman (1982-83), Committee of Pure and Applied Mathematics **National Science Foundation: Program Officer, Appl. Math. Program, DMS (1986-87); Division Director, DMS (January, 1993 - December, 1994) **MIT: MIT Educational Council (1974-79) MIT Visiting Committee for Mathematics (1991-93) **University of California, Irvine: Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies (1995-2000) Editorial Board Membership: 1) Studies in Appl. Math. 84- ; 2) Canadian Appl. Math. Quarterly, 93- ; 3) International J. Solids & Strucutres 96- ; 4) World Sci. Publ. 95- . Professional Societies: Canadian Applied Mathematics Society (CAMS/SCMA): Council Member 1980-82, President 1983-85, Past President 1985-87. American Mathematical Society (AMS): Committee of Committees (1995-97), Science Policy Committee (1995-97). Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM): Educational Committee (1983-87), Representative on the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1991-93, 2001-), Science Policy Committee (1990-92,1995-) Mathematical Association of America (MAA) |
Research |
Applied Mathematics, Solid Mechanics, Resource Economics, Biomathematics |
Abstract: |
**Copyrights on Books: 1) Mathematical Models and Their Analysis, Harper and Row, February, 1989. 2) Introduction to the Calculus of Variations and Its Applications, Chapman & Hall, January, 1995. **Recent Presentations: 2004-05 - SIAM Conferences on the Life Sciences (7/11-16/04, Portland, OR), AIM's 5th Int'l Conf. on Dyn. Syst. & Diff. Eq'ns (6/16-19/04, Pomona, CA); 2003-04 - Int'l Conf. Math. & Its Applications (5/28-31/04, City Univ. of Hong Kong), Math. Seminar (5/21/04, Peking Univ.), Mechanics Seminar (5/14/04, Peking Univ.), Comp. Math. Seminar (4/23/04, Xian Jaotong Univ.), Mechanics Seminar (4/9/04, Tsinghua Univ.), 5th ICIAM (7/7-11/03, Sydney, Australia); 2002-03 - W.M. Keck Seminars in Comp. Biology (5/21/03, UCLA), 3rd So.Calif. Appl. Math. Symp. (5/3/2003, UC Irvine), Annual SIAM Meeting (7/8-12/2002, Philadelphia, PA). |
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Feedback regulation in multistage cell lineages, Math. Biosci. & Eng., 6(1), 2009, Pgs. 59-82. (W.-C. Lo, C.-S. Chou, K. Gokoffski, A.D. Lander, A.L. Calof and Q. Nie) |
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Compact integration factor methods in high spatial dimension, J. Comp. Phys., 227, 2008, Pgs. 5238-5525. (with Q. Nie, F.Y.M. Wan, Y.-T. Zhang and X.-F. Liu) |
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Selective pressures for and against genetic instability in cancer: a time-dependent problem, J. Royal Society, Interface, 2007, Online, June 19, 2007, doi: 10.1098/rsif.2007.1054. (with N. Komarova and A. Sadovsky) |
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Elastodynamics of embryonic epidermal wound closure, Studies in Appl. Math., 118, 2007, Pgs. 365-395. (with A. Sadovsky) |
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Wingless directly represses DPP morphogen expression via an Armadillo/TCF/Brinker complex, PLoS ONE, 2007, 1 (e142, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000142), Pgs. 1-10 [plus supplement, 1-14, and figures, S1-S6]. (with H. Theisen, A. Syed, B.T. Nguyen, T. Lukacsovich, J. Purcell, G.P. Srivastava, D. Iron, K. Gaudenz, Q. Nie,M.L. Waterman, and J. L. Marsh) |
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Time to first spike in Hodgkin-Huxley stochastic systems, Physica A - Stat. Mech. Applic., 351 (2-4), 2005, Pgs. 427-438. (with H.C. Tuckwell) |
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Effects of Sog on Dpp-receptor binding, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 65, 2005, Pgs. 1748 - 1771. (with Y. Lou and Q. Nie) |
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Formation of the BMP activity gradient in the Drosophila embryo, Dev. Cell, 8, 2005, Pgs. 519-5?? [plus supplement]. (with C.M. Mizutani, Q. Nie, Y.-T. Zhang, P. Vilmos, E. Bier, J.L. Marsh and A.D. Lander) |
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Spatially distributed morphogen synthesis and morphogen gradient formation, Math. Biosci. & Eng. (MBE), 2 , 2005, Pgs. 239 – 262. (with A.D. Lander and Q. Nie) |
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Stress boundary conditions for plate bending, Int. J. Solids Structure Vol. 40, 2003, 4107-4123. (A Special Issue in honour of Arthur. W. Leissa on his 70th Birthday) |
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Determination of Firing Times for the Stochastic Fitzhugh-Nagumo Neuronal Model, Neural Comp., vol. 15, 2003, 143-159. (with H.C. Tuckwell and Rodriguez) |
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Do morphogen gradients arise by diffusion? Dev. Cell, vol. 2, 2002, 785-796. (with A.D. Lander and Q. Nie) |
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Nature of equilibria and effects of drug treatments in some viral population dynamical models, IMA J. Math. Appl. Med. & Biol. vol. 17, 2000, Pgs. 311-327. (with H.C. Tuckwell) |
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Locational equilibrium models for publicly owned residential land, Natural Resource Modeling vol. 13(2), 2000, 219-246. |
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A thick hollow sphere compressed by equal and opposite concentrated axial loads, an asymptotic solution, SIAM J. Appl. Math., vol. 59, 1999, 1080-1097. (with R. D. Gregory & T. I. Milac) |
Professional
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American Academy of Mechanics |
| American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) | |
| Canadian Applied Mathematical Society (CAMS/SCMA) | |
| Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | |
| American Mathematical Society (AMS) | |
| Mathematical Association of America (MAA) | |
Address |
University of California 510B Rowland Hall Mail Code: 3875 Irvine, CA 92697 |
Phone: | (949) 824-5529 |
Fax: | (949) 824-7993 |
Email: | fwan@uci.edu |
| www.math.uci.edu/~fwan |
| Updated | 05/30/2009 |
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