Scholars

Professor

Positions:

Professor, Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences

overview

I have research interests in applied mathematics, computational mathematics, inverse problems in partial differential equations, computer graphics, and computer-assisted instruction.

education and training

Ph.D. in Mathematics, New York University - (New York, New York, United States) 1982
M.S. in Mathematics, New York University - (New York, New York, United States) 1978
B.S. in Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh - (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) 1976

selected publications

Academic Articles10

Ewing, R. E., Pilant, M. S., Wade, J. G., & Watson, A. T. (1994). Estimating parameters in scientific computation - A survey of experience from oil and groundwater modeling. IEEE Computational Science and Engineering. 1(3), 19-19.
PILANT, M., & RUNDELL, W. (1991). A METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING NONLINEAR TERMS IN PARABOLIC INITIAL-BOUNDARY VALUE-PROBLEMS. Advances in Water Resources. 14(2), 83-88.
PILANT, M., & RUNDELL, W. (1991). DETERMINING A COEFFICIENT IN A 1ST-ORDER HYPERBOLIC EQUATION. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 51(2), 494-506.
Pilant, M., & Rundell, W. (1991). Determining the initial age distribution for an age structured population.. Mathematical Population Studies: an international journal of mathematical demography. 3(1), 3-20.
Pilant, M., & Rundell, W. (1990). Recovery of an unknown specific heat by means of overposed data. Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations. 6(1), 1-16.

Books1

Whitfield, J., Bollinger, K. L., Chen, L., Epstein, J., & Pilant, M. (2004). Applied Calculus on the Web. Brooks Cole/Thompson Learning.

Chapters1

Pilant, M., & Rundell, W. (1990). Age Structured Population Dynamics. Sabatier, P. C. (Eds.), Inverse Methods in Action. 122-129. Springer Nature.

Conference Papers4

Ko, J., Kurdila, A. J., & Pilant, M. S. (1995). Triangular wavelet based finite elements via multivalued scaling equations. Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference. 2, 986-995.
Ko, J., Kurdila, A. J., & Pilant, M. (1994). Class of wavelet-based finite element methods for computational mechanics. Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference. 2, 665-675.
Ko, J., Kurdila, A. J., & Pilant, M. (1994). Wavelet Galerkin multigrid methods. Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference. 1, 224-234.
Pilant, M., & Rundell, W. (1989). Collocation scheme for the identification of coefficients in nonlinear parabolic equations. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. 2, 1462-1463.