Linda J. S. Allen
{{short description|American mathematician and mathematical biologist}}{{Infobox person
| name = Linda J. S. Allen
| birth_name = Linda Joy Svoboda Allen
| education = {{Plainlist|
- College of St. Scholastica, bachelor's
- University of Tennessee, master's and doctorate}}
| occupation = Mathematician and mathematical biologist
| employer = Texas Tech University
}}
Linda Joy Svoboda Allen is an American mathematician and mathematical biologist, the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University.{{r|ttu-skl}}
Education and career
Allen earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1975 from the College of St. Scholastica, and a master's degree in 1978 and doctorate in 1978 from the University of Tennessee.{{r|cv}} Her dissertation, Applications of Differential Inequalities to Persistence and Extinction Problems for Reaction-Diffusion Systems, was supervised by Thomas G. Hallam.{{r|cv|mgp}}
After working as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, she joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 1982, and then moved to Texas Tech in 1985.{{r|cv}}
Recognition
In 2015 the Association for Women in Mathematics and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) honored her as their AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer "for outstanding contributions in ordinary differential equations, difference equations and stochastic models, with significant applications in the areas of infectious diseases and ecology".{{r|ttu-skl}} In 2016 she became a SIAM Fellow.{{r|ttu-sf|siam16}}
Books
Allen is the author of three books:
- An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology (Pearson, 2003; 2nd ed., 2011){{r|miao}}
- An Introduction to Mathematical Biology (Prentice Hall, 2007){{r|akman}}
- Stochastic Population and Epidemic Models: Persistence and Extinction (Springer, 2015).
References
{{reflist|refs=
| last = Akman | first = Füsun
| date = January 2014
| doi = 10.1080/23737867.2014.11414475
| issue = 2
| journal = Letters in Biomathematics
| pages = 127–137
| title = How to utilize L. J. S. Allen's An Introduction to Mathematical Biology in a biomathematics course
| volume = 1| doi-access = free
}}
[http://www.math.ttu.edu/~lallen/AbbrevVita.html Abbreviated Vita], retrieved 2017-07-01
Reviews of An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology:
- {{citation|title=none|first1=Seema|last1=Nanda|first2=Louis|last2=Gross|journal=SIAM Review|volume=46|issue=3|date=September 2004|pages=583–584|jstor=20453553}}
- {{citation|title=none|year=2011|journal=Mathematical Reviews|first=Hongyu|last=Miao|mr=2560499}}
- {{citation|title=Review|date=January 2012|journal=MAA Reviews|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/an-introduction-to-stochastic-processes-with-applications-to-biology|first=Kathy|last=Temple}}
[http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2016 SIAM Fellows: Class of 2016], Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, retrieved 2017-07-01
[http://today.ttu.edu/posts/2015/07/professor-awarded-distinguished-lecture-for-contributions-to-mathematics Professor awarded distinguished lecture for contributions to mathematics], Texas Tech University, retrieved 2017-07-01
[http://today.ttu.edu/posts/2016/04/math-professor-siam-fellow Mathematics professor named a 2016 SIAM Fellow], Texas Tech University, retrieved 2017-07-01
}}
External links
- [http://www.math.ttu.edu/~lallen/ Home page]
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Category:21st-century American women mathematicians