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Shigui Ruan, Associate Professor in Mathematics 

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 3J5

Office: Chase Building, Room 225
Phone: (902) 494-6635
Fax:   (902) 494-5130
E-mail:  ruan@mathstat.dal.ca

EDUCATION
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (1993-1994), McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
  • Junior Fields Fellow (1992-1993), Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada
  • PhD (1990-1992), Applied Mathematics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  • MSci (1985-1988), Mathematics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
  • BSci (1979-1983), Mathematics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

    • TEACHING (On leave at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA in 2002-2004)

    RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and Mathematical Biology

    • PUBLICATIONS
  • Papers in refereed journals and proceedings
  • Papers submitted

    • BOOKS/PROCEEDINGS EDITED
  • Differential Equations with Applications to Biology, Fields Institute Communications, Vol. 21, 1999
  • Advanced Topics in Biomathematics, World Scientific, 1998
  • Differential Equations and Control Theory, Marcel Dekker, 1995

    • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
  • Member of the Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) Project, the federal Network of Centres of Excellence
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Biomathematics

    • HONOURS AND AWARDS
  • Killam Prize at Dalhousie University in 1998
  • Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award in 1997
  • Fields Institute Junior Fellowship in 1992

    • HONOURS STUDENTS SUPERVISED
  • Rolla Al-Agez (2000), Eman Al-Tawil (1999), Rami Filfil (1999), Dalya Abdulla (1998), Lynne Genik (1995)

    • GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED
  • Rebecca Culshaw (PhD, 2002)
  • Rami Filfil (MSc, 2002), Annik Martin (MSc, 1999), Rebecca Culshaw (MSc, 1997)

    • RESEARCH FUNDING AGENTS
  • NSERC (Canada); Network of Centres of Excellence

    • MATHEMATICAL INTERESTS AND SOCIETIES
  • American Mathematical Society
  • Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society
  • Canadian Mathematical Society
  • Center for Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Studies, Atlanta, USA
  • Centre de recherches mathematiques, Montreal, Canada
  • Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Canada
  • Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, USA
  • The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, UK
  • Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, USA.
  • University of Oxford Mathematical Institute, Oxford, UK
  • MathSciNet Research at DAL (local users only)
  • Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Vancouver, Canada
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Society for Mathematical Biology
  • UK Nonlinear News
  • Mathematics Journal, printed journals with internet sites

    • CONFERENCES (CO-)ORGANIZED
  • Marrakech 2002 School on Delay Differential Equations, Theory and Applications, Marrakech, Morocco, September 9-21, 2002.
  • The Third International Conference on Mathematical Biology, Guilin, China, August 15-18, 2002.
  • The International Workshop on Dynamical Systems and their Applications in Biology, Cape Breton, Canada, August 2-6, 2001.
  • The 2000 APICS Math/Stat/CS Annual Meeting, Dalhousie University, October 20-22, 2000.
  • The International Conference on Differential Equations with Applications to Biology, Halifax, Canada, July 25-29, 1997.
  • The Second International Conference on Mathematical Biology, Hangzhou, China, May 26 - 29, 1997.
  • The International Conference on Differential Equations and Control Theory, Wuhan, China, May 10-14, 1994.

    • GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN APPLIED AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS
  • The Applied and Computational Mathematics Progarm at Dalhousie University

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