Curriculum Vitae
David G Schaeffer
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132B Physics Bldg
Durham, NC 27708+1 919 660 2814 (office) 
(email)
- Education
B.S., Physics, University of Illinois, 1963
Ph.D., Mathematics, MIT, 1968
- Areas of Research
Applied Mathematics, especially Partial Differential Equations
- Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Sloan Fellow, 1975-77
Visiting member, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France, 1975-77
Visiting member, MRC, Madison, Wisconsin, 1977-78
Visiting member, Courant Institute, NYU, New York, New York, Fall 1979
Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship, Spring 1981
Associate Program Coordinator, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications,University of Minnesota, Spring 1989
Max Planck Research Award, 1991-1994
- Recent Grant Support
- Border-collision bifurcations in cardiac tissue, 2007/07-2010/06.
- Doctoral Theses Directed
- John W. Cain, Issues in the one-dimensional dynamics of a paced cardiac fiber, (December 15, 2003 - 2006)
- Aaron Ashih, Spatial and stochastic models for population growth with sexual and asexual reproduction, (1999 - 2001)
- Professional Affiliations
Instructor, Brandeis University, 1968-70
Assistant Professor, MIT, 1970-74
Associate Professor, MIT, 1975-78
Professor, Duke University, 1978-
James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics, Duke University, 1990-
- Publications (listed separately)
Last modified: 2008/07/03