Curriculum Vitae
Anna Maria Spagnuolo
 
Department of Mathematics & Statistics                                                                                    Phone:  (248) 370-4032
Oakland University                                                                                                                      Fax:  (248) 370-4184
Rochester, MI 48309                                                                                                                   E-mail: spagnuol@oakland.edu


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EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at Purdue University                                                                        Aug 1998
West Lafayette, IN

    Thesis Title:  Approximation of contaminant transport
                         through porous media by mixed finite elements
                         and a modified method of characteristics with
                         adjusted advection.

    Thesis Advisor: Professor Jim Douglas, Jr.

M.A. in Mathematics at Oakland University                                                                                    June 1993
Rochester, MI
 
B.S. in Mathematics at Oakland University                                                                                                     June 1991
Rochester, MI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor at Oakland University                                                                                                             Aug 2004  -- present  
Rochester, MI

Assistant Professor at Oakland University                                                                                                             Aug 2000  -- Aug 2004
Rochester, MI

Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University                                                                                          Aug 1998 -- Aug 2000
College Station, TX

    Worked in the Department of Mathematics and
    the Institute for Scientific Computation.

Purdue Research Foundation Fellow                                                                                                                      Jan 1996 -- Aug 1998
West Lafayette, IN

Summer Intern at Exxon Production Research Co                                                                                                May 1997 -- Aug 1997
Houston, TX

Research on multiphase flows and transport in porous media.

Teaching Assistant at Purdue University                                                                                                               Aug 1993 -- Dec 1996
West Lafayette, IN

Instructor for several undergraduate courses.

Teaching Associate at Oakland University                                                                                                            Sept 1991 -- Apr 1993
Rochester, MI

PUBLICATIONS - REFEREED
SUBMITTED WORK AND WORK IN PROGRESS

Multidimensional, locally-conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian
finite element methods for semilinear parabolic equations, Jim Douglas, Jr, and Anna Maria Spagnuolo, submitted.

The convergence of a multidimensional, locally conservative,
  Eulerian-Lagrangian finite element method for a semilinear parabolic
  equation, Jim Douglas, Jr., Anna Maria Spagnuolo, and Son-Young Yi, in preparation.

A model for chagas disease with controlled spraying
    Anna Maria Spagnuolo, Gabrielle Stryker and Meir Shillor, in preparation.  This includes
    an Oakland University web site for running the code under various
    parameter changes, in progress.

A model for Vibrio cholerae colonization of the human
    intestine, Anna Maria Spagnuolo, Victor J. DiRita, Denise Kirschner.

A mathematical model and simulation results for inflation
      and deflation of a plate on a fixed boundary, Meir Shillor
    Bob Smith, and Anna Maria Spagnuolo, in preparation.

A mathematical model using homogenization of the epithelium
    for transport in the small intestine, Daniel Coffield and Anna Maria Spagnuolo.


PROCEEDINGS

A numerical method for the simulation of nuclear contaminant transport in porous
media.  Fourth Forum on Numerics and Modeling for Partial Differential Equations.  SIAM Great
Lakes Section, NUMPDES 2001, Oakland University, Rochester, MI.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Modeling of physical phenomena, particularly fluid flow
in porous media and disease processes, and numerical methods for
approximating their solution


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Represented the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at
    Oakland University by presenting techniques and the solution to solving the Rubik's
    cube at the 2005 Science, Math, and Technology Expo at Ford Field
    in Detroit, MI in the fall of 2005.

Represented the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at
Oakland University by presenting techniques and the solution to solving the Rubik's
cube at the 2004 Science, Math, and Technology Expo at Chrisler
Arena in Ann Arbor, MI in the fall of 2004.

Advisor to an undergraduate student at Oakland University on an
industrial problem involving springs and suspension systems.

Faculty advisor to a team of four undergraduate students at Texas A&
M University for work on a NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight
Opportunities/March 2000 Flight Competition.

Advisor to two advanced undergraduate students at Texas A\& M
University on projects that involve mathematics and computer science.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Excellence in Teaching Award (1996-1997) at Purdue University

Purdue Research Foundation Grant (January 1996 - August 1998)

LVAD, Technology, Inc. Grant for Collaborative Project on Device
    Improvement.

Oakland University Research Fellowship, May - August 2001, $7,500

Oakland University Excellence in Scholarship Award, April 2006

Oakland University Research Committee Award (Indirect Cost Recovery), ``Real-Time Simulations Using Numerical Analysis and Flowpaths'' July 2006 - July 2007, $16,955

Accelogic Academic Nonprofit Grant $1500 for attending the short course, ``Algorithm Design in the Era of Reconfigurable
    Computing'' which was held at the Holiday Inn Dayton/Fairborn, Ohio, July 12 - 14, 2006

National Science Foundation Grant, SGER (10/1/2006 - 9/30/2007) co-PI with Darrin M Hanna for ``Numerical Speedup Using
    Flowpaths'' $63,000.

J. T. Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Program for ``Speedup of Numerical Algorithms Using Flowpaths'' ~ $3000 for a visit to Clint Dawson at UT Austin on May 18 - June 10, 2007.

National Science Foundation Grant for the Conference: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Multiscale Nonlinear Systems, PI:
    Malgorzata Peszynska for organizing the conference on June 25-29, 2007 at Oregon State University

National Science Foundation Grant for "Collaborative Research:   Hurricane Storm Surge Modeling on Petascale Computers," PI at
    Oakland University, with main collaborative PI: Clint Dawson at University of Texas at Austin and PI: Joannes Westerink at
    University of Notre Dame, ~ $330,679 (OU portion)


TALKS

Presented "A Mathematical Model for Vibrio Cholerae Colonization of the Human
Intestine" at the Center for the Study of Complex System at the University of Michigan,
 Ann Arbor, MI on November 15, 2007. [invited]

Presented "A Model for Colonization of Vibrio Cholerae
the Human Intestine'' at the Conference "Modeling, Analysis, and
Simulation of Multiscale Nonlinear Systems,'' at Oregon State
University on June 25 - June 29, 2007. [invited]

Presented "My Experiences in Computing Solutions to
Mathematical Models in Science and Industry'' at the Women in
Computing Day at Oakland University on June 13, 2007. [invited]

Presented "A Model for Vibrio Cholerae Colonization of
the Human Intestine'' as an invited Plenary Speaker at the
Spring 2007 MAA Conference in Dearborn, Michigan on May 5, 2007.[invited]}

Presented (with Dr.~Darrin M Hanna) "Speedup Using Flowpaths
for a Finite Difference Solution of a 3D Parabolic PDE'' at the NGS
(Next Generation Software) Workshop at the IPDPS Conference
in Long Beach, California on March 27, 2007.[invited]

Presented "Post-Graduate Experiences'' on March 25, 2007 at the
Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana. [invited]

Presented "How to Choose a Research Area, Advisor, Problem,
Job'' on March 26, 2007 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

Presented (with Dr.~Gabrielle Stryker) "A Model for Chagas Disease with Controlled
Spraying'' to the Mathematics Department at Andrews University on
December 8, 2006 [invited]

Presented "Reiterated Homogenization and the Double-Porosity
Model'' to the Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar in the
Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University on October 20, 2006 [invited].

Presented  "A Model for {\it Vibrio Cholerae} Colonization of the Human Intestine''
to the Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University on October 20, 2006 [invited].

Presented "Numerical Simulations in Science'' at Wright
Patterson Air Force Base on July 21, 2006. [invited]

Delivered two talks at Purdue University in March 2006 upon
invitation to potential and current mathematics graduate students
[invited].

Presented "Mathematical models of physical phenomena in science,
engineering, and medicine,'' in the Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science Colloquium at Albion College on October 20, 2005.[invited]

Presented "Quantifying Low Concentrations of Antigen in Real-Time using
Mathematical Modeling and AI,'' with Darrin M. Hanna at the Karmanos
Cancer Institute, November 9, 2004, Detroit, MI.[invited]

Presented "Modeling HIV-1 Dynamics and the Effects of
Decreasing Activated T-cell Count by Filtration'' at the 26th Annual
International Conference, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society [EMBS], on September 4, 2004 in San Francisco, CA

Presented "Spatial Dynamics of Cholera Infection in a Human
Host'' at the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting on July
26, 2004 at the University of Michigan [invited].

Delivered two talks at Purdue University in March 2004 upon
invitation to potential and current mathematics graduate students
[invited].

Presented "A Preliminary Study of the Colonization of Vibrio Cholerae
 in a Human Host'' on March 8, 2004 to the Sigma Xi Research Society at Oakland University [invited].

Presented "A Preliminary Study of   Vibrio Cholerae
colonization in a human host'' to the Department of Mathematics and
Statistics at Oakland University in November 2004 [invited].

Delivered two talks at Purdue University on March 28-30, 2003
  upon invitation to potential and current mathematics graduate
  students [invited].

Presented "Tracking Nuclear Waste in Porous Media,'' at the
  School of Engineering at Oakland University in April 2003
  [invited].

Presented "A Locally Conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian Method
for Approximating Nuclear Decay Chains in Porous Media '' at the
Numerical Analysis Seminar at Purdue University, in November
2002 [invited].

Presented "Cholera: A Preliminary Study'', in Rio de Janairo,
  Brazil September 2002 [invited].

Presented "A locally-conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian Method
for approximating nuclear decay chains in porous media'' at Wayne
State University (joint Applied Mathematics and Analysis Seminar) in
April 2002 [invited].

Gave three talks at Exploration 2002 at Seaholm High School in Birmingham, MI [invited].

Presented "A dual-porosity model for high-level nuclear
contaminant transport in naturally-fractured porous media and an
approximation to the flow by a locally-conservative
Eulerian-Lagrangian method'' in the Oakland University Department of
Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium in November 2001.

Presented "Simulating the Transport of Nuclear Decay Chains in Naturally-
fractured Porous Media" at Andrews University, Mathematics
Colloquium Series on September 21, 2001 [invited]

Presented "The Simulation of Nuclear Contaminants in Fractured Porous Media''
at the SIAM-AMS-IMS Meeting at Mount Holyoke College in MA on June 20, 2001  [invited].

Presented `` A numerical method for the simulation of the transport of
nuclear contamination in fractured porous media '' at the Sixth SIAM Conference on Mathematical and
Computational Issues in the Geosciences in a minisymposium on June 11, 2001 [invited].

Presented ``A model for the transport of nuclear contaminants in fractured porous media''
at the Sixth SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational
Issues in the Geosciences in a minisymposium on June 12, 2001 [invited].

Presented ``The simulation of nuclear contaminant transport in porous media'' to the University of
Michigan Medical School Mathematics/Biology on April 23, 2001 [invited].

Presented ``The simulation of nuclear contaminant transport in porous media ''
at Wayne State University on April 3, 2001 [invited].

Presented ``Approximation of Nuclear Contaminant Transport in Porous Media''
at SIAM Numerical PDEs Conference at Oakland University on March 31, 2001 [contributed paper].

Presented ``A Numerical Method for the Simulation of Nuclear Contaminant Transport in
Porous Media'' at Physics Department Colloquium at Oakland University on March 29, 2001 [invited].

Presented ``Approximation of Nuclear Contaminant Transport in
Porous Media" to the College of William and Mary in February 2000
[invited].

Presented ``Approximation of Nuclear Contaminant Transport in
Porous Media" to Pennsylvania State, Erie in March 2000 [invited].

Presented ``Approximation of Nuclear Contaminant Transport in Porous Media" to Wright State
University in February, 2000 [invited].

Fifth SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the
Geosciences at the Adam's Mark San Antonio - Riverwalk Hotel
in San Antonio Texas, March 1999.

Presented ``Approximation of Contaminant Transport in Porous Media by a
Modified Method of Characteristics with Adjusted Advection" [contributed paper].

Delivered the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Applied Mathematics
Seminar, April 1998 [invited].

Presented Talk on Fractures in Porous Media and Oil
Recovery at Exxon Production Research Company in Houston, Texas, March
1998 [invited].

AMS Meeting at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, May 1997.
Presented ``A multiple-porosity model for a single-phase flow through
naturally-fractured porous media" [invited].

SPECIAL SESSIONS


Co-organizer for the special session ``Biological Applications of Dynamical Systems " for the
Central Section Meeting of the AMS in Ann Arbor, MI from March 1-3, 2002.

Co-organizer for the special session ``PDE Models in Biology and Epidemiology''
joint AMS and MAA national meeting in New Orleans, January 2001.

Judge for undergraduate mathematics poster competition at the
joint AMS and MAA national meeting in New Orleans, January 2001.

SPECIAL WORKSHOPS and CONFERENCES

Attended ``Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Multiscale
Nonlinear Systems,'' at Oregon State University on June 25 - June 29,
2007.  I was one of the co-organizer of the conference.  Malgorzata
Peszynska (PI) the conference was funded by the NSF and the DOE.

Attended the short course, ``Algorithm Design in the Era of
Reconfigurable Computing'' at the Holiday Inn Dayton/Fairborn in Ohio
from July 12--14, 2006.  I received a Accelogic ANG (Academic Nonprofit Grant) award which
waived the $1,500 registration fee.

Invited participant of the workshop on ``Numerical Methods in the Geosciences," at the
IMA on March 13 - 15, 2002 organized by Mac Hyman and Mary Wheeler (Doug Arnold, director).

Attended the conference on ``Current and Future Trends in Numerical PDE's:  Where is
the field, and where is it going?'' in Honor of Jim Douglas, Jr.'s 75th Birthday,
February 8 -- 10, 2002, University of Texas at Austin.

Invited participant in the workshop ``Confinement and
Remediation of Environmental Hazards" in ``Reactive Flow and Transport
Phenomena" at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the
University of Minnesota in January 2000

Attended the local meeting of the AMS in October 1999 at the University of Texas in Austin.

OTHER CONFERENCES

Attended ``The Michigan MAA Spring Meeting 2007'' in Dearborn, Michigan on May 4--5, 2007.

Attended the SIAM Great Lakes Section 2007 Spring Meeting,
``Numerical PDEs:  Modeling, Algorithms and Applications'' at Meadowbrook Hall at
Oakland University.

Attended ``A Scientific Celebration of the 60th Birthday of
Professor Richard E. Ewing'' on November 17-18, 2006 at Texas A\& M
University.

Attended the conference ``Mathematical and Numerical Treatment
of Fluid Flow and Transport in Porous Media'' at the University of Nevada in
Las Vegas, Nevada on May 22--26, 2006 (received NSF support).

Attended ``50 Years of ADI'' at Rice University in Houston, TX
on November 3--5, 2005 in honor of Douglas, Peaceman, and Rachford.

Attended and spoke at the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual
Meeting on July 26, 2004 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Attended the International Multiconference on Computer Science and
Engineering at the Monte Carlo Hotel in Las Vegas, NV, June 20-24,
2004. 

Attended and spoke at the 26th Annual International Conference,
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society [EMBS], on September
4, 2004 in San Francisco, CA

Attended the Fourth Annual 2002 Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics Conference at Calvin College
in Grand Rapids, MI on February 10, 2002.  My student (then an undergraduate), William Lindsey, presented
a talk on our research results.

Attended the 2002 Meeting of the Minds at Oakland University.
My student (then an undergraduate), William Lindsey, gave a presentation
on our research results.


POSITIONS HELD AND MEMBERSHIPS
JOURNALS REFEREED

GRANT PROPOSALS REVIEWED

Natural Sciences and Engineering, Research Council of Canada


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