Curriculum Vita

Graduate:

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), 1994

Thesis Title: A Model for Nonlinear Diffusion in Polymers

Thesis Advisor: Donald S. Cohen

Undergraduate:

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

B.S. with Honor (Applied Mathematics), 1990

Actuarial Science:

2004 System: Passed Exams P, MF, M, and all VEE

1990s System: Passed Exams 100, 110, 120, 130, 135, 140, 150, 151

July 2025-present

Professor

Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Kenyon College

Gambier, Ohio

Teach (undergraduate) Ordinary Differential Equations, Multivariable Calculus.

September 2007-August 2025

(Tenured) Professor

Department of Mathematical Sciences

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware

Pursued interesting questions in biochemical reactions, electrogenerated chemiluminescence waves, neural signaling in the olfactory system, solar cells, mathematical finance, box office dynamics, 3-D printing, and transport in foams. Taught (undergraduate) Differential Equations with Linear Algebra I and II, Elementary Linear Algebra, Engineering Mathematics I, Ordinary Differential Equations, Application of Mathematics in Economics, Introduction to Partial Differential Equations and (graduate) Introduction to Applied Mathematics I and II, Modeling in Applied Mathematics, Techniques of Applied Mathematics, Vector Spaces, Asymptotics and Perturbation Methods, and Introduction to Mathematical Finance.

September 2010-August 2011

Interim Chair
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware: Led a department of over 50 full-time faculty and staff. Responsible for faculty and personnel development, program development and departmental planning, and budgetary functions.

September 2022-August 2024

September 2005-August 2010

Associate Chair
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware: Had primary responsibility for most teaching-related functions of the department. Responsible for course scheduling and instructor assignment for mathematical sciences courses. Served as complaint resolution official. Approved transfers of credit and grade changes. Supervised some instructional personnel.

March 1999-September 2024

Consultant
Jones Day
Washington, District of Columbia: Analyze the validity of mathematical models presented as evidence in litigation. Perform statistical analysis of various data introduced in litigation.

September 2001-August 2007

(Tenured) Associate Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware: Pursued interesting questions in mathematical finance, neural signaling in the olfactory system, and biological bimolecular reactions. Also did modeling research in polymer skinning. Taught (undergraduate) Analytic Geometry and Calculus A, Ordinary Differential Equations, Differential Equations with Linear Algebra I, and (graduate) Asymptotics and Perturbation Methods, Vector Spaces, and Introduction to Applied Mathematics I and II.

September 1997-August 2001

(Tenure-Track) Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware: Pursued research in polymers, biological bimolecular reactions, shear band formation, and box office dynamics. Teach (undergraduate) Analytic Geometry and Calculus A and C, Elementary Linear Algebra, Differential Equations with Linear Algebra I and II, and (graduate) Topics in Differential and Integral Equations and Introduction to Applied Mathematics I and II.

August 1995-July 1997

Visiting Assistant Professor/NSF Research Instructor
Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, Maryland: Pursued interesting questions related to my thesis research in polymers and explore new avenues of investigation, including viscoelastic rod dynamics, shear band formation, and biological bimolecular reactions. Taught (undergraduate) Introduction to Linear Algebra and (undergraduate/graduate) Methods and Models in Applied Mathematics II.

September 1994-August 1995

Assistant Professor of Mathematics/Courant Instructor/ NSF Research Instructor
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
New York, New York: Pursued interesting questions related to my thesis research in polymers and explored new avenues of investigation, including Prandtl boundary-layer flow. Taught (undergraduate) Calculus I and (graduate) Linear Algebra II.

Research:

National Science Foundation, 2013-17

National Institutes of Health, 2002-07 (subcontract PI; PI: Paul Milewski)

National Science Foundation, 1999-2002

University of Delaware Research Foundation, 1999-2001

Workshops:

National Science Foundation, Support of the Sixteenth Annual Gradute Student Mathematical Modeling Camp, 2020-22 (PI)

National Science Foundation, Support of the Fifteenth Annual Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp, 2019-22 (PI)

National Science Foundation, Support of the Twenty-Ninth through Thirty-Fifth Annual Workshop on Problems in Industry, 2013-19 (co-PI)

National Science Foundation, Support of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Workshop on Problems in Industry, 2012 (co-PI)

Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications:: Support of the Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp in 2023 ($2,500, co-PI), 2021 ($5,000, co-PI), 2019 ($4,000, co-PI); Support of the Mathematical Problems in Industry Workshop in 2015 ($5,000, co-PI), 2012 ($5,000, co-PI), 2007 ($5,000, co-PI), 2004 ($4,000, co-PI)
National Institute for Standards and Technology:: Support of the Mathematical Problems in Industry Workshop in 2000 ($8,500, PI: Richard Braun), 1999 ($5,000, PI: Richard Braun)

Postdoctoral:

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Instructor, 1994-97

Graduate:

Hertz Foundation Fellow, 1993-94

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1990-93

Invited Presentations:

Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, April 2025 (colloquium: Video Recording)

Department of Mathematics, Kutztown University, April 2025 (18th Pirnot Lecture: Video Recording)

Toyota-UD Applied Math Initiative Workshop for High School Teachers, University of Delaware, July 2014

Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, October 2012

Conference on Applied Analysis and Mathematical Biology, University of Delaware, August 2012

Degenerate Reaction-Diffusion Equations Arising in Polymer Diffusion and Their Connection to Problems in Mathematical Biology (2 talks), Brunel University, July 2008

The Legacy of John Crank: Developments in Time Dependent PDEs, Diffusion and Free Boundary Problems, Brunel University, July 2008

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, April 2008

Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, November 2004

Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, October 2004

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, September 2004 (colloquium)

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics , University of Pennsylvania, September 2002

Department of Mathematics , University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2001

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, October 2000

Biosensor Core Facility, University of Pennsylvania, September 2000

School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, January 2000

Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, April 1999 (Math Awareness Month public lecture)

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Nebraska, January 1999 (colloquium)

Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, September 1998

Department of Chemical Engineering, Drexel University, February 1998

Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, May 1997

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, September 1996

Minisymposia:

SIAM Conference on Applied Mathematics Education, Pittsburgh, July 2022

AMS Sectional Meeting #1098, Catonsville, MD, March 2014

SIAM Annual Meeting, Denver, July 2009

SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry: Challenges and Frontiers, Philadelphia, October 2007

Joint SIAM-SMB Conference on the Life Sciences, Raleigh, August 2006 (co-organizer)

SIAM Annual Meeting, New Orleans, July 2005 (co-organizer)

AMS Sectional Meeting #1005, Newark, DE, April 2005 (session organizer and additional paper)

Fourteenth U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Blacksburg, June 2002

SIAM Annual Meeting , San Diego, July 2001 (co-organizer)

SIAM Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, July 1993

Contributed Papers:

SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics & Engineering, Toronto, July 2019

SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, July 2016

SMB Annual Meeting, Atlanta, July 2015

SIAM Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, July 2010

SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, July 2001

SIAM Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico, July 2000

Nonlinear Analysis 2000-->, New York, May 2000 (poster presentation)

Third SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Philadelphia, May 2000

BIAsymposium, San Francisco, November 1999 (poster presentation)

SIAM Annual Meeting, Toronto, July 1998 (two papers: talk 1, talk 2)

Ninth International Coating Science and Technology Symposium, Newark, DE, May 1998 (proceedings published; see [O10])

SIAM Annual Meeting, Kansas City, July 1996 (session chair)

AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 1994

SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, July 1994

Workshops resulting in reports:

Mathematical Problems in Industry Workshop:
(Asterisks indicate served on organizing committee): 2025^* (Claremont, CA), 2024^* (Burlington, VT; [O39]), 2023^* (Newark, NJ; [O38]), 2022^* (Worcester, MA; [O37]), 2021^* ([O33]), 2020^* ([O32]), 2019^* (Newark, NJ; [O31] and [O35]), 2018^* (Claremont, CA; [O30] and [O34]), 2017^* (Newark, NJ; [O29]), 2016^* (Durham, NC; [O28]), 2015^* (Newark, DE; [O27]), 2014^* (Newark, NJ; [O26]), 2013^* (Worcester, MA; [O25]), 2012^* (Newark, DE; [O24]), 2011 (Newark, NJ; [O23]), 2010 (Troy, NY; [O22]), 2009^* (Newark, DE; [O21]), 2007^* (Newark, DE; [O20]), 2006^* (Needham, MA; [O19] and [O36]), 2005 (Worcester, MA; [O18]), 2004^* (Newark. DE; [O17]), 2001 (Troy, NY; [O14]), 2000^* (Newark, DE; [O13]), 1999^* (Newark, DE; [O12] ), 1998 (Troy, NY; [O11]), 1997 (Troy, NY; [O9]), 1996 (Troy, NY; [O8]), 1995 (Albuquerque, NM; [O6])
Pall Corporation Industrial Study Group, Portsmouth, UK, March 2013

Disciplinary:

Co-Director, Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp: 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023

Member, Organizing Committee, Mathematical Problems in Industry Workshop in 1999 , 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Professional Affiliations:

SIAM

Reviewer for:

Biological Journals: Biometrical Journal; Biophysical Journal; European Biophysics Journal; Journal of Mathematical Biology; Journal of Theoretical Biology; Mathematical Biosciences; Mathematical Medicine and Biology
Business Journals: Computational Economics; Quantitative Finance
Engineering and Science Journals: AIChE Journal; The European Physical Journal Plus; IEEE Sensors Journal; Journal of Applied Polymer Science; Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer; Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics; Journal of Rheology; Macromolecular Theory and Simulations; Physica A
General Interest Journals: Journal of Multidisciplinary Applied Natural Science; Scientific Reports; UMBC Review
Mathematics Journals: Applicable Analysis; Applied Mathematics Letters; Computers, Materials, and Continua; European Journal of Applied Mathematics; International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences; Journal of Engineering Mathematics; Journal of Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Mathematical and Computer Modelling; Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences; Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis; Mathematical Reviews; Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations; SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics; SIAM Review (manuscripts and books); SIAM Undergraduate Research Online; Studies in Applied Mathematics; ZAMP
Books: Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing; Prentice-Hall Publishing; SIAM Publishing; Springer-Verlag Publishing
Funding: Arkansas Science and Technology Authority; Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems; National Science Foundation; Petroleum Research Fund

promotion and tenure consideration (external)

Other:

Web-page design for non-profit corporation, 1997-1998

Computer Skills:

Extensive classroom implementation of numerical analysis techniques, including finite difference methods, iterative solvers, finite element techniques, multigrid, and spectral methods on ordinary and partial differential equations of all types.

Extensive knowledge of Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, and TEX.

Good working knowledge of C, C++, Canvas, HTML, LaTEX, Moodle, Python, and Qualtrics.

Extensive knowledge of Macintosh operating system.

Good working knowledge of UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Familiarity with Linux operating system.

Languages:

Excellent French reading comprehension and writing skills.

Acceptable French oral communication skills.

Available upon request

Curriculum Vita

David A. Edwards
Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH 43022
(740) 427-5536

Education

Experience

Scholarly Funding

Presentations and Workshops

Other Service and Awards

Technical Skills

References, Teaching Portfolio

David A. Edwards Professor of Mathematics Department of Mathematics and Statistics Kenyon College Gambier, OH 43022 (740) 427-5536