V.S. "Mano" Manoranjan 

   Phone: (509) 335-5548 or 7811
   E-Mail: mano@wsu.edu


Boeing COMPUresearch 2006
Boeing COMPUteach Workshop 2005
Boeing COMPUteach Workshop Photos 2005 and 2006

PRESENT POSITION

Professor and Chair, Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics

Associate Dean, College of Sciences

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Sciences, Mathematics, University of Sri Lanka (1977)

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Dundee, Scotland (1982)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SERC Research Fellow, University of Dundee (1982-84)

SERC Research Fellow, Oxford University (1984-86)

Lecturer, University of Surrey (1986-89)

Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Washington State University (1989-92)

Associate Professor, Mathematics, Washington State University (1992-95)

Associate Chair, Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Washington State University (1993-96)

AFOSR visiting Professor, Armstrong Laboratory, Tyndall AFB (1994-95)

Professor, Mathematics, Washington State University (1995- )

Chair, Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Washington State University (1996-1999)

INSTRUCTION AND SEMINAR TOPICS

Contaminant transport with nonlinear sorption; Spatial structures for tissue interactions; Solitons and blow-up solutions of long wave equations; Two-step iterative method for advection-diffusion computations.

SPECIALTIES AND RESEARCH AREAS

Mathematical and computer modeling of nonlinear phenomena that arise in engineering and life sciences. Problems of particular interest are: Contaminant transport in ground water; Transdermal drug delivery; Models in developmental biology; Nonlinear waves - Solitons; Iterative methods with large convergence regions.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES - ENVIRONMENTAL MATHEMATICS

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