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DR.SUZANNE LENHART
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Professor Mathematics Department University of Tennessee(UT) knoxville

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B.A. in 1976 from the Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky, with a Kentucky State Secondary Teaching Certificate M. A. in 1978 from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky Ph.D. in 1981 in the area of partial differential equations from the University of Kentucky, Lexington. From 1981-87, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) from 1987-92 an Associate Professor at UTK. 1992, she has been a Full Professor at the UTK.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Partial differential equations Optimal control Population and environmental models Natural Resource Modeling Disease models

PUBLICATIONS:

Optimal Control Applied to Biological Models Lenhart and Workman, 2007 published by Chapman & Hall, CRC Press
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Over 100 journal papers

OTHER INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

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Associate Director of Education, Outreach and Diversity for NIMBioS, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis

President, Association for Women in Mathematics, 2001-2002

Part-time employee of Oak Ridge National Laboratory Member, SIAM Board of Trustees President , AWM Education Committee ,2001-2003 Member , SIAM Education Committee Co-organizer of Association for Women in Math Teacher Partership Program Director of Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at UTK, 1990-2005 Encouraging girls and women to study math and science Playing tennis

Suzanne Lenhart Named 2011 SIAM Fellow ,For contributions to optimal control with biological and physical applications and for contributions to undergraduate research.
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