Senior Lecturer in Mathematics

Room 321

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

2nd floor, Faculty of Science & Technology (FST) building

St. Augustine

Trinidad and Tobago

Telephone: 868-662-2002 ext. 83099

Email: donna.dyer@sta.uwi.edu


Qualifications

  • Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics); Northwestern University, IL, USA.
  • M.Phil. (Applied Mathematics, Fluid Mechanics), The University of The West Indies, St Augustine
  • B.Sc. in Mathematics and Chemistry (Double Major), The University of The West Indies, St Augustine

Fellowships and Training

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Mathematics (CMUC), University of Coimbra, Portugal (2005-2006)

Research Interests

  • Applied Mathematical Epidemiology, Mathematical Modelling

Professional Experience

  • Senior Lecturer in Mathematics (above the bar, with tenure): UWI St. Augustine Campus (2014 - present)
  • Lecturer in Mathematics: UWI, St. Augustine Campus (2006 - 2013)

Skills

  • MATLAB, Maple, LaTeX, Microsoft Office

Honours and Awards

  • Best paper award, 2019 International Conference of Applied and Engineering Mathematics, London, England.
  • Northwestern University Smith Fellowship (2004)
  • Fulbright Scholarship (2001)
  • UNESCO-Cariscience-TWAS award: for the best Masters Thesis in the Caribbean (2001)
  • UWI Human Development & Endowment Bursary (1993)
  • UWI Bursary (1992)

Public Service

  • Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews, American Mathematical Society: www.ams.org/mr-database.

Professional Memberships

  • Founding Member and Executive Committee Member (Secretary) of LACCOTAM – Latin American and Caribbean Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, a IUTAM-affiliated organization. (https://iutam.org/about-iutam/affiliated-organisations )

Courses Taught

  • MATH 1142 – Calculus I
  • MATH 2270 – Multivariable Calculus
  • MATH 3275 – Introduction to Complex Analysis
  • MATH 2271 – Ordinary Differential Equations
  • MATH 6191 – Asymptotic and Perturbation Analysis
  • MATH 6192 – Advanced Mathematical Modelling
  • MATH 6193 – Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
  • MATH 6140 – Advanced Mathematical Methods

Research Projects

  • Applied mathematical epidemiology (social contagion models)
  • Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM) and applications
  • Fluid Mechanics and applications

Graduate Students

  • Mr. Marvin Mack (M.Sc.)
  • Mr. Jagdesh Ramnanan (Ph.D)
  • Mr. Royan George (M.Sc.)
  • Ms. Andesha Elder (M.Sc.)
  • Ms. Sarah Robinson-Gibbs (M.Sc.)
  • Mr. Tyrone Dass (Ph.D.)

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