Kirk Lancaster is a Professor in the Department of
Mathematics and Statistics at
Wichita State University. His primary research interests include Partial
Differential Equations, Minimal and Capillary Surfaces, and Free Boundary
Problems. Other research interests include Tomography and the Numerical
Approximation of Solutions of Partial Differential Equations.
He came to WSU in 1980 as an assistant professor. In 1996, he
won WSU's Leadership in the Advancement of Teaching Award.
In 1998, his paper "Existence and behavior of the radial limits of a bounded capillary surface at a corner.",
Pacific J. Math. 176 (1996), 165-194 (with Professor David Siegel of the University of Waterloo)
received a Featured Review
(MR 98g:58030a).
In 2007, he received the WSU Distinguished Service Award.
Education
1981 - Ph.D. in Mathematics, Oregon State University , Corvallis, Oregon Math Genealogy Bent Peterson, Isadore Singer,
Irving Segal, C. Einar Hille, Marcel Riesz, Leopold Fejer, Hermann Schwarz, Ernst Kummer - Karl Weierstrass,
etc.
1972 - High School Diploma, Eureka Senior High School , Eureka, California
Organization of Meetings
Organizer: Kansas Section, Mathematics Association of America 2007 Conference, Wichita State University,
Wichita, Kansas, March 30-31, 2007.
Member of Organizing Committee: 11th Midwest Geometry Conference, Wichita, Kansas, April 27-29, 2001.
Organizer: special session on "Free Surface Interfaces and Partial Differential
Equations," AMS meeting, Austin, Texas, October 8-10, 1999 (co-organizer Thomas
Vogel)
Member of Organizing Committee: International Conference on Geometric
Analysis and Continuum Mechanics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California,
August, 1993.
Organizer: special session on "Boundary Behavior in Partial
Differential Equations," AMS-MAA annual meeting, San Francisco, California,
January, 1991.
Organizer: special session on "Free Boundary Problems and Partial
Differential Equations", AMS-MAA summer meeting, Boulder, Colo., Aug., 1989
(co-organizer Edward Stredulinsky).
