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M. Gregory Forest

Grant Dahlstrom Distinguished Professor of Mathematics & Biomedical Engineering
Co-Director, Institute for Advanced Materials, NanoScience and Technology, UNC-CH
Member, Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics
Member, Curriculum in Applied Sciences & Engineering

Office: 316A Phillips Hall
Phone: (919) 962-9606
Administrative Assistant: Jean Foushee-Tyson (919) 962-9343
Email address: forest"at"amath.unc.edu

Educational Background

B.S., Mathematics, Louisiana State University in New Orleans, May, 1972
M.S., Mathematics, Louisiana State University in New Orleans, December, 1973
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Arizona, August, 1979; Advisor: David W. McLaughlin

Previous Positions

Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, September, 1979 thru August, 1984
Associate Professor, Ohio State University, September, 1984 thru August, 1989
Professor, Ohio State University, September, 1989 thru July, 1996
Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July 1, 1998 thru June 30, 2000

Research Interests

Transport processes in the lung (with T. Elston, S. Mitran, K. Xu, I. Klapper, L. Yao, B. Lindley, G. Herschlag, J. Fricks, C. Honenegger, S. McKinley, D. Hill, J. Cribb, R. Superfine, J. Sheehan, B. Button, R. Tarran, R. Boucher, R. Taylor and other collaborators in the Virtual Lung Project at UNC)
Flow and Structure of Nano-Materials & Macromolecular Fluids (with W. Mullins, Q. Wang, H. Zhou, R. Zhou, E. Samulski, X. Zheng, E. Choate, J. Lee, Z. Cui, R. Lipton, R. Vaia, H. Wang, J. Shen, X. Yang, K. Xu, S. Mitran, D. Trebotich, G. Miller).
Integrable Dispersive Wave Theory and Optical Fiber Applications (with K. McLaughlin, N. Kutz, O. Wright, C-J Rosenberg).
Inverse Problems for Material Characterization (with S. Bechtel, H. Zhou, K. Koelling, D. Hill, K. Xu, J. Wehner, T. Elston, J. Fricks, L. Yao, C. Hohenegger, S. McKinley, R. Superfine, S. Mitran, B. Lindley, Q. Wang, E. Choate, R. Zhou, X. Zheng).

Research Group

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Collaborators

Stephen E. Bechtel, Ohio State University
Roberto Camassa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)
Eric Choate, U. South Carolina
Jeremy Cribb, UNC
Zhenlu Cui, Fayetteville State University
Greg Herschlag, UNC
David Hill, UNC
Anita Layton, Duke
Joohee Lee, UNC
Brandon Lindley, U. South Carolina
Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University
Kenneth McLaughlin, University of Arizona
Richard McLaughlin, UNC
Scott McKinley, Duke University
Casey Miller, UNC
Greg Miller, University of California at Davis
Sorin Mitran, UNC
Bill Mullins, UNC & Army Research Office
Michael Rubinstein,UNC
Jie Shen, Purdue University
Richard Superfine, UNC
Russ Taylor, UNC
David Trebotich, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Richard Vaia, Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB
Hongyun Wang, University of California at Santa Cruz
Qi Wang, Florida State University
Jessica Wehner, UNC
Otis Wright, Cedarville University, Cedarville, OH
Ke Xu, UNC
Xiaofeng Yang, Purdue University and UNC
Lingxing Yao, University of Utah
Xiaoyu Zheng, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Hong Zhou, Naval Postgraduate School
Ruhai Zhou, Old Dominion University