Dr. Lance Drager

Research Interests

Applied Mathematics, Analysis, Control Theory, Geometry, Mathematical Physics, Ordinary Differential Equations, and Partial Differential Equations

Biography

Lance Drager received his BA Magna Cum Laude from the University of Minnesota in 1972 andreceived Master's (1973) and Ph.D. (1978) degrees from Brandeis University. After a Visiting Membershipat the Courant Institute and an appointment at Georgia Tech, he came to Texas Tech as an Assistant Professorin 1983, and became Associate Professor in 1990.His research interests are in Geometric Analysis and its applications, including Differential Geometry, Mathematical Control Theory, Ordinary, Partial and Functional Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics. He has worked with scientists in other disciplines; a paper with twoco-authors was awarded the Best Paper of the Year in 2003 by the journal