Professor Azmy S. Ackleh
Dean of the Ray P. Authement College of Sciences and Professor of Mathematics
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

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Azmy S. Ackleh received his PhD from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1993. He then joined the Center for Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University as a postdoctoral fellow until 1995 where he became an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 2000, he became Associate Professor of Mathematics and in 2003 he became Full Professor of Mathematics. In 2007, he was selected to become the R.P. Authement Eminent Scholar and Endowed Chair in Computational Mathematics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. 

Ackleh’s research is in the area of mathematical biology. He has published more than 140 peer-reviewed articles in this area, served as PI or Co-PI on more than $8 million in research grant funding, and served as the major advisor for 16 PhD students. He is particularly interested in the development of continuous and discrete models in population ecology and epidemiology and in using mathematical tools to understand the short-term and long-term behavior of solutions to these models. He develops numerical methods for solving nonlinear PDEs arising in such applications and uses these numerical schemes to analyze the solution behavior. He also applies functional analysis and dynamical systems approaches to study stability and persistence properties of populations. Particular applications that he has worked on include selection-mutation models, amphibian dynamics, the transmission dynamics of Mycobactertium marinum in aquatic animals, and the impact of oil spills on marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Professor Mohammed Seaid
Department of Engineering
Durham University, UK

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Professor Mohammed Seaid first graduated from University Complutense of Madrid in Spain then moved to Darmstadt Technische Universitaet in Germany and Kaiserslautern Technische Universitaet in Germany as a postdoctoral, research associate and assistant professor. In 2017 he held a position of professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Benguerir. He also holds a position of associate professor at School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, University of Durham, UK. His research work has focussed on two areas: (i) modelling free-surface water flows and sediment transport and (ii) development of robust numerical methods for computational hydraulics. Much of his work has been conducted on high-performance computing pltaforms. Together with colleagues in the Fraunhofer Institut Techno und Wirtschaftsmathematik, Kaiserslautern, Germany, he has been developing lattice Boltzmann methods for shallow water equations in tidal flows. The theoretical and computational work recently has focused on the application of lattice Boltzmann methods for deformational problems, which provides a computational framework for examining the performance of lattice Boltzmann methods in spatial domains with moving boundaries. Since taking up his current post at Durham, he has researched into the use and development of adaptive finite volume methods applied particularly to hydraulic engineering problems. He has investigated well-balanced discretizations for shallow water equations on nonflat topography using finite volume techniques. Professor Mohammed Seaid has published more than 100 papers in international journals on computational fluid dynamics and numerical methods for interactions between sediments and water.

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