Biography
M. Gregory Forest
Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1979
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Department: Mathematics
Address: A316 Phillips Hall
Email:
forest@amath.unc.edu
Homepage: http://www.amath.unc.edu/Faculty/forest/
Phone: 919-962-9606
Research Statement:
The research of Forest relates to theory, modeling, and simulation of macromolecular fluids, including high-performance polymeric materials processing. Forest works on the advancement of models at the kinetic (molecular), mesoscopic, and continuum scales, and on the multi-scale analysis and computation required to understand and simulate these systems. Forest has developed industrial models and codes for synthetic fiber spinlines used world-wide by Hoechst Celanese Corporation, and has contributed toward the fundamental mathematical issues in soft matter modeling. The current focus is on films and full 3 dimensional materials processing of nano-composites, including rod-like and platelet nano-elements.
Education:
| 1968-72 | B.S., Mathematics, University of New Orleans, N.O., LA |
| 1972-73 | M.S., Mathematics, University of New Orleans, N.O., LA |
| 1974-79 | Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
Positions:
| 1996- | Professor of Mathematics and Leader of the Applied Mathematics Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) |
| 1998-00 | Senior Associate Dean for the Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, UNC-CH |
| 1986 | Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Princeton |
| 1980-96 | Regular Visitor, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Lab |
| 1991-94 | Spring quarter visitor, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, UC-Berkeley |
| 1979-96 | Assistant, Associate, Full Professor of Mathematics, Ohio State University |
