Homepage of Joceline Lega

I am a professor of mathematics at The University of Arizona.

• Director of the Institute for Mathematics and Education (2009 - present)
• Editor-in-Chief for Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena (2008 - present)
  Special Issues Editor since 2007. Editor since 2004
• Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2004)
• Member of the Editorial Board for Nonlinearity (2004 - present)
• Member of the Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics at the University of Arizona (1997 - present)
• Director, University of Arizona Program in Integrated Science (2008 - 2011)
• Director, NSF GK-12 G-TEAMS Program (2009 - present)

Research Interests

• Modeling of nonlinear phenomena, with applications to physics and biology
• Pattern formation and instabilities
• Dynamics and stability of coherent structures

Conferences Organized

• Co-organizer, Mapping the Calculus Curriculum, Part II (2010)
• Co-organizer, Mapping the Calculus Curriculum (2009)
• Director, 2007 Arizona Summer Program on Mathematical Modeling
• Co-chair, 2006 SIAM conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures
• Co-organizer, Workshop on Patterns in Physics at The Fields Institute (2003)

Professional Memberships

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  Member-at-Large, Section A, Mathematics (2011-)
• American Mathematical Society (AMS)
• Association des Anciens Elèves, Elèves et Amis de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure
• Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
  Secretary of the SIAG on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Strutures (2004-06)

Current Graduate Students

• Joe Dinius, Program in Applied Mathematics
• Marco Herrera-Valdez, Mathematics
• Silvia Madrid-Jaramillo, Program in Applied Mathematics