Sam L. Robinson, Ph.D.

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Professor of Mathematics and Department Chair
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Augusta State University
Augusta, Georgia 30904
706.737.1672
srobinson@aug.edu


Education

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg , Virginia . September 1981 - July 1986. Ph.D., mathematics, specialty in mathematical physics.
• The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina. August 1976 - May 1981. B.S., with honors, in mathematics.

Employment

• Professor and Chair (2004-present), Associate Professor and Acting Chair (2002-2004), Associate Professor (1999-2002), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia. August 1999 - present.
• Associate (1997-1999) and Assistant (1989-1997) Professor, Department of Mathematics, The William Paterson University of New Jersey , Wayne, New Jersey. September 1989 - June 1999.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington , Wilmington, North Carolina. August 1986 - August 1989.
• Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg , Virginia . September 1981 - July 1986.

Publications
Refereed Research Journal Publications

• Approximate Rydberg states of the hydrogen atom that are concentrated near Kepler orbits (with G. A. Hagedorn), Helvetica Physica Acta, 72, 1999, p. 316-340.
• Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rules in the semiclassical limit (with G. A. Hagedorn), Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, Vol. 31, No. 50, 1998, p. 10113-10129.
• Dynamical approach to inhomogeneous rays, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 13, No. 10, 1996, p. 2021 - 2026.
• Semiclassical mechanics for time-dependent Wigner functions, Journal of Mathematical Physics, 34, (6), 1993, p. 2185-2205.
• High frequency asymptotic solution of the wave equation in an inhomogeneous medium, Journal of Mathematical Physics, 32 (3), 1991, p. 651-655.
• The semiclassical limit of quantum dynamics II: scattering theory, Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, 48, 271, 1988, p. 281-296.
• The semiclassical limit of quantum dynamics I: time evolution, Journal of Mathematical Physics, 29 (2), 1988, p. 412-419.

Other Publications

• Wavelets (with Peter F. Ryczek), The Mathematica Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 1995, p. 74-81.

Presentations at Conferences

• Higher order quasimodes in the semiclassical limit, contributed talk at The South Eastern Regional Conference on Differential Equations, Wake Forest University, November 2001.
• High frequency asymptotic solutions for the wave equation in an inhomogeneous medium, invited talk at Mid-Winter Mathematical Physics Days, Virginia Tech, February 1988.
• The semiclassical limit of quantum scattering theory, contributed talk at The University of Alabama at Birmingham International Conference on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, March 1986.

Summer Schools and Workshops Attended

• MATHEMATICA Developers Conference for Advanced Users, Champaign, Illinois, April 1994, October 1995, September 1996, October 1997.
• NSF funded short course on Discrete and Continuous Fourier Analysis, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, August 1991.
• NATO Advanced Study Institute on Nonlinear Evolution and Chaotic Phenomena, Noto, Sicily, June 1987.

Membership in Professional Societies

• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• International Association for Mathematical Physics
• American Mathematical Society
• American Physical Society