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Kathleen R. Fowler
Associate Professor of Mathematics
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Where
to find me:
Offiice:
Offce Hours: TBA
Phone: (315) 268-2376
Email: kfowler@clarkson.edu
Mailing Address:
Clarkson University
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
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My
professional and academic history is contained in my vita
(pdf version)
My publications are also listed below.
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Teaching:
(These links are pretty old…everything current is on Blackboard)
MA726 Graduate Seminar in Applied Mathematics Communication (Spring 2008)
Calc I (MA131)
Calc II (MA132)
Calc III (MA231)
Numerical Methods(MA377)
Intro to Applied Optimization (MA579)
Engineering Math (MA330)
Other Links:
Research
Educational
Outreach: IMPETUS for Career Success funded by NYSED STEP
I am a local coordinator of our middle school MATHCOUNTS
program
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I am grateful to the American Institute of Mathematics for
funding our Workshop on
Derivative-Free
Hybrid Optimization Methods for Solving Simulation-based Problems in Hydrology
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I coach teams for the
COMAP
International Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
In 2009 we had THREE Meritorious Winning Teams and an
OUTSTANDING Team with the MAA Award!
Congratulations to our students!
We are currently training our teams for next year’s competition.
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I am an affiliate of the
Institute for a Sustainable Environment
In summer of 2004 I visited
for four weeks thanks to a grant from the
Association for Women in Mathematics
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Publications:
1. Lozo, K., Mondal, S., Fowler, K. R.,
Brydges, B. A Mathematical Modeling
Approach to Understanding the Impact of STEM Institutes on Building Teachers
Leaders, International Journal of Arts
and Sciences, 4(11), October 2011.
2. Brackett-Rozinsky, N., Mondal, S., Fowler, K. R., Jenkins, E. W., Analysis of Model Parameters for a Polymer Filtration Simulator, Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, October 2011.
3. Guannan Jiang, M. Crimi, K. Fowler, and X. Fu, Experimental Design of Diffusion and Desorption of Contaminants in Heterogeneous Media, Water Science and Technology, 64(4) 988-998, 2011.
4. Farthing,
M. W., Fowler, K. R., Fu, X., Davis, A., Miller, C. T. , The Effect of Model Resolution on a Set of
Community Problems for Optimal Design in Water Resources, submitted to Advances in Water Resources, 2011.
5. Leventhal, B., Fu, X., Fowler, K. R., Eslinger, O. J. Parameter Identification and Sensitivity Analysis to a Thermal Diffusivity Inverse Problem, Submitted to Involve, 2011.
6. Parno, M. D., Hemker, T., Fowler, K. R. Applicability of Surrogates to Improve the Efficiency of Particle Swarm Optimization, Engineering Optimization, September 2011.
7. Lowenstein,
K, Leventhal, B., Drouin, K., Dowman, R., Fowler, K. R., Mondal, S., Simulation
and Model Calibration with Sensitivity Analysis for Threat Detection in the
Brain, Proceedings of the The 23rd European Modeling & Simulation
Symposium, Rome, Italy September 2011.
8. Fowler, K.R., Kopp, T., Orsini, J., Griffin, J., Gray, G., An Asynchronous Parallel Hybrid Optimization Approach to Simulation-based Mixed-integer Nonlinear Problems, Proceedings of the The 23rd European Modeling & Simulation Symposium, Rome, Italy September 2011.
9. J.D. Griffin, K.R. Fowler, G.A. Gray, T. Hemker, and M.D. Parno, Derivative-free Optimization via Evolutionary Algorithms Guiding Local Search (EAGLS) for MINLP, Pacific Journal of Optimization 7(3), 425-443 September 2011.
10. Gray, G. A., Fowler, K. R. The Effectiveness of Derivative-free Hybrid methods for Black-box Optimization. International Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Optimization, 2(2), 112-133, 2011.
11. Fowler, K. R., Jenkins, E. W., McClune, B. P., Polymer Extrusion Filter Design with a Hybrid PSO-GA Optimization Technique, Filtration, 11(1), 58-64, 2011.
12. G.A. Gray and K.R. Fowler, Traditional and Hybrid Derivative-free Optimization Approaches to Black-box Objective Functions, book chapter in Computational Optimization, Methods and Algorithms, X. Yang, S. Koziel (Ed.), , Springer, 2011.
13. G.S. Yamoah, K.R. Fowler, O.J. Eslinger, Spatially Adaptive Finite Elements with Temporal Adaption Using Local Truncation Error Control for Variably Saturated Flow, Proceedings of the XVIII International conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources,
14. Barcelona, Spain, June 2010.
15. G.A. Gray, K.R. Fowler, J.D. Griffin, A Hybrid Optimization Schemes for Simulation-based Optimization, accepted to the 2010 International Conference on Computational Science, Amsterdam, May 2010 (Best Paper Award!)
16. Skufca, J. D., Fowler, K. R., An Interdisciplinary Roller Coaster Design Project for Pre-Calculus, NYS Mathematics Teachers' Journal, 60(3), 2010.
17. K.R. Fowler, P. Turner, A Holistic Approach to Applied Mathematics Education for Middle and High Schools, accepted to appear in the proceedings of the ICMI/ICIAM conference on Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and Industry, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2010.
18. K.R. Fowler, E.W. Jenkins, S.M. LaLonde, Understanding the Effects of Polymer Extrusion Filter Layering Configurations Using Derivative-Free Optimization, to appear in Optimization and Engineering (doi: 10.1007/s11081-009-9096-0), November 2009.
19. G.A. Gray, K.R. Fowler, J.D. Griffin, A Hybrid Optimization Scheme for Solving the Hydraulic Capture Problem with an Unknown Number of Wells, The First International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Funchal, Madeira, Portugal 1-4 September 2009.
20. K.R. Fowler, E.W. Jenkins, S.M. LaLonde, and C.L. Cox, A Simulation-based Optimization Approach to Polymer Extrusion Filter Design, Filtration, 9(3), 224--230, July 2009.
21. B.
Zhang, K.R. Fowler, M. Grace, S. Mondal, S.J. Grimberg, Optimization of
Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1): Simulation of Dairy Manure Digestion,
Proceedings of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological
Engineers Annual International Meeting, Reno, Nevada, June 2009.
22. Aiman
Q. Jaradat, Kathleen Fowler, Stefan J. Grimberg, Thomas M. Holsen, Rajat S.
Ghosh, Treatment of Storm Water Containing Low Levels of PCBs Using Natural
Media Filtration, Evironmental
Engineering Science, 26(4): 799-808, April 2009.
23. Aiman Q. Jaradat, K. Fowler, Stefan J. Grimberg , and Thomas M. Holsen, Transport of Colloids and Associated Hydrophobic Organic Chemicals Through a Natural Media Filter, Journal of Environmental Engineering, 135(1), 36-45, January 2009.
24. V.
Krishnamurthy, E. Sazonov, and K. Fowler,
Effect of Time Synchronization of
Wireless Sensors on Modal Analysis of Structures, Smart Materials and
Structures, 7(15), July 2008.
25. K.R. Fowler, J.P. Reese, C.E. Kees, J.E. Dennis, Jr., C.T. Kelley, C.T. Miller, C. Audet, A.J. Booker, G. Couture, R.W. Darwin, M.W. Farthing, D.E. Finkel, J.M. Gablonsky, G. Gray, T.G. Kolda, A Comparison of Derivative-free Optimization Methods for Water Supply and Hydraulic Capture Community Problems, Advances in Water Resources, 31(5), 743-757, May 2008.
26. J. Qian, K.R. Fowler, A.R. Ferro, Estimating the Resuspension Rate and Residence Time of Indoor Particles, The Journal of Air and Waste Management Association, Vol. 58, pp. 502-516, April 2008.
27. K.R. Fowler, B. McClune, E.W. Jenkins, C. L. Cox, B. Seyfzadeh, Design Analysis of a Polymer Filter Using a Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm, Separation Science and Technology, 43(4) 710-726, March 2008.
28. K.R. Fowler, G.A. Gray, M.S. Olufsen, Modelling Heart Rate Regulation Part II: Parameter Identification, The Journal of Cardiovascular Engineering, 8(2), 109-119, April 2008.
29. P.Turner, K.R. Fowler, D. Wick, M. Ramsdell, G. Gotham, E. Glasgow, C. French, BOCES-University Partnerships as a Model for Educational Outreach: K-16 STEM Professional Development, the Proceedings for the Inaugural Math and Science Symposium, Knoxville, TN, October 2007.
30. T. Hemker, K.R. Fowler, M.W. Farthing, O. Von Stryk, A Mixed-integer Simulation-based Optimization Approach With Surrogate Functions in Water Resources Management, accepted to appear in Optimization and Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/s11081-008-9048-0, June 2008.
31. L.S. Matott, S.L. Bartlelt-Hunt, A.J. Rabideau, and K.R. Fowler, Application of Heuristic Techniques and Algorithm Tuning to a multilayered sorptive barrier system, Environmental Science \& Technology, 40, 6354 - 6360, 2006.
32. G.A.
Gray and K.R. Fowler, Approaching the Groundwater Remediation
Problem Using Multi-fidelity Optimization,
proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Computational Methods
in Water Resources, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2006.
33. T.
Hemker, K.R. Fowler , and O. Van Stryk, Derivative-Free
Methods for Handling Fixed Costs in Optimal Groundwater Remediation Design, proceedings of the XVI International Conference
on Computational Methods in Water Resources, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2006.
34. K.R. Fowler and C.T. Kelley, Pseudotransient Continuation for Nonsmooth Nonlinear Equations, SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, 43(4), 2005, pages 1385-1406.
35. K.R. Fowler, C.T. Kelley, C.E. Kees, and Cass. T. Miller, A Hydraulic Capture Application For Optimal Remediation Design, Proceedings of the XV International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, C.T. Miller, M.W. Farthing, W.G. Gray, G.F. Pinder, editors, 2004.
36. C.T.
Kelley, K.R. Fowler, C.E. Kees, Simulation of Nondifferentiable Models for
groundwater Flow and Transport, Proceedings of the XV International
Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, C.T. Miller, M.W.
Farthing, W.G. Gray, G.F. Pinder, editors, 2004.
37. K.R. Fowler, C. T. Kelley, C. T. Miller, Mark S. C. Reed, C. E. Kees, Robert W. Darwin,J.P. Reese, and M.W. Farthing, Solution to a Well-Field Design Problem with Implicit Filtering, Optimization and Engineering(5) 207–234, May 2004.
39. A.
Battermann, J. M. Gablonsky, A. Patrick, C. T. Kelley, T. Coffey, K. Kavanagh
(Fowler) , and C. T. Miller, Solution
of a Groundwater Flow Problem With Implicit Filtering , Optimization and Engineering, (3), 2002,
189-199.