Charles Knessl's Home Page

Knessl with former student, now Professor, Peter Yang (left)
Address:
Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
851 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7045
Phone: (312) 413-2141, Fax: (312) 996-1491
e-mail: knessl@uic.edu
Education:
- Ph.D 1986 Applied Mathematics, Northwestern Univ.
- M.S. 1983 Applied Mathematics, Northwestern Univ.
- M.S. 1982 Mathematics, Univ. of Illinois-Chicago
- B.A. 1982 Chemistry, Univ. of Illinois-Chicago
Employment:
- 1994-present Professor Univ. of Illinois-Chicago
- 1990-1994 Associate Professor ""
- 1987-1990 Assistant Professor ""
- 1986-1987 Postdoctoral Fellow Northwestern Univ.
Professional Honors:
- National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowship, 1982-1985
- International Business Machines (IBM) pre-doctoral fellowshoip, 1985-1986
- National Science Foundation (NSF) mathematical sciences postdoctoral research fellowship, 1986-1989
- NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1988-1994
  Sloan Fellowship, 1990-1993
Research Interests:
Asymptotic and singular perturbation methods, applied stochastic models, queuing and risk theory, problems of convection and diffusion, analysis of algorithms and problems in computer science, financial mathematics, applications of special functions