Deputy Director, IAMCS
Professor of Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering
Phone: 979-845-7242
Email: jwalton@math.tamu.edu
Webpage: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~jay.walton
Jay Walton, Deputy Director for education for IAMCS, earned his bachelor’s in mathematics from Depauw University in 1968, and his master’s and doctorate in mathematics at Indiana University, in 1970 and 1973 respectively. He is currently professor in the Departments of Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M, and is also a visiting professor of mathematics at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
Walton served as associate head for graduate programs in Texas A&M’s Department of Mathematics from 1994 to 2000. He has been part of the department’s faculty since 1973, and has also served in the past as visiting SERC research fellow at Brunel University, in the United Kingdom, and as visiting associate professor at the University of Wisconsin’s Mathematics Research Center. Walton’s research interests include nonlinear elasticity, viscoelasticity, contact and fracture mechanics and nano-mechanics (in material science and engineering); modeling cardiovascular diseases and modeling soft tissue mechanics and growth (in mathematical medicine and physiology); modeling spatial ecology and modeling structured populations (in mathematical ecology); and partial differential equations, integral equations and systems (in mathematical analysis). Walton has had continuing research funding, since 1974, from various federal agencies, including AFOSR, ARO, NASA, ONR and NSF.