Franklin Mendivil
Curriculum Vitae


Address


Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Acadia University
Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6

(902) 585-1368
franklin.mendivil@acadiau.ca


Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, March 1996
Georgia Institute of Technology
Thesis: Compactifications and Function Spaces
Advisor: George Cain

M.S. in Applied Mathematics, June 1991
Georgia Institute of Technology

B.S. in Civil Engineering (with highest honor), September 1989
Georgia Institute of Technology


Employment History

2010 -
Full Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Acadia University

2003 - 2010

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Acadia University

2000 - 2003

Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Acadia University

1998 - 2000

NSF University-Industrial Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow
Georgia Tech School of Mathematics and Iterated Systems, Inc.
Fractal Geometry and Analysis, Stochastic Optimization, Image Processing.

1996 - 1998

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Applied Mathematics , University of Waterloo
Theory of Fractals and Applications to Image Processing

1991 - 1995

TA and Instructor of calculus and linear algebra courses
Georgia Institute of Technology

1989-1990

Research Assistant for Dr. R. Shonkwiler
Worked on Genetic Algorithms to solve Inverse Fractal Problem
Georgia Institute of Technology

1989

Lab Assistant in Hydraulics Lab
Helped with a study for Savannah River Power Station
Georgia Institute of Technology


Books

Selected Publications


Co-authors who are students appear in bold .