Assistant Professor Jill McGowan
Arrived Howard University: August, 1994
Research Interests: Differential geometry, wavelets, signal processing.
Ph.D.: University of Maryland-College Park, May, 1991
Office: Room 205, ASB
Phone: 202-806-6837
Brief Research Biography
Education
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University of Maryland, College Park (Ph.D. in Mathematics, May 1991,
Advisor: Karsten Grove)
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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C.
(J.D. May 1980)
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BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, BRYN MAWR, PA.
B.A. (May 1977, with honors)
Anna Pell Wheeler Award in Mathematics
(Mathematics major, physics minor)
Employment
- Howard University, Washington DC (8/1994 - present)
- University of Puerto Rico,
Recinto Universitario Mayaguez, Mayaguez, P.R. (August 1993-May 1994)
- Howard University, Washington DC (8/1990 - 5/1993)
- University of Maryland, College Park
(Graduate Teaching Assistant, 9/1980-5/1991)
- Legal writer and editor, Tax Analysts (1981-1990)
My areas of research are differential geometry, wavelets,
and mathematical aspects of signal processing.
Research Publications:
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"The Diameter Function on the Space of Space Forms",
Comp. Math. 87(1993)79-83.
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(with Akram Aldroubi)
"Oblique and biorthogonal multi-wavelet bases with fast-filtering
algorithms", in
Wavelet applications in signal and image processing, III
(San Diego, CA, 1995), 15-26, Proc. SPIE,
2569, SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 1995.
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(with Catherine Searle) "Diameters of Spaces Resulting from
Cohomogeneity 2 Actions on Spheres", preprint, available
in both dvi or
plain tex.
Invited presentations:
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Instituto de Matematicas, Unidad Cuernavaca-UNAM,
Cuernavaca, Mexico, March 20-28, 1999.
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Howard University, Washington, D.C., Seminar on Vector Bundles
and Sheaves, several talks on diameters of manifolds with
bounded curvature, April 1998.
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Trinity College, Washington, D.C., April 1992, colloquium lecture.
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American University, Washington, D.C., February 1992,
colloquium lecture.
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Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, April 1991,
colloquium lecture.
Current research interests: Currently I am working on various projects
related to the understanding of the geometry of the
quotient spaces Sn/G, where G is
a compact, connected Lie group, acting isometrically on Sn,
the standard sphere in Rn+1 of radius 1.
Also, I am exploring various applications of
wavelets to signal and image processing.
Selected Teaching and Administration:
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Library Committee, Howard Mathematics Department,
September 1998-present.
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Undergraduate Counselor, Howard Mathematics Department,
Fall 1998-present.
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Writing Across the Curriculum Seminar, Summer 1997.
- Course coordinator for graduate differential geometry
course.
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Member:
American Mathematical Society
Mathematical Association of America
District of Columbia Bar Association
Courses Spring 2004:
College Algebra II
Topology II
Assist. Prof. Jill McGowan
Mathematics Dept
Howard University
Washington DC 20059
office: 202-806-6837
jmcgowan@fac.howard.edu
http://138.238.61.55/~reb/Pages/McGowan/mcgowan.htm
Last Updated 2/12/04