OMAR HIJAB

hijab@temple.edu

Education

  • B.S. Mathematics, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1974.
  • Ph.D. Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 1980.
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University, 1980 - 1981.

Current Employment

  • Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Operations, College of Science and Technology, Temple University.

Employment History

  • Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Operations, CST, Temple University, November 1, 2009.
  • Chair, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, July 1, 2004 - October 31, 2009.
  • Professor of Mathematics, Temple University, 1984 - 2009. (Assistant 1984, Associate 1987, Full 1992.)
  • Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1982 - 1984.
  • Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1981 - 1982.

Awards

  • National Science Foundation Grants, 1985 - 1995, Problems in Filtering & Stochastic Control.
  • Fulbright Scholar, 1989.
  • Featured Review: A Simple Free Boundary Problem in Rd, SIAM Journal of Control & Optimization 32 (1994) 501-515. (with G. Ferreyra)

Publications

  • Books: Stabilization of Control Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1987, Introduction to Calculus and Classical Analysis, Springer-Verlag 1997, second edition 2007, third edition 2011.
  • Papers: 25 articles on Control, Filtering, Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics, Optimization.

Conferences Organized

  • Workshop on Control & PDE's, Temple University Center City, December 4-5, 1992.
  • Heat Kernel Analysis on Lie Groups, AMS Conference Session, April 4-5, 1998, Temple University Center City.

Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised

  • Clifford Johnston, On the Solvability of Fully Nonlinear Degenerate Elliptic Second Order Partial Differential Equations with Large Zeroth Order Coefficient, May 1992 (currently tenured at West Chester University of Pennsylvania).