Born 5 December 1939 at London. United States Citizen.

Married with two children.

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411

E-Mail: amdavis@ucsd.edu

Telephone: (858) 822-3854

Low Reynolds number hydrodynamics, Scattering of electromagnetic waves, Surface gravity waves on water, Acoustic diffraction

B.A. (1960) - Wrangler and Distinction in Tripos Part III

Ph.D. (1964) - Cambridge under supervision of Professor F. Ursell, F.R.S.

Open Exhibition in Mathematics at St. John's College, Cambridge: December 1956.

D.Sc. (1977) - London for contributions to the theory of surface waves.

1963-65 - Head mathematician at Mining Research Establishment, National Coal Board, 1963-65.

1965-80 - Lecturer in Mathematics at University College London

1970 - Visiting Lecturer in Mathematics at State University of New York at Albany (Summer).

1972-73 - Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics (and Fulbright Scholar) at University of Denver.

1977-78 - Seconded to Mathematics Department, Imperial College, First Semester.

1980-84 - Reader in Mathematics at University College London.

1985 - Visiting Professor of Mathematics and Oceanography at University of Hawaii, Spring Semester.

1985-2006 - Professor of Mathematics, University of Alabama.

Engineering Mathematics
Calculus sequence
Numerical Analysis
Advanced Calculus
Elementary Statistics
Mathematical Methods of Physics
Differential Equations
Fluid Dynamics

General Certificate of Education Examiner at Advanced Level for Oxford Local Examinations Delegacy, 1966-76.

Served on Academic Board and College Committee at University College London and as Departmental Tutor 1979-82.

Emeritus Reader in Mathematics at University College London, 1985-

Ph.D. supervisor of T.C. Price, 1981-84.

Served on numerous Research Grants, Departmental Search, Review and Curriculum Committees, sometimes as chair, and as Graduate Program Director in Applied Math at the University of Alabama.

Referee for numerous journals related to fluid dynamics.

Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews.

Member of SIAM, 1985 -1995

Member of the American Physical Society (Division of Fluid Dynamics), 1986 -

Member of the Acoustical Society of America, 1994 -, Associate Editor of JASA, 2004 -

Elected to International Soc. for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics, 1994 -

Visiting Research Professor at University of Toronto, May-June 1978, July-August 1979, August 1981, July-August 1984, June 1985, June 1986, June-July 1987, June 1988, June 1990, June 1991, July 1992, July 1994, June 1995 and November-December 1998 and June 2001.

Visiting Research Professor at Institute of Oceanography, University of British Columbia, July-August 1978.

Consultant for Xerox Corporation at Chemical Engineering Department, University of Rochester, June 1979, July 1980 and 1981. Consultant at School of Advanced Technology, State University of New York at Binghamton, August 1980 and at Applied Math. Institute, University of Alberta, August 1993.

Visiting Scientist at Chemical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July-August 1982 and January-May 1992, August-October 1998 (sabbatical leaves) July-August 2000, 2001, 2002, July 2003, 2004 and at Department of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, August-October 1998. Visiting Scholar at Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, San Diego, Jan-June 2005 (sabbatical leave)

Visiting Research Fellow in Applied Mathematics at University of New South Wales, Sydney, July-August 1985.

EPSRC Visiting Fellowship at Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Cambridge, June-July 1997

2004-9 - Honorary Professor of Mathematics, University College London.

2006-present - Visiting Scholar at Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

1. School of Mines and Energy Development, U.A. (with P. B. Visscher, R. H. Tipping and A. W. Schultz). Computer modeling and simulation of Black Warrior basin formation, 8/16/87 to 8/15/88. $30,000.

2. National Science Foundation DMS-8714694. Creeping flows through hollow boundaries and stenotic pipes, 9/1/87 to 8/31/89. $22,300

3. DOE Smackover Formation Characterization Project, Geological Survey of Alabama, co-investigator with J.H. Fang and P.B. Visscher on Carbonate Reservoir Heterogeneity, 5/16/89 to 4/15/90.

4. Augmentation of Mathematics component of EPSCoR in Alabama (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research), investigator, N.S.F. and State matching of U.A. support. 1989-91.

5. U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL. (with R.W. Scharstein) Modeling of the response of a conducting cylindrical body to a transient field, 6/11/91 to 11/4/91. $39,678.

6. U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL. (with R.W. Scharstein) Modeling of the response of a conducting open-ended finite cone to a transient field, 2/11/93 to 7/31/93. $38,459.

7. National Institute for Global Environmental Change. Mathematical modeling of the coupled katabatic, ocean and ice systems of the Antaractic, co-P.I. of joint UAH-UA project, 10/1/92 to 6/30/95. UA funding $158,000 for 4 faculty.

8. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS. (with R.W. Scharstein) Penetrable wedge analysis, 5/1/93 to 4/30/94. $29,500.

9. National Science Foundation DMS 9700380 (with L. Hadji). A strongly coupled analytical study of the interaction of foreign particles with a solid-liquid interface in the presence of morphological and fluid instabilities, 6/1/97 to 5/31/00. $111,000.