Jerome V. Moloney

Director, Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences
Professor of Mathematics
Professor of Optical Sciences

Contact InformationPhoto: Professor Jerome Moloney

  • Telephone:
    520-621-6755
  • Email:
    jml@acms.arizona.edu
  • Mailing Address:
    Dr. Jerome V. Moloney
    Department of Mathematics, Building 89
    University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona  85721  USA
  • ACMS web site
    www.acms.arizona.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 1977

  • BSc, University College, Cork, Ireland, 1970

Employment

  • University of Arizona: Department of Mathematics and Optical Sciences, Professor, 1985-present;Optical Sciences; Research Associate Professor, 1984-1985; Research Assistant Professor, 1981-1984; Research Associate, 1979-1981

  • Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland: Reader in Physics, 1984-1990

  • Universitate Bielefeld, West Germany: Fakultat fur Physik, Research Associate (Wissenchaftler Mitarbeiter), 1977-1979

Professional Activities

  • National Research Council, Naval Studies Board, Workshop on Mathematics, Member

  • Mathematics in Material Sciences, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Member, Organizing Committee

  • University of Minnesota, Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, Organizer, Workshop on Nonlinear Optical Materials.

Research

  • Mathematical modeling and simulation of photonics systems including semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers, photonic Bragg and photonic crystal fibers.

  • Fundamental theory of semiconductor lasers including microscopic physics.

  • Modeling high power femtosecond atmospheric light strings.

  • Nonlinear theory of partial differential equations and chaos synchronization in extended complex spatiotemporal interacting systems systems.

  • Sophisticated algorithm development for large scale computational photonics systems simulations including adaptive mesh refinement and parallelization on distributed and shared memory supercomputer platforms.