Academics
Meet the Faculty
Timothy Lucas
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Division: Natural Science Division
Office: Rockwell Academic Center (RAC) 105
Phone: (310) 506-4479
E-mail: timothy.lucas@pepperdine.edu
- Ph.D., Mathematics, Duke University, 2006
- M.A., Mathematics, Duke University, 2001
- A.B., Mathematics, Occidental College, 2000, With Honors
Courses:
- Calculus I, II and III
- Calculus for Business and Economics
- Probability, Linear Systems, and Multivariable Optimization
- Linear Algebra
- Differential Equations
- Partial Differential Equations
Key Awards/Affiliations:
- Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
- L.P. and Barbara Smith Award for Teaching Excellence, Duke University Mathematics Department, August 2004
- MAA Project NExT Fellow, 2008-2009
- Member: Mathematical Association of America, American Mathematical Society
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Academic Interests:
- Mathematical Biology
- Multigrid Methods
- Numerical Analysis
- Parallel Computing
- Partial Differential Equations
- Stochastic Differential Equations
Selected Works:
- Timothy A. Lucas Numerical solutions of an immunology model using reaction-diffusion equations with stochastic source terms. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 49(6), 2011
- Timothy A. Lucas and Joseph Spivey. A transition course from advanced placement to college calculus. PRIMUS, 21(5):417-433, 2011
- Timothy A. Lucas. Operator splitting for an immunology model using reaction-diffusion equations with stochastic source terms. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 46(4), 2008
- Faheem Mitha, Timothy A. Lucas, Feng Feng, Thomas B. Kepler, and Cliburn Chan. The multiscale systems immunology project: Software for cell-based immunological simulation. Source Code for Biology and Medicine, 3(6), 2008
- Timothy A. Lucas. Numerical Solutions of an Immunology Model Using Reaction-Diffusion Equations with Stochastic Source Terms. PhD thesis, Duke University, Aug. 2006
