Linda Joy Svoboda Allen is an American mathematician and mathematical biologist, the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University. ^[1]

Contents

• Education and career
• Recognition
• Books
• References
• External links

Education and career

Allen earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1975 from the College of St. Scholastica, and a master's degree in 1978 and doctorate in 1978 from the University of Tennessee. ^[2] Her dissertation, Applications of Differential Inequalities to Persistence and Extinction Problems for Reaction-Diffusion Systems, was supervised by Thomas G. Hallam. ^{[2] [3]}

After working as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, she joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 1982, and then moved to Texas Tech in 1985. ^[2]

Recognition

In 2015 the Association for Women in Mathematics and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) honored her as their AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer "for outstanding contributions in ordinary differential equations, difference equations and stochastic models, with significant applications in the areas of infectious diseases and ecology". ^[1] In 2016 she became a SIAM Fellow. ^{[4] [5]}

Books

Allen is the author of three books:

• An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology (Pearson, 2003; 2nd ed., 2011) ^[6]
• An Introduction to Mathematical Biology (Prentice Hall, 2007) ^[7]
• Stochastic Population and Epidemic Models: Persistence and Extinction (Springer, 2015).

References

External links

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