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CGrADS Site Visit Participant - Richard Tapia
Professional
Preparation
- University of California, Los Angeles, California, B.A. (Mathematics), 1961.
- University of California, Los Angeles, California, M.A. (Mathematics), 1966.
- University of California, Los Angeles, California, Ph.D. (Mathematics), 1967.
Richard Tapia
Noah Harding Professor Rice University
Director, Center for Excellence and Equity in Education, Rice University
Phone: (713)-348-4049
rat@rice.edu
http://www.caam.rice.edu/~rat/
http://dacnet.rice.edu/~caam/Faculty/?FDSID=809
Appointments:
- Adjunct Professor, University of Houston, 2000-present
- Director, Center for Excellence and Equity in Education, Rice University 1999-present
- Cluster Leader, Alliances for Graduate Education in the Professoriate (AGEP), Rice University, 1998-present
- Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 1991-present
- Associate Director of Graduate Studies, O•ce of Graduate Studies, Rice University, 1989-present
- Director of Education and Outreach Programs, Center for Research on Parallel Computation Rice University, 1989-2000
- Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Rice University, 1976-present
- Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 1986-1988
- Adjunct Professor, Texas Institute of Rehabilitation and Research, Baylor College of Medicine, 1978-1983
- Chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rice University, 1978-1983
- Visiting Associate Professor of Operations Research, Stanford University, 1976-1977
- Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Rice University, 1972-1976
- Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Rice University, 1970-1972
- Assistant Professor, Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1968-1970
- Instructor in Mathematics, University of California-Los Angeles, 1967-1968
Synergistic Activities
Developed and directed Spend a Summer with a Scientist, a SMET graduate studies recruitment and retention program for underrepresented minorities and women, 1989. Institutionalized at Rice in 1998 and exported to the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Developed and directed K–12 Teacher Professional Development Programs: The Mathematical and Computational Sciences Awareness Workshop (1989) and GirlTECH (1995) that address the underrepresentation of women and underrepresented minorities in computational sciences.
Chair Advisory Committee for Houston Independent School District’s NSF Urban Systemic Initiative. (1998-present)
Co-developing high school curriculum materials: Introduction to Linear Algebra, (with Tamara Carter and Ann Papakonstantinou), (2000), http://ceee.rice.edu/Books/LA/.
Computational Science: Tools for a Changing World, (with Cassandra McZeal and Cynthia Lanius), http://ceee.rice.edu/Books/CS/.
Related Publications:
- UnderrepresentedMinority Achievement and Course Taking—The Kindergarten-Graduate Continuum, 2000 NISE Forum: Diversity and Equity Issues in Mathematics and Science Education.
- Assessing and Evaluating the Evaluation Tool—The Standardized Test, 1998 NISE Forum: Assessment and the Promotion of Change.
- Computing an Exact Solution in Interior-PointMethods for Linear Programming, ContemporaryMathematics, 252 (1999), 9-29 (with P. Williams and A. El-Bakry).
- The Solution of the Metric STRESS and SSTRESS Problems in Multidimensional Scaling Using Newton’s Method, Computational Statistics, 13 (3) (1998), 369-396 (with A. Kearsley and M. Trosset).
- Perturbation Lemma for Newton’s Method with Application to the SQP Newton Method, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 97( 1) (1998), (with D. Cores).
Other Significant Publications:
- On Effectively Computing the Analytic Center of the Solution Set by Primal-Dual Interior-PointMethods, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 8 (1) (1998), (with M. Gonzalez-Lima and F. Potra).
- A Robust Choice of the Lagrange Multiplier in the SQP Newton Method, Investigacin Operativa, 7 (1,2) (1997), (with D. Cores).
- On the Convergence of the Mizuno-Todd-Ye Algorithm to the Analytic Center of the Solution Set, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 7 (1) (1997), 47-65 (with C. Gonzaga).
- On the Quadratic Convergence of the Simplifed Mizuno-Todd-Ye Algorithm for Linear Programming, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 7( 1) (1997), 66-85 (with C. Gonzaga).
Collaborators:
Current Collaborators: Baine Alexander, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Miguel Argaez, Debora Cores, Amr El-Bakry, Maria Gonzalez-Lima, Terry Millar, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Zeferino Parada, George Phillips, Michael Trosset, and Yin Zhang, Rice University
Thesis Advisees: Miguel Argaez, Richard H. Byrd, Maria Rosa Celis, Jershan Chiang, Debora Cores, Edward Dean, Mahmoud El-Alem, Amr El-Bakry, Mohammedi El-Hallabi, Rodrigo Fontecilla, Naresh Garg, Mark Gockenbach, Maria Gonzalez-Lima, Victor M. Guerra, Kathie L. Hiebert, Anthony Kearsley, Shou- Bai Li, Hector J. Martinez, Mary Anne McCarthy, Gilbert Mayor de Montricher, Jorge Nocedal, Zeferino Parada, Teresa Parks, Marcos Raydan, Catherine Samuelsen, DavidW. Scott, Leticia Velazquez, M. Cristina Villalobos, Donald Williams, Pamela Williams, Cassandra McZeal, and Diane Jamrog.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors: Magnus Hestenes, David A. Sanchez, and Charles B. Tompkins