Eugene C. Gartland, Jr. Department of Mathematical Sciences Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242 Tel: (330) 672-9112 Fax: (330) 672-7824 gartland@math.kent.edu

Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Professor, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program

Chuck Gartland received a B.S. in Engineering Science (1972) and, after two years of military service, an M.S. in Mathematics (1976) and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (1980), all from Purdue University. In 1987, he joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Kent State University, where he is a Professor of Mathematics and an associate member of the Institute for Computational Mathematics. In 1996, he was appointed Professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program at Kent.

Professor Gartland's background is in numerical analysis. His current interests are in the areas of computational applied mathematics, in general, and the numerical modeling (using continuum models) of liquid crystal systems, in particular. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS).

Professor Gartland's Home Page may be found at www.math.kent.edu/~gartland

Current research areas and ALCOM projects

• Device Modeling and Applications
• Numerical Modeling of Liquid Crystal Systems
• Structures and Structural Phase Transitions in Confined Liquid Crystal Systems

Representative Publications

• E.C. Gartland, Jr., "Analysis of a simplified liquid crystal shear flow model," SIAM J. Appl. Math. 54, 317-332 (1994).
• P. Palffy-Muhoray, E.C. Gartland, and J.R. Kelly, "A new configurational transition in inhomogeneous nematics," Liquid Crystals 16, 713-718 (1994).
• T.A. Davis and E.C. Gartland, Jr, "Finite element analysis of the Landau-deGennes minimization problem for liquid crystals," SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 35, 336-362 (1998).
• E.C. Gartland, Jr. and S. Mkaddem, "Instability of radial hedgehog configurations in nematic liquid crystals under Landau-de Gennes free-energy models," Phys. Rev. E 59, 563-567 (1999).
• H. Mori, E.C. Gartland, Jr., J.R. Kelly, P.J. Bos, "Multi-dimensional director modeling using the Q tensor representation in a liquid crystal cell and its application to the Pi Cell with patterned electrodes," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 38, 135-146 (1999).