Dr. Joaquin Carbonara received =Ph.D. from University of California. Currently he is working as a professor at Buffalo State, The State University of New York. As such his current research program includes the development of tools to understand and apply fractals and cellular automata to discrete dynamical systems, fractal analysis, as a discipline parallel to real or complex analysis and development of algorithms to process 3D visual data. He has 11 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of Combinatorial Representation Theory related to Schur Functions, Fractals and Cellular Automata, Biomathematics, Ecology, and Geographical Information Systems. He has worked extensively with undergraduate and pre-college talented math students (as part of University at Buffalo’s Gifted Math Program). For his work with the GMP program at UB, he was awarded by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics the 2005 Sliffe national Award for distinguished mathematics teaching in the middle school. Currently he is the Principal investigator of the NSF CSUMS:URGE to Compute (~$300K), a Buffalo State/UB intense year-round undergraduate research program.Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of the NSF grant SMP: Professional Applied and Computational Mathematics (~$700K) to support the development of Buffalo State’s graduate applied math program. Dr. Carbonara is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Professional Science Masters Association.

Cellular Automata, Biomathematics, Ecology, and Geographical Information Systems