Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

Professor, Department of Mathematics
503 Snow Hall, University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66045
Telephone: (785) 864-5162
Email: bozenna@math.ku.edu

Fall 2009 Class:
Math 865 - Introduction to Stochastic Processes

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Referee NSF, IEEE, Mathematical Reviews, J. Optimization Theory and Appl., Automatica, J. Applied Math. and Stochastic Analysis, Stochastic and Stochastic Reports, J. Math. Systems, Estimation and Control, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Communications in Information and Systems

2009 Member of the International Program Committee of Advances in Control Education, Japan, October, 2009

2008 Member of the International Program Committee of:  American Control Conference, June, Seattle, and Conference on Control and Decision, December, Cancun, Mexico

2008 SIWN International Conference on Industrial Informatics and System Engineering (IISE 2008), at 2008 Systemics and Informatics World Congress (SIWN 2008), Glasgow, UK, 21-24 July, 2008

2008 ICNPAA 2008 Seventh International Conference on Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, 25-27 June, 2008

2008 90th anniversary of academician Ye. A. Barbashin, Belarusian State University and Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences organized the International Conference Dynamical systems: stability, control, optimization, September 29 – October 4, Minsk, Belarus

2007 Member of the KU Honors Program Council   

2006-2008 At large Member of the Friends of the Lied Board of Directors, Lawrence, KS

2006-2007 Chair of the KU Mathematics Outreach Committee 
 
2006-2007 Chair of the KU Mathematics Undergraduate Studies Lower Division

2006-2007 Member of the KU Mathematics Committees: Honors, Mathematics Education, Engineering Liaison, Undergraduate Steering

2007 Organizer and Co-organizer of two Invited Sessions on Risk Mathematics in Insurance and Finance at 2007 Decision and Risk Analysis Conference, Convergence between Finance and Industry, Dallas, TX, May 21-22, 2007
 
2007 Member of the International Program Committee (IPC) for the IEEE Conference on  Decision and Control (CDC), New Orleans, LA, December 2007              
 
2007 Organizer and Chair of two Invited Sessions on Stochastic Systems, Identification and Control, IEEE CDC, New Orleans, LA, December 2007
 
2007 Organizer and Chair of the Special Session: “ Plain Talk on Control for a Wide Range of the Public”, IEEE CDC, New Orleans, LA, December 2007 
 
2007 Member of IPC for IFAC Adaptive and Learning in Control and Signal Processing, Saint Petersburg, Russia  
 
2007 Member of IPC for the 2007 IFAC Large Scale Systems Conf, Gdansk, Poland
 
2007 Theme Track Chair, Control Methods in Finance, American Control Conference, New York, NY, July 11-13, 2007

2007 Organizer and Chair of the Special Session on Control Education and GK-12 Program, American Control Conference, New York, NY, July 12, 2007

2007 Organizer and Chair of the Panel Session on Stochastic Control Methods in Financial Engineering, American Control Conference, New York, NY, July 11, 2007 
 
2006 Member of the Book Series Board, Book Series: World Publishing Company, Risk, Stochastics, Finance and Actuarial Science
 
2006 Member of the Organizing Committee of Great Plains Network/GENI First Workshop, Kansas State University, December 18, 2006 
 
2006 Organizer and Chair of the Invited Session, "Making New Connections with Stochastic Analysis, Stochastic Systems and Control," 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, December 13-15, 2006
 
2006 Co-organizer and Co-chair of the Invited Session on "Risk and Failure-Sensitive Control of Decentralized and Stochastic Systems,” 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, December 13-15, 2006
 
2006 Organizer and Chair of the Panel Session, "Math, Science and Technology in Control Systems Education" - Part III, 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, December 13-15, 2006
 
2006 Organizer and Chair of the Workshop for 600 Middle and High School Students and Teachers on "The Power, Beauty and Excitement of the Cross Boundary Nature of Control,” 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, December 13, 2006
 
2006-2009 Member of the University of Kansas Distinguished Professors Committee

2006-2009 Member of the KU Faculty Senate Research Committee
 
2006 Member of the International Program Committee of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education, Madrid, Spain, June 21-23, 2006
 
2006 Organizer and Chair of the Panel Session, "Math, Science and Technology in Control Systems Education" - Part II, American Automatic Control, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 14-16, 2006
 
2006 Member of the International Program Committee of the 9th IFAC Symposium on Automated System Based on Human Skill and Knowledge, Nancy, France, 22-24 May 2006
 
2005 Member of the International Program Committee of the International Conference on Automatic Control and System Engineering, Cairo, Egypt, 19-21 December 2005
 
2005 Organizer and Chair of the Invited Session, "Recent Advances in Stochastic Systems and Control," 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, ECC'05, Seville, Spain, December 12-15, 2005

2005 Organizer and Chair of the Invited Session, "Stochastic Systems: Estimation, Identification, Control," 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, ECC'05, Seville, Spain, December 12-15, 2005
 
2005 Organizer and Chair of the Session for IEEE CSS Women in Control, “Making Research Breakthroughs and Breaking Glass Ceilings: The Communication Challenges of Women in Higher Education,” 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, ECC'05, Seville, December 12-15, 2005
 
2005 Organizer and Moderator of the Panel Session, "Math, Science and Technology in Control Systems Education," 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, ECC'05, Seville, Spain, December 12-15, 2005
 
2005 Member of the International Program Committee of the Stochastic Calculus and its Applications to Quantitative Finance and Electrical Engineering Symposium, Haskayne School of Business, Calgary, Canada, 24th-27 July, 2005
 
2005 Co-organizer and Chair of the Workshop for Czech High School Students and Teachers at the World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2, 2005
 
2005 Co-organizer and Co-chair of the Session for the IEEE CSS Women in Control on “Life and Careers Internationally, Similarities and Differences”
 
2005 Organizer and Chair of the Workshop for Cyprus Students on "Power, Beauty and Excitement of Control," Joint IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control and Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Limassol, Cyprus, June 27, 2005

2005 Member of the International Program Committee of the International Conference on Control Problems and Applications (Technology, Industry, Economy), Minsk, Republic of Belarus, May, 2005

2005 Member of the International Program Committee of the IEEE Conference on Control, June, Cyprus

2004 Chair of the AWM Travel and Mentoring Grant Selection Committee

2004 Chair of the Educational Committee for American Association of University Women, Lawrence, Kansas

2004 Chair of the Control Education Committee for the American Automatic Control Council

2004 International Program Committee Member for the 7th International Association of Science and Technology for Development International Conference on Control and Applications, May 2005, Cancun, Mexico

2004 Member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Statistics and Systems

2004 Member of the International Program Committee of the 9th Symposium IFAC on "Automated Systems based on Human Skill and Knowledge", 22-24 May 2006, Nancy, France and IFAC INCOM¹06 "Information Control Problems in Manufacturing", 17-19 May 2006, Saint-Etienne, France.

2003- 2004 Program Committee Member of the 9th and 10th IEEE International Conferences on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, Miedzyzdroje, Poland

2003 KU College Caldwell Sabatini Search Committee

2003 Organizer and Chair of the First NSF Workshop for Women in Control on "After Graduation: Women in Control Taking a Leadership Role" December 2003, Maui, Hawaii

2003 Advisor and founder of the KU AWM Student Chapter

2003 Organizer and Chair of the NSF Workshop for 300 Middle and High School Teachers and Students on " Ideas and Technology of Control Systems" December, Maui Hawaii

2003 Program Committee Member of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, December 2003

2003 Program Committee Member of the 2004 American Control Conference, Boston, June 2004

2003 A member of the Selection Committee for Travel, Mentoring and Collaborative Grants for the Association for Women in Mathematics

2002- 2003 Organizer of the Workshop for High School Teachers at the ACC in Denver held in June 2003

2002- 2003 Organizer of the Workshop for High School Students held at the CDC in Hawaii in December 2003

2002-2003 A panelist "A Word of Wisdom" for parents of high school students at KU during Senior Days

2002 Editor of the Proceedings of the Workshop on Stochastic Theory and Control held at the University of Kansas in 2001

2002 Co-chair of the IFAC Control Education Committee

2002 Organizer of the Workshop for High School Students at the CDC in Las Vegas

2002 Chair of IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Control Education

2002 Co-organizer of the session "Teaching in International Culture" at the 2002 Summit on Teaching Excellence, KU, August 2002

2002 Program Committee Member of the Conference on Control and Applications, Glasgow, United Kingdom, September 2002

2002 Co-chair of the IFAC Control Education Committee

2001 Coordinator of the 2001 Mathematics Awareness Month at KU

2001 Organizer of the International Workshop on Stochastic Theory and Control, University of Kansas, October 2001

2001 Member of the Louise Hay Award Selection Committee

2001- 2003 CDC Conference Control Educational Activities Chair

2001 Member of the Organizing Committee of the AMS-SIAM Symposium on Mathematical Finance to be held in 2003

2000-02 Chair of the IEEE/CSS Standing Committee on International Affairs

2000 Organizer and the Chair of the Program Committee of the First NSF National Workshop for High School Teachers of Math and Science

2000 The Leader of the Control Systems Delegation to the People¹s Republic of China

2000- Member of the Editorial Board of the Communications in Information and Systems Journal

2000 Organizer of Two Invited Sessions at the 39th IEEE/CSS CDC

2000 Member of the Program Committee of the 39th CDC

2000 Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Identification

2000- Member of the Program Committee of the 2001 IFAC Workshop on Identification

2000- Member of the KU Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising

2000 Member of the KU Mathematics Department Long Range Planning Committee

2000 Coordinator of the 2000 Mathematics Awareness Month at KU

2000 Chair of the Stochastic Adaptive Control Seminar

2000 Advisor of 8 graduate and 4 honors undergraduate students

1999-00 Chair of the IEEE/CSS Task Force on Globalization

1999 The organizer of the invited session at the IEEE Control Decision Conference, Phoenix, AZ, December 1999

1999 Coordinator of the Mathematics Awareness Month at KU

1999 Chair of the Chair Hiring Committee

1999 Advisor of 10 graduate students and 5 honors undergraduates

1998-99 Vice President of the IEEE-Control System Society (12,000 members)

1998 A member of the Program Committee of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

1998 Coordinator of the Math Awareness Week at KU

1998 The organizer of the invited session at the IEEE Control Decision Conference, Tampa, FL, December 1998

1997-99 SIAM Steering Committee

1997-98 A member of the Program Committee of the

1998 Control and Distributed Parameter and Stochastic Systems, Hangzhou, China, June 1998

1997 Organizer of the Math Awareness Week at KU

1997- Elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society

1997 Co-organizer of the International Conference on Stochastic Control and Nonlinear Filtering, University of Southern California, December 1997

1997 Advisor of 6 Undergraduate Summer Research Projects

1997 The organizer of the invited session at the IEEE Control Decision Conference, San Diego, CA, December 1997

1996 The organizer of the special session of the International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems Conference in St. Louis, June 1996

1996 Organizer of the Math Awareness Week at KU

1996 Local organizer of the 1996 SIAM Annual Meeting in Kansas City

1996 The organizer of the invited session at the IEEE Control Decision Conference, Kobe, Japan, December 1996

1996 A member of the Program Committee of the 1998 American Control Conference

1995-96 A member of AMS-SIAM 1996 Summer Symposium Organizing Committee

1995-96 A member of the Organizing Committee of the 1996 SIAM Annual Meeting

1995-96 A member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Stochastic Differential Equations, Budapest, Hungary, August 1996

1995 Chair of the Program Committee of the Third SIAM Conference on Control held in St. Louis, April 1995

1995- Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Editorial Board

1995- Associate Editor of the Journal of Intelligent Fuzzy Systems

1995- A member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Committee on the Financial Aid

1995 A member of the SIAM Prize Committee

1995 The organizer of 2 seminars on Math Technology in the Higher Education, Zakopane, Poland, September 1995

1995 The organizer of the Math Technology Workshop for the Sunset Hill Elementary School students, KU, December 1995

1994-98 Chair of the IEEE Standing Committee on "Women in Control"

1994-97 A member of the SIAM Master Program

1994-96 Member of the Organizing Committee of the 1996 International Conference on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems

1994-95 Member of the Program Committee of the 1995 Automatic Control Conference in Seattle, Washington, June 1995

1994-95 Member of the Program Committee of the 1995 International Conference on Control and Information in Hong Kong, July 1995

1994- Editor of the column "Women in Control" in the IEEE Control and Systems Magazine

1994 Organizer of two Math Workshops for Sunset Hill Elementary Students, KU

1994- A member of the IEEE Conference Editorial Board

1994 A member of Ph.D. examination committee for Economics Department, Business School and Engineering School

1993-98 Chair of the IEEE Standing Committee on Assistance to At-Risk Scientists and Engineers

1993-95 Member of the Organizing Committee of SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory Meeting held in St. Louis, April 1995

1993-94 Program Director of the Society for SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory

1993-94 Member of the Organizing Committee of 1994 Annual Meeting of SIAM in San Diego, July 1994

1993-94 Member of the Program Committee of the 33rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida, December 1994

1993-94 College Faculty Election Committee 1993 Organizer of two Math Workshops for Sunset Hill Elementary Students, KU

1993- University General Research Fund Committee

1992-95 College Chairpersons Review Committee

1992-93 Organizer of the Special Session at four International Conferences

1992 Organizer of the Math Workshop for Sunset Hill Elementary Students, KU

1992 Co-Editor of Proc. of International Workshop "Stochastic Theory-Adaptive Control," Lawrence, KS, September, 1991

1992- Advisor of the Undergraduate Student's Project

1992- Associate Editor of the Ulam Quarterly 1991-95 Department's Hiring Committee

1991-94 College Graduate Studies Committee

1991 Co-Organizer of International Workshop on "Stochastic Theory-Adaptive Control" at KU sponsored by NSF and KU

1991- Advisor of Ph.D. students

1991- Advisor of Master's Research Components

1990-96 Evaluation of Teaching Committee - KU (Math Department)

1990-95 Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

1990-91 Appointed Member of the Board of Governors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Control Systems Society

1990- Chair of the Stochastic Adaptive Control Seminar at KU 1989- Polish Studies Committee - KU

1989- Educational Committee - KU (Math Department)

1988-90 Co-organizer of the Special Session at the IEEE Conference on Control and Decision

1988- USA Coordinator of Polish Mathematicians

1980-83 Director of the Center of Applied Mathematics of the Polish Mathematical Society

1979 Organizer of the National Conference on Education of Mathematics at Economic Universities

1973-80 President of the Warsaw School of Economics of the Polish Mathematical Society and Vice President of Warsaw Chapter of the Polish Mathematical Society

Updated 05/2009