Harbir Lamba Associate Professor Office: Science & Technology Building I, Room 239 Phone: (703) 993-1489 Fax: (703) 993-1491 E-mail: hlamba@gmu.edu Personal Homepage: math.gmu.edu/~harbir

Education

• Ph.D., 1994, University of Bristol, Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems

• M.A., 1990, Cambridge University, Mathematics

• B.A., 1988, Cambridge University, Mathematics
  

Research

• Numerical Solution to ODEs and SDEs

• Dynamical Systems

• Mathematical Models in Economics
  

Selected Publications

• An Adaptive Timestepping Algorithm for Stochastic Differential Equations, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. {\bf 161} pp. 417-430 (2003)

• Frustration Minimization, Hysteresis and the El Farol Problem, with R. Cross, M. Grinfeld and A. Pittock.  In "Singular Perturbations and Hysteresis", eds M.P. Mortell, R.E. O'Malley Jr., A. Pokrovskii and V. Sobolev.  SIAM 2005.  pp. 61-72.

• A Threshold Model of Investor Psychology, with R. Cross, M. Grinfeld and T. Seaman.  Physica A {\bf 354} (2005) pp 463-478.

• The Effective Stability of Adaptive Timestepping ODE Solvers, To Appear in SIAM Journal Num. Analysis.
  

Professional Awards and Invitations

• Visiting researcher at the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, during Fall 2001
  

Students

• Working with two graduate students, Ben Crain and Tim Seaman