UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 27, Page 1
April 11, 1996
Four faculty appointed new Unidel professors
Four members of the University faculty have been appointed to
named professorships in recognition of their distinguished service as
teachers and scholars.
The four newly named Unidel professors are David Colton and Ralph
Kleinman, both in mathematical sciences, and Leslie F. Goldstein and
James K. Oliver, both in political science and international
relations.
"Named professorships are awarded to only a few of the
University's finest faculty members," Provost Mel Schiavelli said,
"This honor indicates the esteem with which these individuals are held
by their peers, both on campus and beyond."
Colton was honored for his international reputation in the area
of multidimensional inverse scattering problems and Kleinman for his
enviable record of external funding, publication and mentorship of
students and colleagues.
Goldstein and Oliver were honored for their distinguished service
as teachers and scholars and their outstanding contributions to the
University and their discipline.
Unidel professorships owe their origin to the Unidel Foundation,
established by Amy E. du Pont (1876-1962), sportswoman and
philanthropist, who bequeathed her estate to the University.
David Colton
Colton specializes in research in the inverse scattering
theory-the problem of determining the physical properties of an
unknown object from its effect on acoustic, elastic or electromagnetic
waves. All of these waves travel through space and when an object is
placed in front of the wave, the wave is deformed or "scattered." How
it is scattered depends on what it has bumped into. Inverse scattering
tries to determine what the object is from observing the deformed
waves.
Applications of the theory can be seen in radar and sonar, in the
use of ultrasound to detect tumors in the body, in elastic waves to
determine the location and shape of flaws in materials and in elastic
or electromagnetic waves to determine the location of mineral deposits
in the Earth.
Recently, in collaboration with Peter Monk, UD professor of
mathematical sciences, Colton has been investigating the use of
inverse scattering theory in detecting leukemia. Because bone marrow
testing for leukemia is expensive, painful and not without danger, the
two hope to develop some form of electromagnetic imaging for detection
of the disease.
Leukemic cells have increased permittivity and significantly
lower conductivity than normal tissue. Using microwave sources and
detectors around the leg and inverse problem solving, Colton and Monk
have used this fact to developed a model to detect leukemia by
determining the values of these parameters in the body. This research
is being sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Colton earned his bachelor's degree from the California Institute
of Technology, his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin
and Ph.D. and D.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh.
Leslie F. Goldstein
Goldstein received both her bachelor's and master's degrees in
political science from the University of Chicago and her doctorate in
government from Cornell University.
She joined the University in 1973 as an assistant professor. She
was promoted to associate professor in 1978 and to professor in 1988.
Goldstein has taught numerous courses on American government,
political theory and on the American judiciary.
Her fields of specialization include American constitutional law,
American political thought, the history of political theory and gender
and law. She served as president-elect and then president and of the
UD Faculty Senate from 1989-1991.
Among her many honors are a fellowship from the UD Center for
Advanced Study, a University of Delaware Research Grant-in-Aid and a
research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Goldstein is author of five books, including Federal Unions and
Sovereignty (in progress), In Defense of the Text: An Introduction to
Constitutional Theory, Contemporary Cases in Women's Rights and The
Constitutional Rights of Women: A Case Study in Law and Social Change.
She edited Feminist Jurisprudence: The Difference Debate and co-
authored Women in the Judicial Process. Additionally, she has written
numerous articles, chapters, review essays and book reviews for
scholarly publications.
She is a former president of the Law and Courts Section of the
American Political Science Association and served on the editorial
board of Polity and Women and Politics. Goldstein is a popular
lecturer and frequent participant in conferences and workshops.
Ralph Kleinman
Kleinman's research is mainly concerned with mathematical
problems associated with the propagation and scattering of acoustic
and electromagnetic waves, including radar cross-section analysis. He
currently is the principal investigator on a Multidisciplinary
Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) grant
from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Director of the Center for the Mathematics of Waves at UD, his
recent research is concerned with problems in inverse scattering and
error estimation. In inverse scattering, the shape, location and
interior makeup of an object is determined by measuring how the object
"scatters" known incident waves, either acoustic, electromagnetic or
elastic. Recent projects have been directed toward locating buried
objects.
His work in error estimation involves deriving mathematical
methods for measuring the error committed when integral equations are
solved numerically, even when the exact solution is unknown and the
direct comparison is impossible.
A doctoral graduate of the Technische Hogeschool Delft (now the
Delft University of Technology) in The Netherlands, Kleinman also
received a bachelor's degree from New York University and a master's
degree from the University of Michigan. He is author and co-author of
more than 100 publications in books and journals. He is a fellow of
the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), past
chairperson of the U.S. Commission B, International Scientific Radio
Union, associate editor of The SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics and
the former associate editor of Inverse Problems and Radio Science.
James K. Oliver
Oliver, director of the International Relations Program, also
holds a joint appointment in the College of Marine Studies. He joined
UD in 1969, after completing his doctorate in international studies at
The American University's School of International Service.
His research and teaching fields include international relations
and organization, American foreign and defense policy and
international relations theory.
In addition to publishing numerous articles in these fields. he
has co-authored three books, The Future of United States Naval Power,
United States Foreign Policy and World Order and Foreign Policy Making
and the American Political System.
He has given papers at the Council on Foreign Relations, the
National Defense University, the Advanced Research Program of the U.S.
Naval War College and the Army War College.
Oliver has traveled in Europe for the U.S. Information Agency and
lectured on American foreign and defense policy. For UD and the
Winterthur Museum, he has traveled in central Europe, the Soviet Union
and Russia.
He has been a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar on European-American
relations and a participant in the State Department's scholar-diplomat
seminar. He has served as a consultant to the Department of State, the
U.S. Information Agency and the Department of the Navy.
At UD, he is a former associate chairperson and chairperson of
the Department of Political Science and International Relations and
has received awards for teaching excellence from both the University
and from the Mortar Board honor society.
-Beth Thomas and Gerry Elter