Award Abstract # 0206028
Center for Systems Science Research

NSF Org: EES
Div. of Equity for Excellence in STEM
Recipient: TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: September 10, 2002
Latest Amendment Date: July 28, 2006
Award Number: 0206028
Award Instrument: Cooperative Agreement
Program Manager: Patrick F. Mensah
EES
 Div. of Equity for Excellence in STEM
EDU
 Directorate for STEM Education
Start Date: September 1, 2002
End Date: August 31, 2007 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $4,000,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $4,146,582.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2002 = $800,000.00
FY 2003 = $800,000.00

FY 2004 = $824,030.00

FY 2005 = $1,722,552.00
History of Investigator:
  • Leehyun Keel (Principal Investigator)
    lkeel@tnstate.edu
  • Joel Eaton (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Sivapragasam Sathananthan (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Yong Tao (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Tennessee State University
3500 JOHN A MERRITT BLVD
NASHVILLE
TN  US  37209-1561
(615)963-7631
Sponsor Congressional District: 05
Primary Place of Performance: Tennessee State University
3500 JOHN A MERRITT BLVD
NASHVILLE
TN  US  37209-1561
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
05
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): N63ZMY7UETA3
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): AGEP,
Hist Black Colleges and Univ,
Centers for Rsch Excell in S&T
Primary Program Source: 04000203DB NSF Education & Human Resource
app-0403 

04000405DB NSF Education & Human Resource

app-0405 

app-0406 
Program Reference Code(s): 7204, 9178, 9179, SMET
Program Element Code(s): 151500, 159400, 913100
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.076

ABSTRACT



During the last four years, Tennessee State University has established an interdisciplinary NSF CREST center, the Center for Systems Science Research (CSSR), which consists of components from mathematics, physics/astronomy, and electrical/mechanical engineering. Research niches have been firmly established in each of these areas and, at present, the existing research base has matured enough to permit continued significant contributions to the body of scientific knowledge. These science/engineering niches form the four research thrust components of this renewal proposal: (1) optimal and robust control (electrical engineering), (2) modeling of complex astrophysical systems (physics/astronomy), (3) large-scale stochastic dynamic systems (mathematics), and (4) modeling of complex flows (mechanical engineering).

These four research components from diverse science/engineering disciplines seek to understand the behavior of complex physical systems by utilizing mathematical models. CSSR researchers in each thrust component have worked independently and side by side for the last four years, and fruitful collaborative interactions have resulted in cross discipline approaches to problem solving.

The Center for Systems Science Research has as its primary goals (1) the establishment of a permanent research base at Tennessee State University which produces new knowledge and quality, publishable, peer-reviewed research relevant to NSF research goals and (2) the enhancement of participation and substantial involvement of minority students and faculty in SMET research areas.

In reference to Goal 1, the TSU CREST Center has published 171 articles, 139 of these in refereed journals or conference proceedings, during its first four years. Each thrust area has produced significant new knowledge, e.g. the control systems group introduced the concept of controller "fragility" which resulted in a special session at the 1999 American Control Conference, the astrophysics group confirmed the existence of extra solar planets by discovering the first planet in the star system HD 20945,the applied math group has expanded the probabilistic analysis and computational methods for large-scale stochastic dynamic systems, and the CFD groups collaboration with the NSF ERC at Mississippi State University has resulted in a model which predicts the effects of icing on the aerodynamics and structural characteristics of aircraft.

During the same time period, the pursuit of Goal 2 has resulted in the support and participation of 35 undergraduate and 7 graduate African-American students on average per year. During the past four years, support for both graduates and undergraduates has averaged over $200,000 per year for various combinations of tuition, fees, room and board, and stipends, and this same level of support is requested for the renewal period. The CREST Student Program Coordinator matches student participants with CREST researchers. Students present their work at the TSU University Wide Research Symposium and at the NSF/NASA/TSU Student Research Symposium. Students have also been co-authors with CREST researchers on journal/conference papers.

Thus far eight underrepresented minority students have received their MS degrees, five of whom are now pursuing a Ph.D. In the Fall Semester, 2001 the university began enrollment of students in the newly established Ph.D. program in Computer Information Systems Engineering which is housed in the College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science. The NSF HRD CREST program was the catalyst that "fast-tracked" this initiative through the university, the Tennessee Board of Regents, and the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Aarum-Ulvas, V; Henry, GW "Modelling the colour-brightness relation of chromospherically active stars" ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN , v.326 , 2005 , p.292 View record at Web of Science 10.1002/asna.20041039
Abbott, B; Abbott, R; Adhikari, R; Ageev, A; Agresti, J; Ajith, P; Allen, B; Allen, J; Amin, R; Anderson, SB; Anderson, WG; Araya, M; Armandula, H; Ashley, M; Asiri, F; Aufmuth, P; Aulbert, C; Babak, S; Balasubramanian, R; Ballmer, S; Barish, BC; Barker, "Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries" PHYSICAL REVIEW D , v.73 , 2006 View record at Web of Science 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.10200
Abbott, B; Abbott, R; Adhikari, R; Ageev, A; Agresti, J; Ajith, P; Allen, B; Allen, J; Amin, R; Anderson, SB; Anderson, WG; Araya, M; Armandula, H; Ashley, M; Asiri, F; Aufmuth, P; Aulbert, C; Babak, S; Balasubramanian, R; Ballmer, S; Barish, BC; Barker, "Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data" PHYSICAL REVIEW D , v.73 , 2006 View record at Web of Science 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.06200
Abbott, B; Abbott, R; Adhikari, R; Agresti, J; Ajith, P; Allen, B; Amin, R; Anderson, SB; Anderson, WG; Araya, M; Armandula, H; Ashley, M; Aston, S; Aulbert, C; Babak, S; Ballmer, S; Barish, BC; Barker, C; Barker, D; Barr, B; Barriga, P; Barton, MA; Bayer "Searching for a stochastic background of gravitational waves with the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory" ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL , v.659 , 2007 , p.918 View record at Web of Science
Adetona, O; Sathananthan, S; Keel, LH "Robust adaptive control of nonaffine nonlinear plants with small input signal changes" IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS , v.15 , 2004 , p.408 View record at Web of Science 10.1109/TNN.2004.82442
Anabtawi, MJ; Sathananthan, S "Stability and convergence via Lyapunov-like functionals of Stochastic parabolic partial differential equations" APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION , v.157 , 2004 , p.201 View record at Web of Science 10.1016/j.amc.2003.08.03
Anabtawi, MJ; Sathananthan, S "Stochastic hybrid parabolic systems under jump Markovian perturbations-I: Convergence and stability via Lyapunov functionals" DYNAMIC SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS , v.15 , 2006 , p.269 View record at Web of Science
Anderson, RH; Henry, GW "From the Editors" CARDIOLOGY IN THE YOUNG , v.16 , 2006 , p.415 View record at Web of Science 10.1017/S104795110600069
Berdyugina, SV; Henry, GW "Butterfly diagram and activity cycles in HR 1099" ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL , v.659 , 2007 , p.L157 View record at Web of Science
Biazzo, K; Frasca, A; Henry, GW; Catalano, S; Marilli, E "Photospheric and chromospheric active regions in four young solar-type stars" ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL , v.656 , 2007 , p.474 View record at Web of Science
Butler, RP; Marcy, GW; Vogt, SS; Fischer, DA; Henry, GW; Laughlin, G; Wright, JT "Seven new Keck planets orbiting G and K dwarfs" ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL , v.582 , 2003 , p.455 View record at Web of Science
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