Robert C. Sharpley Distinguished Professor Emeritus    Department of Mathematics    University of South Carolina Research Professor    Interdisciplinary Mathematics Institute    University of South Carolina Contact    Office: SUM 206I    Phone: (803) 576-5800    Email: sharpley@math.sc.edu		"sculling on Lake Murray with coxswain Seamus barking cadence"

Education

Experience
 

2009-present	Distinguished Professor Emeritus	University of South Carolina
	Research Professor	Interdisciplinary Mathematics Institute
2010-2013	Interim Director	Computational Research & Cyberinfrastructure Support Initiative,   Office of Research, Univ. of South Carolina
2007-2009	Director	Interdisciplinary Mathematics Institute
1983-2008	Professor	Department of Mathematics, Univ. of South Carolina

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Research

• P. Binev, W. Dahmen, R.A. DeVore, P. Lamby, D. Savu and R. Sharpley, Compressed Sensing and Electron Microscopy, Chapter in "Imaging at the Edge-Nanoscale Imaging in Electron Microscopy," P. Binev, W. Dahmen, T. Vogt (eds), Springer, 2012.
• R.C. Sharpley and V. Vatchev, Analysis of the Intrinsic Mode Functions, Constr. Approx. 24 (2006), 17-47.
• R.J. Prazenica, A.J. Kurdila, R.C. Sharpley, and J. Evers, Multiresolution and Adaptive Path Planning for Maneuver of Micro-Air-Vehicles in Urban Environments, invited paper in the special session on "Vision-Based Control," AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, August 2005.
• R. Sharpley, On the atomic decomposition of H¹ and interpolation, Proceedings of the Amer. Math. Soc. 97(1986), 186-188.
• R.A. DeVore and R.C. Sharpley, "Maximal Functions Measuring Smoothness," Memoirs of Amer. Math. Soc. (Num. 293) 47, Providence, 1984, 115 pp.
• C. Bennett, R. DeVore and R. Sharpley, Weak-L^∞ and BMO, Annals of Mathematics 113 (1981), 601-611.
• Colin Bennett and Robert C. Sharpley, "Interpolation of Operators," Academic Press, New York, 1988, 469 pp.
  
  Full list of Research Publications

• Dynamic Modeling of 3D Urban Terrain, 2007-2013, Army Research Office Multi-University Research Initiative, with participants South Carolina (lead), Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, Princeton, Rice, UC-Irvine, UCLA and Univ. of Texas.   (learn more)
• Computational Research & CyberInfrastructure Support Initiative, 2009-2013, National Science Foundations EPSCoR Track II.   (learn more)
• Collaborative Research: An ATD Proposal: Fast Point Cloud Surface Reconstruction Algorithms, 2009-2012, National Science Foundation & Defense Threat Reduction Agency in collaboration with Texas A&M Univ.
• Technologial Transfer
  • Innovative Micro Air Vehicles & Control Techniques for Urban Environments, 2008-2011, Phase I&II DOD SBIR with Radiance Technologies initiated by Wright Patterson Air Force Research Lab.
  • Software for Generating Geometrically and Topologically Accurate Urban Terrain Models Using Implicit Methods, 2006-2009, Army Research Office Phase I&II STTR with Radiance Technologies.
• Active Vision for Control of Agile Autonomous Flight, 2003-2008, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, with Univ. of Florida (lead), Carnegie Mellon Univ, Univ of South Carolina, Virginia Tech and Eglin Air Force Base.
• Partnership In Computational Science, 1992-1997, Department of Energy, with Texas A&M Univ. (lead), Princeton Univ., State University of New York, Stony Brook, Univ. of Texas, Oak Ridge National Lab, Brookhaven National Lab and Savannah River Lab.   (learn more)
• Industrial Mathematics Initiative, 1992-1995, National Science Foundations EPSCoR, with C. Bennett (lead), R.A. DeVore, R.C. Sharpley, B. Jawerth and B. Dahlberg.   (learn more).
  
  Full list of Funded Research Projects

• Anatomy and Computer Science Depts., University of Wisconsin, 1999, 2001-2003.
• ZeroTree Technologies, Inc (e-Media), Washington, DC, 2001.
• HydroGeoLogic, Inc., Herndon, VA, 1997-1998.
• Institute for Scientific Computation, Texas A&M, 1992.

Teaching

On-line Course Materials

Year Fall Spring Summer 2008     Real Analysis I (Honors)     Modern Geometry 2007 Foundations of Geometry Numerical Linear Algebra 2006 Fourier Analysis Numerical Analysis 2005 Approximation Theory Calculus II 2004 Sabbatical Real Analysis I 2003 Wavelets (New for Fall 2003)   Wavelet & Multiresolution Analysis   2002 Fourier Analysis Elementary Differential Equations     Honors Differential Equations 2001 Real Analysis I   Probability   Computational Science &  Mathematics 2000 Complex Variables Singular Integral Operators, Littlewood-  Paley Theory, & Wavelet Approximation 1999 Maximal Operators, Littlewood- Paley Theory & Wavelets   Honors Vector Calculus   1998 Calculus I   Analysis II   1997 Analysis I   Vector Calculus   1996 Nonlinear Optimization   Analysis I

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