Education:

University of California, Los Angeles, California (UCLA) 1992 - 1996
• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (1996)
• Specialization: Applied Partial Differential Equations
• Dissertation: Variational Inequality Formulation of Dynamic Crack Problems

California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) 1989 - 1992
• B.S. Chemical Physics (1992)
• Specialization: Computational Chemistry

Pasadena City College (PCC) 1986 - 1989

Research Experience:

Post-Doctoral Research: Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Summer 1996-2001
• Researching the extension of the methods developed in the thesis to the case of plane strain stress and the case of bounded media theoretically and numerically. Also developing boundary element methods for pseudo-differential operators.

Doctoral Research: Department of Mathematics, UCLA, 1993 - 1996
• (Advisor: Prof. Gregory Eskin) Researched the application of variational inequalities to dynamic unilateral contact problems involving cracks and punches. Both the solvability and numerical approximation via a boundary element method were considered.

Undergraduate Research: Department of Chemistry, CSULA, Fall 1989 - Summer 1992
• (Advisor: Prof. Joseph Casanova) Computed the geometric and electronic properties of molecules in vacuum and solution using standard programs as well as developing code.

Undergraduate Internship: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Summer 1991
• (Advisor: Dr. William Lester) Investigated the dependence on basis functions of the solution to the particle on a ring problem given by variational Monte-Carlo methods.

Teaching Experience:

California State University, Los Angeles Department of Mathematics Summer 2001 - Present
Courses taught:
• Assistant Professor
  

University of California, Los Angeles Department of Mathematics Fall 1997 - Spring 2001
• Assistant Adjunct Professor for Program in Computing
  Courses taught:
  1. Introductory through Advance C++ Programming Language
  2. Introductory Java Programming Language
  3. Graduate Seminar on Variational Methods for Partial Differential Equations
  4. Graduate Seminar in Linear Elasticity
  5. Graduate Seminar in Nonlinear Functional Analysis with Applications to Partial Differential Equations

University of California, Los Angeles Department of Mathematics Fall 1996 - Summer 1997
• Postdoctoral Position
  Courses taught:
  1. Introduction to Computing
  2. Introductory C++ Programming Language
  3. Matrices and Differential Equations

• Cooper, R. Plane Strain Punch Problem submitted to Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Application (2000)
• Cooper, R. Two Variational Inequality Problems for the Wave Equation in an Half-Space Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Application p.p. 434-460 ( 232) (1999)
• Casanova, J., Cooper, R., Bahe, E., Servis, K. The Neighboring Sulfonium Group in Ester Hydrolysis III Croatica Chemica Acta p.p. 1455-1471 ( 69) (1996).
• Cooper, R., Casanova, J. Two-Dimensional Atomic and Molecular Orbital Displays Using Mathematica Journal of Chemical Education p.p. 487-89 ( 68) (1991).

• Danforth-Compton Doctoral Fellowship, UCLA, Fall 1992 - Spring 1997
• Awarded an NSF Predoctoral Fellowship Fall 1992
• Minority Access to Research Careers Undergraduate Fellowship, CSULA, Fall 1989 - Spring 1992