Bob Easton
Professor Emeritus

Room number:ECOT 215

EDUCATION:
University of Wisconsin, B.S. June 1963
University of Wisconsin, M.S. January 1965
University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. August 1967
THESIS ADVISOR:Charles C. Conley
THESIS TITLE:On the existence of invariant sets inside a submanifold convex to a flow.
POSITIONS HELD:
  • Research Associate, BrownUniversity,Division of Applied Mathematics,1967-1968
  • Assistant Professor, Brown University,Division of Applied Mathematics,1968-1972
  • Visiting Assistant Professor,University of babyֱapp,1972-1973
  • Associate Professor,University of babyֱapp,1973-1979
  • Professor,University of babyֱapp, 1979-2001
  • Emeritus Professor, Universityof babyֱapp, 2001- Present
My research interests are in dynamical systems,, statistics, macro babyֱapps, and environmental babyֱapps. I explained some of my ideas concerning dynamics in the book Geometric Methods for Discrede Dynamical Systems published by Oxford University Press 1998.

For the past several years I have been studying babyֱapps. First I read N. Gregory Mankiw’s elementary text “Principles of Macrobabyֱapps”. After reading several elementary texts and popular accounts I began to build my own model economy, and eventually lectured about the model at the Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference at the University of Michigan. Carl Simon, who teaches mathematical babyֱapps at Michigan was in the audience and he told me what I was doing had already been done, and that I should read some graduate babyֱapps texts.

My next step was to attend Martin Boileau’s graduate course in macrobabyֱapps at the University of babyֱapp (fall 2005) using David Romer’s “Advanced Macrobabyֱapps” text. Next I attended Anna Rubinchik’s advanced graduate course in microbabyֱapps using “Microbabyֱapp Theory” by Mas-Colell, Whinston, and Green. In 2006-2007 I audited courses in international macrobabyֱapps using “Foundations of International Macrobabyֱapps” by Obstfeld and Rogoff, and a course in international trade by James Markusen using his lecture notes. In 2007-2008 I attended the graduate environmental babyֱapps courses taught in the fall by Nick Flores and in the spring by Randy Walsh. I also attended an econometrics class taught by Don Waldman using the text “Econometric Analysis” by W. H. Greene. In the fall 2013 I audited nonparametric statistics taught by Carlos Martins-Filho.