This page was updated on 30 October 2003.

National Science Foundation
Division of Mathematical Sciences

Program Director
Applied Mathematics

Started with NSF: August, 2002

Academic position: Professor of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, co-appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Research interests: nonlinear optical fiber communications, forward and inverse scattering, spectral theory, inverse problems.

Some recent publications:

• M. Klaus and J. K. Shaw, Influence of pulse shape and frequency chirp on stability of optical solitons, Optics Communications 197 (2001) 491-500.
• M. Klaus and J. K. Shaw, Purely imaginary eigenvalues of Zakharov-Shabat systems, Physical Review E 65 (2002), paper 036607, 1-5.
• M. Klaus and J. K. Shaw, On the eigenvalues of Zakharov-Shabat systems, SIAM J. Math Anal. 34 (2003), 759-773.
• I. Jacobs and J. K. Shaw, Optimal dispersion pre-compensation by pulse chirping, Applied Optics 41 (2001), 1057-1062.
• V. Wongpaibool, I. Jacobs and J. K. Shaw, Comments on SSB direct detection scheme in duobinary-carrier suppressed RZ transmission, Electronics Letters 39 (2003), 86-87.
• In press: SIAM-CBMS monograph: Mathematical Principles of Optical Fiber Communications.

E-mail: kshaw@nsf.gov
Phone: 703-292-4859
Fax: 703-292-9032

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