Tom DeLillo has been named chair of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics. His primary research interests are in the numerical and theoretical study of conformal maps and in the development of computational methods for inverse problems in acoustics and gravimetry. DeLillo regularly teaches courses in mathematical models, numerical methods, mathematical theory of fluid dynamics and optimization theory. He is also a managing editor of the "Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis." DeLillo came to Wichita State in 1988.
