Donald Estep Bio Professor Estep is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University . Dr. Estep received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1981 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1987. From 1987-2002, he was on the faculty in the School of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. During 1991-1993, he was a visiting assistant professor in Applied Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Estep moved to Colorado State University in 2000.

Dr. Estep works in numerical analysis, scientific computing, applied analysis, and application of differential equations. His current research is focused on numerical error estimation, uncertainty quantification, model sensitivity analysis, multiscale and operator decomposition methods, and adaptive discretization for multiphysics, multiscale problems. Dr. Estep has strong interdisciplinary interests and his collaborators include engineers, scientists, and statisticians at Colorado State University, the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the TechX Corporation in Boulder, Colorado, and Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Dr. Estep has presented over thirty invited talks at workshops and conferences and over eighty invited seminars and colloquia. During 1993-1995, Dr. Estep was a National Science Foundation International Research Fellow. He was awarded the Computational and Mathematical Methods in Sciences and Engineering Prize for his research in 2005. Currently, Dr. Estep is a principle or co-principle investigator on projects funded by the DOE, NASA, NSF, and the USDA with awards totaling about $21 million dollars (CSU component $11 million dollars) and his research group includes five postdocs and six graduate students.

Dr. Estep is co-author of a graduate text entitled “Computational Differential Equations” (Eriksson, Estep, Hansbo, Johnson; Cambridge, 1996, in second printing) and a research monograph entitled “Estimating the Error of Numerical Solutions of Systems of Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion Equations” (Estep, Larson, Williams; AMS Memoir, 2000) . Dr. Estep also wrote an undergraduate text in analysis called “Practical Analysis in One Variable” (Estep; Springer-Verlag, 2002, German edition 2004) and co-authored a three volume undergraduate series on engineering mathematics called “Applied Mathematics: Body and Soul” (Eriksson, Estep, Johnson; Springer-Verlag, 2003, German edition 2004). Dr. Estep was co-editor of the “ Proceedings of the Georgia Tech Conference on Dynamical Numerical” (Dieci, Estep, vandeVelde; Numerical Algorithms, 1997) and the “ Collected Lectures on the Preservation of Stability under Discretization” , (Estep, Tavener; SIAM, 2002). Dr. Estep is co-developer of an innovative graduate training program in interdisciplinary research in ecology. In 2005, he was awarded the distinction of Outstanding Professor in Graduate Instruction by the graduate students in the Department of Mathematics at Colorado State University. In 2007, Dr. Estep was awarded the College of Natural Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Education and Mentoring.

Professor Estep is the co-director of a NSF IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) program in quantitative ecology called PRIMES (Program for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Ecology, and Statistics). PRIMES involves students, faculty, and scientists from twelve departments at Colorado State University as well as five federal agencies and laboratories. Dr. Estep is also one of the main organizers of FEScUE (Flexible and Extendable Scientific Undergraduate Experience), a new NSF UBM undergraduate interdisciplinary training program in mathematics and biology. Dr. Estep is also director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Statistics, which is a new organization aimed at fostering and supporting interdisciplinary research interactions across campus. Dr. Estep also served on the University Strategic Planning Committee which established the Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), a university-wide organization focused on the design and innovative application of computer, communication, and information systems at Colorado State University , and was the chief author of the ISTeC Research Plan. Subsequently, Dr. Estep served as the first Chair of the Research Advisory Council and as a member of the Executive Committee of ISTeC.  At Georgia Tech, Dr. Estep served as the first Director of Teaching Effectiveness for the School of Mathematics , during which time he designed and coordinated adoption of the School's teaching development and evaluation policy for untenured faculty.

Professor Estep is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is on the editorial board of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. Dr. Estep joined the SIAM Education Committee in 2006. Dr. Estep has organized 16 conferences, minisymposia, and workshops, including two that focused on training graduate students in Interdisciplinary Computational Science and Engineering.