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Last published 2024
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William H. Barker

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Assistant Professor

Also affiliated: Dartmouth College (1975); Binghamton University (1968); Bowdoin College (1984–2007)

Faculty Researcher

8 h-index 35 pubs 242 cited

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Biography and Research Information

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William H. Barker's research focuses on the mathematical analysis of differential equations and population dynamics models. His recent work investigates the existence of traveling waves in various models, including the Nicholson Blowflies model with delayed diffusion, nonlocal Fisher–KPP equations with diffusive delay, and Lotka Volterra type models with delayed diffusion and partial quasimonotonicity. He also studies monotone traveling waves in discrete population models with long-term memory.

Barker's publications also extend to theoretical aspects of differential geometry, specifically the rigidity properties of p-biharmonic maps and p-biharmonic submanifolds. In a different area, he has contributed to understanding the behavior of Internet of Things devices through a methodology for characterizing their network behavior. Barker has a citation count of 241 and an h-index of 8 across 35 publications. He has collaborated with researchers such as Nguyễn Văn Minh and Ahlam Alzahrani at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Metrics

  • h-index: 8
  • Publications: 35
  • Citations: 242

Selected Publications

  • Traveling wave solutions for a nonlocal dispersal SIR model with delayed transmission (2026)
    AIMS Mathematics DOI OpenAlex
  • Existence of Traveling Waves of Lotka Volterra Type Models with Delayed Diffusion Term and Partial Quasimonotonicity (2026)
    International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Monotone traveling wave solutions of Mackey–Glass reaction diffusion equation with delayed diffusion term (2025)
    Journal of Applied Analysis 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Existence of bounded asymptotic solutions of autonomous differential equations (2025)
    Journal of Differential Equations 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Traveling waves for nonlocal Fisher–KPP equations with diffusive delay (2025)
    Journal of Evolution Equations 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Existence of Bounded Asymptotic Solutions of Autonomous Differential Equations (2025)
    SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Rigidity properties of p-biharmonic maps and p-biharmonic submanifolds (2024)
    Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Monotone traveling waves in a general discrete model for populations with long term memory (2023)
    Malaya Journal of Matematik 1 citation DOI OpenAlex

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