Dr. Jeffrey Lyons earned his Ph.D. in 2011 from Baylor University, Waco, Texas where he also earned his MS and BS in Mathematics. He has been a visiting Mathematics professor at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, and the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. He was an Assistant and Associate Professor at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His teaching expertise ranges from College Algebra, Pre-calculus, Trigonometry, and Calculus to Applied Engineering Math and Differential equations.
He received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from Texas A&M University System for doing an excellent job in 2011. In addition, Dr. Lyons has received several research awards, including travel grants that have taken him to Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft Myers, FL, UNC-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, and the 10th AIMS Conference, Madrid, Spain.
Some of his publications include “An Application of the Layered Compression-Expansion Fixed Point Theorem to a Fractional Boundary Value Problem” (2019) in the Panamerican Mathematical Journal and “Two Point Fractional Boundary Value Problems with a Fractional Boundary Condition” (2018) in the Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis. Also, some of his presentations include a virtual conference in 2020 for the Recent Advances in Differential and Difference Equations and Their Applications.
Degrees
• Baylor University, Waco, Texas
2011 Ph.D., Mathematics
Dissertation: Boundary Data Smoothness for Solutions of Nonlocal Boundary Value Problems 2009 M.S., Mathematics
• Baylor University, Waco, Texas
2006 B.S., Mathematics
Minor: Chemistry