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Brian Wissman serves as Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo within the College of Natural and Health Sciences. His academic leadership spans administrative and teaching roles while maintaining active research in nonlinear systems.
Dr. Wissman earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 2007 after growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His research focuses on Nonlinear Conservation Laws (including gas dynamics and shockwave propagation), Time Series Analysis for chaotic system reconstruction, and Factorization Theory in Monoids. He develops mathematical models to analyze discontinuous solutions in nonlinear systems and explores attractor geometry in chaotic flows.
His publications reveal a strong emphasis on applied mathematical physics and algebraic structures, particularly in shockwave dynamics and numerical monoid factorization. Recent work combines theoretical frameworks with computational approaches to nonlinear phenomena.
- Project NExT Fellow (Sun Dot cohort, 2007)
- Co-Principal Investigator for Pacific Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE) Mathematics REU
As academic administrator, Dr. Wissman established the UH Hilo Putnam competition team in 2011 and regularly supervises directed studies in advanced topics like Nonlinear Conservation Laws and General Relativity. His teaching portfolio includes Ordinary/Partial Differential Equations, Chaos Theory, and Mathematical Physics courses. Outside academia, he coaches youth cross country and plays Ultimate Frisbee at Hilo Bayfront Fields.
