Raghib M. Abu-Saris

Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics.
E-mail: saris@math.birzeit.edu
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A., 1994.
M.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A., 1990.
B.S., Mathematics, Yarmouk University, Jordan, 1988.
Ph.D. Dissertation: ''Filtering of a Wiener-Poisson driven stochastic processes''.

Professional Membership

• American Mathematical Society (1989 - 1994).
• SIAM (1994-up to day).

Fields of Interest:

• Difference and Differential Equations.
• Numerical Analysis and Symbolic Computations.
• Optimization and Optimal Control.

Publications:

• R. M. Abu-Saris and F. B. Hanson, Computational suboptimal filter for a Weiner-Poisson driven stochastic process, Dynamic and Control, Kluwer, 1997.
• R. M. Abu-Saris and F. Allan, Periodic and Nonperiodic Behavior of the Solutions of the Difference Equation x_n+1=max{x_n²,A}/x_nx_n-1, Proceeding of the second nternational conference on diffference equations and Applications, Kluwer, 1997.
• R. M. Abu-Saris, On the Periodicity of the Difference Equation x_n+1= alpha |x_n|+ beta |x_n-1|, J. Difference Equations and Applications, 1998
• R. M. Abu-Saris, Characterization of rational periodic sequences, to appear.
• R. M. Abu-Saris, A Note on periodic rational sequences involving piecewise power function, to appear.