Abridged Resume
Name: William A.
(Art) Kirk
Business Address:
Department of
Mathematics
The University of
Phone: 319-335-0788; fax: 319-335-0627
E-mail: kirk@math.uiowa.edu
HIGHER
EDUCATION
University of
ACADEMIC
POSITIONS
Professor of Mathematics,
Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Iowa, 1967-71
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
RECENT
TEACHING
Course Supervisor 22M:001, 002, 004, 005, 009; Fall 2001; Spring 2002; Fall 2002
22M:025 (Calculus I); Fall, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002; Spring
2002; )
22M:015 (Mathematics for the Biological Sciences); Fall, 1999,
2000; Spring, 2000, 2001
22M:026 (Calculus II); Spring, 1999, 2005
22M:013
(Mathematics for Business); Spring, Fall, 2006
EDITORIAL
BOARDS
Journal of Nonlinear Analysis (Elsevier, Ltd.)
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and
Applications (Elsevier, Ltd.)
Journal of Abstract and Applied Analysis (Hindawi Publishing Corp.)
Journal of Nonlinear
and Convex Anslysis (
Nonlinear Analysis
Forum (Sejong Publisher,
DEPARTMENTAL
COMMITTEES: Graduate Committee
2000-01; Hiring Committee, 2000-2001; Evaluation of Teaching Committee, 1998 - 2000;
Executive Committee 1997 - 2000; Committee to draft peer review guidelines
2000-01; Library Committee, 1996 -
RECENT
INVITED LECTURES
Invited speaker, Conference on Fixed Point Theory and Related
Topics,
Invited speaker, Fourth
World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts,
Invited speaker, Conference on Fixed
Point Theory and Related Topics,
Lecturer, Seminar in Functional Analysis,
Plenary speaker: Second
International Conference on Nonlinear and Convex Analysis,
July - 30 August
2, 2001.
Invited speaker: International
Fixed Point Theory Conference,
Invited speaker: International
Conference on Mathematical Analysis and its Applications,
Plenary speaker:
PUBLICATIONS
Books
K. Goebel and W. A. Kirk, Topics in Metric Fixed Point Theory, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991; Polish Language Edition, Wydawnictwo UMCS, Lublin, 1999.
M. A. Khamsi and W. A. Kirk, An Introduction to Metric Spaces and Fixed Point Theory, Wiley Interscience, Inc., New York, 2001.
W. A. Kirk and Brailey Sims (Editors), Handbook on Metric Fixed Point
Theory, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Recent Research Articles
1. W. A. Kirk and B. Panyanak, Best approximation in R-trees. Num. Funct. Anal. Optimiz 28(2007),
681-190.
2. S. Dhompongsa,
W. A. Kirk, and B. Panyanak, Nonexpansive set-valued
mappings in metric and Banach spaces, J. Nonlinear and Convex Anal. 8(2007), 35-45.
3. A. Kaewcharoen
and W. A. Kirk, Proximinality in geodesic spaces, Abstract
and Applied Analysis, vol. 2006,
Article ID 43591, 10 pages, 2006.
4. W. A. Kirk,
Nonexpansive retracts and minimal invariant sets; in Fixed Point Theory and
its Applications, Yokohama Publishers, 2006, pp. 161-169.
5. A. Kaewcharoen
and W. A. Kirk, Nonexpansive mappings defined on unbounded domains, Fixed
Point Theory and Appl. vol. 2006(2006),
Article ID82080, Pages 1– 3 doi:10.1155/FPTA/2006/82080.
6. Sompong Dhompongsa, W. A. Kirk,
and Brailey Sims, Fixed points of uniformly lipschitzian mappings, Nonlinear Anal. 65(2006), 762-772.
7. R. Espinola and W. A. Kirk,
Fixed point theorems in R-trees with applications to graph theory, Topology
and its Applications 153 (2006), 1046-1055.
8.
W. A. Kirk and Brailey Sims, An ultrafilter
approach to locally almost nonexpansive maps, Nonlinear Anal. Nonlinear Anal. 63(2005), pp. e1241-e1251.
9.
W. A. Kirk, Fixed point theorems in CAT(0) spaces and R-trees,
Fixed Point Theory and Appl. 2004:4(2004),
309-316.
10.
W. A. Kirk, Geodesic geometry and fixed point theory II, in Fixed
Point Theory and its Applications (J. Garcia-Falset,
E. Llorens-Fuster, and B. Sims, eds.), Yokahama Publ. 2004, pp. 113-142.
11. W. A. Kirk, Geodesic geometry and fixed point
theory, in Seminar of Mathematical Analysis (Proceedings, Universities
of Malaga and
12.
W. A. Kirk, Transfinite methods in metric fixed point theory. Abstract and
Applied. Anaysis 2003(5), (2003), 311-324.
13. R. Espinola and W. A. Kirk,
Set valued contractions and fixed points, Nonlinear Anal. 54(2003),
485-494.
14. W. A. Kirk, Fixed points of asymptotic contractions, J.
Math. Anal. Appl. 277(2003),
645-650.
15. R. Espinola and W. A. Kirk
, Fixed points and approximate fixed points in product spaces, Taiwanese
J. Math. 5(2001), 405-416.
16. W. A. Kirk and Linda Marie Saliga,
The Brézis-Browder order principle and extensions of Caristi’s theorem, Nonlinear Anal. 47(2001),62765-2778.
17. W. A. Kirk and Brailey Sims,
Uniform normal structure and related notions, J. Nonlinear and Convex Anal. 2(2001), 129-137.
18. R. Espinola, W. A. Kirk, and
G. López, Nonexpansive retractions in hyperconvex spaces, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 251(2000), 557-570.
19. M. A. Khamsi, W. A. Kirk, and C. Martinez Yañez, Fixed point and selection theorems in hyperconvex spaces, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.128
(2000), 3275-3283.
20. W. A. Kirk, Nonexpansive mappings and asymptotic regularity,
Nonlinear Anal. 40(2000), 323-332.
21. W. A.
Kirk and Linda Marie Saliga, Some results on
existence and approximation in metric fixed point theory, J. Comp. Applied
Math. 113(2000), 141-152.
22. W. A.
Kirk, Brailey Sims, and X. Z. Yuan, The Knaster-Kuratowski
and Mazurkiewicz theory in hyperconvex
metric spaces and some of its applications, Nonlinear Anal. 39(2000),
611-627.