Short CV

Contact Information

Mail: Department of Mathematics

Lamar University

200 Lucas Building

PO Box 10047

Beaumont, TX 77710

Office: (409) 880-8540

email: jose.vegaguzman@lamar.edu

drvegaguzman@gmail.com

Education

Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics) Arizona State University, Tempe USA

Co-advisors: Sergei K. Suslov and Carlos Castillo-Chavez

Dissertation: Solution Methods for Certain Evolution Equations

M.N.S. (Master in Natural Sciences / Mathematics) Arizona State University, Tempe USA

B.A. (MathEd) University of Puerto Rico, Cayey P.R.

Appointments

Fall 2016--Present Assistant Professor ---- Lamar University, Beaumont, T.X.

Summer 2016 Adjunct Professor ---- Lamar University, Beaumont, T.X.

2013 --- 2016 Postdoc (with Professor M.F. Mahmood) ---- Howard University, Washington, D.C.

2008 --- 2013 - Research Assistant (RA)

- Teacher Assistant (TA)

- Graduate Research Assistant at the Mathematical

and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI) ---- Arizona State University, Tempe, A.Z.

Research Interests

Waves Propagation. Quantum Mechanics.

Nonlinear Optics. Integrability of Nonlinear Evolution Equations

Applications of ODE's and PDE's in Natural Sciences.

Mathematical Modeling.

Graduate Students

  • Iheagwam Success (2018); Thesis Committee Member

  • Enock Onoferi (2019); Oral Exam Committee Member

  • Linda Pham (2020) Thesis Committee Chair

  • Aaron Phillips (2020) Thesis Committee Chair

Some Publications

Vega-Guzman, J.M.; Ullah, M.Z.; Asma, M.; Zhou, Q.; Biswas, A.

Dispersive solitons in magneto-optic waveguides.

Superlattices and Microstructures, 103, 161-170 (2017)

Vega-Guzman, J.M.; Mahmood, M.F.; Zhou, Q.; Triki, H.; Arnous, A.H.; Biswas, A.;

Moshokoa, S.P. & Belic, M.

Solitons in nonlinear directional couplers with optical metamaterials.

Nonlinear Dynamics, 87, 427-458 (2017)

Wang, G.; Kara, A.H.; Fakhar, K.; Vega-Guzman, J.M.; Biswas, A.

Group Analysis, exact solutions and conservation laws of generalized fifth order KdV equation .

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 86, 8-15 (2016)

Xu, Y.; Vega-Guzman, J.M.; Milovic, D.; Mirzazadeh, M.; Eslami, M.; Mahmood, M.F.; Biswas, A; Belic, M.

Bright and exotic solitons in optical metamaterials by semi-inverse variational principle.

J. of Nonlinear Optical Physics Materials, 24(4) 1550042 (2016)

Kryuchkov, S.I.; Suslov, S.; Vega-Guzman, J.M.

The minimum-uncertainty squeezed states for atoms and photons in cavity .

J. of Physics B: Atoms and Molecules in Optical Physics 46, 104007 (2013)

**IOP Select and Highlight of 2013***

Lopez, R.; Suslov, S.; Vega-Guzman, J.M.

On a Hidden Symmetry of Quantum Harmonic Oscillators.

Physica Scripta 19(4), 543-554 (2013)

Lopez, R.; Suslov, S.; Vega-Guzman, J.M.

Reconstructing the Schrodinger Groups.

Physica Scripta 87(3), 038112 (2013).

Suazo, E.; Suslov, S.; Vega-Guzman, J.M.

The Riccati Differential Equation and a Diffusion-type equation.

New York Journal of Mathematics. 17a, 225-244 (2011).

Castro, F.N.; Rubio, I.; Vega, J.M.

Divisibility of exponential sums and solvability of certain equations over finite fields.

The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics. 60(2), 169-181 (2009).

0. On the Integrability aspects of the NLSE with non-Kerr law nonlinearities.