Bob Easton
Professor Emeritus
robert.easton@colorado.edu

Room number:听ECOT 215

EDUCATION:听听听听
University of Wisconsin, B.S. June 1963
University of Wisconsin, M.S. January 1965
University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. August 1967
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THESIS ADVISOR:听Charles C. Conley
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THESIS TITLE:听On the existence of invariant sets inside a submanifold convex to a flow.
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POSITIONS HELD:
  • Research Associate, Brown听University,听Division of Applied Mathematics,听1967-1968
  • Assistant Professor, Brown University,听Division of Applied Mathematics,听1968-1972
  • Visiting Assistant Professor,听University of Colorado,听1972-1973
  • Associate Professor,听University of Colorado,听1973-1979
  • Professor,听University of Colorado, 1979-2001
  • Emeritus Professor, University听of Colorado, 2001- Present
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My research interests are in dynamical systems,听, statistics, macro economics, and environmental economics. I explained some of my ideas concerning dynamics in the book Geometric Methods for Discrede Dynamical Systems published by Oxford University Press 1998.

For the past several years I have been studying economics. First I read N. Gregory Mankiw鈥檚 elementary text 鈥淧rinciples of Macroeconomics鈥�. After reading several elementary texts and popular accounts I began to build my own model economy, and eventually lectured about the model at the Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference at the University of Michigan. Carl Simon, who teaches mathematical economics at Michigan was in the audience and he told me what I was doing had already been done, and that I should read some graduate economics texts.

My next step was to attend Martin Boileau鈥檚 graduate course in macroeconomics at the University of Colorado (fall 2005) using David Romer鈥檚 鈥淎dvanced Macroeconomics鈥� text. Next I attended Anna Rubinchik鈥檚 advanced graduate course in microeconomics using 鈥淢icroeconomic Theory鈥� by Mas-Colell, Whinston, and Green. In 2006-2007 I audited courses in international macroeconomics using 鈥淔oundations of International Macroeconomics鈥� by Obstfeld and Rogoff, and a course in international trade by James Markusen using his lecture notes. In 2007-2008 I attended the graduate environmental economics courses taught in the fall by Nick Flores and in the spring by Randy Walsh. I also attended an econometrics class taught by Don Waldman using the text 鈥淓conometric Analysis鈥� by 听W. H. Greene. In the fall 2013 I audited nonparametric statistics taught by Carlos Martins-Filho.

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