Education
Ph.D. Mathematics, University of California Santa Barbara, 2014
Biography
Dr. Cynthia Flores is an American Latina recognized nationally as a 2019 Diverse: Issues in Higher Education “Emerging Scholar” whose parents migrated from El Salvador. She grew up in Los Angeles, CA, in the Pico-Union community, working at local outdoor swapmeets every weekend. Inspired by her hard-working family, she received her mathematics BS and MS from California State University Northridge while receiving support and mentorship from the PUMP Program: Preparing Undergraduates through Mentoring for PhDs.
In 2014 she completed a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California Santa Barbara in dispersive partial differential equations. She then joined the faculty at California State University Channel Islands, where she enjoys teaching ordinary and partial differential equations and contributing to the Dolphin community. She is active in supervising undergraduates in research and expanding scholarship in Partial Differential Equations and related applications. Whenever possible, she seeks applications relevant to community partners in Ventura County.
Additionally, she collaborates as a co-Principal Investigator for NSF-funded AGEP (California HSI Alliance for Alliances in Graduate Education and the Professoriate), PUMP (Preparing Undergraduates through Mentoring for PhDs), and HSI-SMART (STEM Model Advancing Research and Teaching) projects. Dr. Flores mindfully works towards work-life balance along with her husband and children. She is inspired by several mentors and advisors and aims to continue their shared work and legacy in creating opportunities for diversity within the mathematics community and mentoring for the professoriate.
Representative Courses Taught
- MATH 350 Ordinary Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
- MATH 450 Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics
- MATH 448 Scientific Computing
Scholarship
Keywords
Partial Differential Equations, well-posedness, Nonlocal Vector Calculus, Mathematics of Materials