Major Publications:
Several biographies of mathematicians and physicists in Jeffrey A. Bell (Ed.), Industrialization and Imperialism 1800-1914: A Biographical Dictionary.
Hackborn, W. W., O'Neill, M. E., & Ranger, K. B. (1986). The structure of an asymmetric Stokes flow. Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 39: 1-14.
Hackborn, W. W. (1990). Asymmetric Stokes flow between parallel planes due to a rotlet. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 218: 531-546.
Hackborn, W. W. (1991). Separation in a two-dimensional Stokes flow inside an elliptic cylinder. Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 25: 13-22.
Hackborn, W. W. (1993). On a class of Stokes flows inside a corrugated boundary. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 51: 329-341.
Hackborn, W. W., Ulucakli, M. E., & Yuster, T. (1997). A theoretical and experimental study of hyperbolic and degenerate mixing regions in a chaotic Stokes flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 346: 23-48.
Yuster, T. & Hackborn, W. W. (1997). On invariant manifolds attached to oscillating boundaries in Stokes flows. Chaos, 7: 769-776.
Hackborn, W. W. (2000). An analysis of a Stokes flow in an annular region. Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly, 8: 171-183.
Crampin, E. J., Hackborn, W. W., & Maini, P. K. (2002). Pattern Formation in Reaction-Diffusion Models with Nonuniform Domain Growth. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 64: 747-769.
Membership in Academic Societies:
Canadian Mathematical Society
Canadian Association of Applied and Industrial Mathematics
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Association for Bahá’í Studies
Courses Taught:
History of Physics and Mathematics; Complex Variables; Topics in Geometry; Mathematical Ecology and Dynamical Systems