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Eberly College of Science Mathematics Department

Partial Differential Equations at PSU

Faculty (with a major interest in PDE )

Senior

  • Leonid Berlyand, Professor. PDE, homogenization, Ginzburg-Landau equations.
  • Alberto Bressan, Eberly Chair Professor, an ICM 2002 plenary speaker. Hyperbolic PDEs, control theory, differential games.
  • Diane Henderson, Professor. Fluid mechanics, nonlinear waves.
  • Chun Liu, Professor. PDE, complex fluids, liquid crystals.
  • Victor Nistor, Professor. PDEs on singular spaces, numerical analysis, financial mathematics.

Junior

  • Kris Jenssen, Associate Professor, NSF Career Awardee. Hyperbolic PDEs, gas dynamics.
  • Anna L. Mazzucato, Associate Professor. PDE, fluid mechanics, elasticity, inverse problems.
  • Wen Shen, Associate Professor. PDE, hyperbolic conservation laws, granular flow.

Other faculty members with significant interest in PDEs are: Alex Novikov (homogenization/percolation), Luen-Chau Li (integrable systems, mathematical physics), Andrew Belmonte (complex fluids, fragmentation in solids, pattern formation), Jenny Li (economics), and the group working on numerical analysis: Jinchao Xu, Qiang Du, Ludmil Zikatanov, Xiantao Li, and James Brannick.


Seminar



Courses -- Fall 2011

  • Math 513: Partial Differential Equations I (Alberto Bressan)
  • Math 597C-FA: Continuum Mechanics (Leonid Berlyand)


Courses -- Spring 2012

  • Math 505: Mathematical Fluid Mechanics (Andrew Belmonte)
  • Math 514: Partial Differential Equations II (Alberto Bressan)
  • Math 597D: Multiscale Modeling and Analysis (Qiang Du)
Questions? Send mail to

bressan@math.psu.edu

Last updated: 11/20/2011