Taft Research Seminars

Taft Research Seminar Department of Mathematical Sciences
Shuming Sun, Taft Visiting Fellow (Fall quarter) Professor, Department of Mathematics Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990 Research interests: Fluid mechanics, water wave problems, applied partial differential equations, nonlinear waves Publications: MathSciNet
Lionel Rosier, Taft Visiting Fellow (Winter quarter). Professor, Institut Elie Cartan Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1 (France) Ph.D., Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure de Cachan, 1993 Research interests: Control theory of partial differential equations Publications: MathSciNet
Vilmos Komornik, Taft Visiting Fellow (Spring quarter) Professor, Departement de mathématiques Université Louis Pasteur (France) Ph.D., Et\"ov\"os Lor\'ant University, 1981 Research interests: Control theory of partial differential equations, number theory and mathematical theory of economics Publications: MathSciNet
Bing-Yu Zhang, Convener (Fall quarter) Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Cincinnati Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990 Research interests: Nonlinear dispersive wave equations, nonlinear analysis, harmonic analysis and its applications, control and stabilization of partial differential equations Publications: MathSciNet
Scott Dumas, Convener (Winter quarter) Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Cincinnati Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1988 Research interests: Applied mathematics and dynamical systems, with emphasis on theory and applications of averaging methods for ordinary differential equations, ergodic theory, Hamiltonian perturbation theory, and kinetic theory. Applied work extends into the following areas of physics: condensed matter-particle interactions, beam stability in particle accelerators, celestial mechanics, and ideal gas kinematics. Publications: MathSciNet
Ning Zhong, Convener (Spring quarter) Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Cincinnati Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991 Research interests: Theory of real computing, recursion theory, computability and complexity in analysis and physics Publications: MathSciNet
Anthony Leung Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Cincinnati Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971 Research interests: Partial differential equations: Nonlinear systems of parabolic and elliptic equations, existence, stability, comparison, bifurcation Applications: Population dynamics, ecological and biological models, reactor dynamics, control theory Ordinary differential equations: Asymptotic theory, turning point problems, connection formulas, singular perturbation Publications: MathSciNet
C. David Minda Taft Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Cincinnati Ph. D., University of California San Diego, 1970 Research interests: Geometric function theory and hyperbolic geometry Publication: MathSciNet
Phillip Korman Professor, Mathematical Sciences Univeristy of Cincinnati Ph.D., New York University, 1981 Research interests: Partial differnital equations Publication: MathSciNet
Nageswari Shanmugalingam Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Cincinnati Ph.D, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1999 Research Interests: geometric function theory, potential theory, analysis on metric measure spaces Publications: MathSciNet
Xiaojie Hou Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Cincinnati Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2004 Research interests: Traveling waves of reaction diffusion equations, bifurcations of dynamical systems Publications: MathSciNet
Xuan Hien Nguyen Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Cincinnati Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2006 Research interests: Geometrical analysis, Mean Curvature Flow, Elliptic and parabolic PDEs Publications: Construction of complete embedded self similar surfaces under mean curvature flow, Part I (submitted September, 2006) Construction of complete embedded self similar surfaces under mean curvature flow, Part II (in preparation).
Eugene Kramer Assistant Professor, Raymond Walters College of University of Cincinnati. He is also a part-time doctoral graduate student in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. He is currently working on his thesis project, Initial-boundary-value problems of the Korteweg-de Vries equation on a finite domain, under the supervision of Professor Bing-Yu Zhang.
Muhammad Usman Doctoral graduate student in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. He is currently working on his thesis project, Forced oscillations of the Korteweg-de Vries equation on a finite domain and their stability, under the supervision of Professor Bing-Yu Zhang.
Chris Camfield Doctoral graduate student in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. He is currently working on his thesis project under the supervision of Professor Nageswari Shanmugalingam .