graduate student
7310 Math Sciences
email: bencook at math.ucla.edu
BS physics and math, Duke, 2003
MA math, UCLA, 2004
advisor: Andrea Bertozzi
teaching
Fall 2006 Math 266A: Applied Ordinary Differential Equations, Prof. Russel Caflisch
The discussion section meets Tu 10-11 in MS 5127
Office Hours: M 3-4, W 3-4 in MS 7310
current research
modeling viscous thin films carrying sedimenting particles - slides
theory and computation for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws
past research topics
image registration and estimation of quality of fit
searching algorithms for teams of autonomous vehicles pdf
determining optical properties from planar waveguide resonance modes pdf
other interests:
integrating molecular and continuum descriptions of fluids: microscopic forces at a moving contact line, colliding gas molecules, cell membranes
mathematical models of images