Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. in Mathematics, Princeton Univ., 1991
M.A. in Mathematics, Princeton Univ., 1988
A.B. in Mathematics, Princeton Univ., 1987

Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity 2012-present
Professor of Mathematics, UCLA, 2003-present
Director of Applied Mathematics, UCLA, 2005-present
Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Duke University, 1999-2004
Director, VIGRE program, Duke University 2000-2003
Director, Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke Univ., 1999-2000
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Duke University 1998-9
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Duke University, 1995-1998
Maria Geoppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar, Argonne National Laboratory, 1995-6
L.E. Dickson Instructor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1991-5

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,
Thin Films and Moving Contact Lines,
Fluid Dynamics,
Image Processing,
Swarming dynamics

ONR Graduate Fellowship 1987-91
Bell Labs GRPW Grant 1987
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship 1991-4
Sloan Research Fellowship 1995
Maria Geoppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar-Argonne National Lab. 1995-6
ONR Young Investigator Award 1996
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 1996
Sonia Kovalevsky Prize and Lecture, 2009
SIAM Fellow, 2010
Elected American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010

Click here for a list of publications and preprints with some hypertext links.

The Reese Prosser Memorial Lecture, Dartmouth University Department of Mathematics, Oct. 4, 2012
Plenary Talk, European Science Foundation Conference on Applied Partial Differential Equations in Physics, Biology and Social Sciences: Classical and Modern Perspectives, Barcelona, Sept 2-7, 2012
Plenary Talk, International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics (ICOMAS), University of Memphis, May 16, 2012
Plenary Talk, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, June 26, 2012
Plenary Talk, The 9th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications , July 2, 2012
Cantrell Lectures, Univ. of Georgia Mathematics Department, April 2012
Grosswald Lectures, Temple University Mathematics Department, April 2012
Principal Lecturer, Prarie Analysis Seminar 2011, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University
Plenary talk, AWM 40th Anniversary Conference, ICERM, Brown University, September 18, 2011
Invited one hour presentation, 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Vancouver BC, July 19, 2011
Keynote Talk, 7th East Asian SIAM Meeting, Waseda University, Kitakyushu Campus, Japan, June 29, 2011
Plenary Talk, Australia New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society, Annual Meeting, Adelaide Australia, February 2011
Invited AMS Address, Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA January 2010
Invited Talk, Dynamics Days, Chapel Hill, NC January 2011
Invited Talk, American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA Nov. 2010
Congressional Briefing, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC, Hosted by the American Mathematical Society, Oct. 12, 2010
Allman Family Public Lecture, Southern Methodist University, Sept. 24, 2010
London Taught Course Center, University College London, Lectures on Mathematics of Crime, Sept. 8-9, 2010
Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Distinguised Lecture, Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2, 2010
Plenary Talk, Joint SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMA Meeting on Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations, DSPDEs'10, June 1, 2010 Barcelona, Spain
Brown University, Mathematics Department, Distinguished Lecture Series, March 11-12, 2010
China Lake Distinguished Speakers Colloquium Series, China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center, Ridgecrest, CA, Feb 2, 2010
Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture, SIAM Annual Meeting, Denver, July 6, 2009.
Marschak Colloquium, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Feb. 1 2008
Plenary talk, European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, London, July 1, 2008.
Plenary talk, SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves, Rome, Italy, July 22, 2008
Distinguished Lecture, Industrial Mathematics Institute, Univ. of South Carolina, January 23, 2007
Third Virginia L. Chatelain Memorial Lecture, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, March 27, 2007
UCLA Science Faculty Research Colloquium, March 23, 2006
Plenary talk, SIAM Annual Meeting (Joint with APDE), July 10, 2006, Boston, MA
January 5, 2005 Joint AMS-MAA invited address, Annual meetings of the AMS, MAA, SIAM, Atlanta
October 21, 2002, MPS Distinguished Lecture, National Science Foundation, Washington DC
July 8, 2002, Invited topical lecture, SIAM 50th Anniversary Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
October 27, 2001, Keynote Address, Sonia Kovalevsky High School Math Day, New College, Sarasota, FL
July 13, 2001, NATO Advance Study Institute, Univ. of Montreal, Quebec CANADA Four lectures on thin films.
May 7, 2001, two plenary lectures: "Dynamics of phase boundaries and nonclassical waves", Kirchzarten(Schwarzwald), Germany
Plenary talk, Third SIAM Meeting on Materials Science, 2000
Invited Address, AMS-MAA Joint Meetings, San Antonio, 1999

Click here for a links to all invited talks.

Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, Brown University, 2010-
Scientific Advisory Board, Banff International Research Station, 2009-
Board of Trustees, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 2006-2010
SIAM Council Member, 2006-2008
Editorial Board, Applied Mathematics Letters, 2012-present
Editorial Board SIAM J. Math. Analysis, 2005-present
Editorial Board, SIAM Review, 2004-2010
Editorial Board, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation (SIAM Journal), 2005-present
Editorial Board, Interfaces and Free Boundaries, 2003-present
Edtorial Board, Applied Mathematics Research Express, 2003-present
Editorial Board, Nonlinearity, 2006-present
Editorial Board, Comm. Math. Sci., 2009-present
Editorial Board, M3AS, 2010-present
Editorial Board, Advances in Differential Equations, 2010-present
Editorial Board, J. Nonlinear Science, 2012-present

Liya Zhornitskaya Ph.D. 1999, Duke University (postdoc at Univ. Bonn and Univ. Utah 1999-2003)
Edward Welsh, Ph. D. 2003, Duke University, Currently Assistant Prof. with Tenure at Westfield State College, MA
John Greer, Ph. D. 2003, Duke University, NSF Postdoc, Courant Institute (2004-7), currently employed by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC
Yao-Li Chuang, Ph. D. in Physics, 2006, Duke University, Applied Math postdoc at UC Irvine, 2007, currently postdoc at Univ. of Texas, School of Health Information Sciences, Laboratory of Vittorio Cristini
Alan Gillette, Ph. D. 2006, UCLA, currently Director of Technical Operations, Human Concepts, Inc.
Yuan Huang, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2006, UCLA, currently employed in the defense industry in Los Angeles
Hsiang-Wei Lu, Ph. D. 2007, UCLA Mechanical Engineering, co-advised with CJ Kim, current joint postdoc between MIT and Harvey Mudd.
Benjamin Cook, Ph. D. 2007, UCLA, currently employed by Arete, Washington, DC
Julia Dobrosotskaya, Ph. D. 2009, UCLA, current employed as a postdoc at Univ. Maryland, College Park.
David Hermina Martinez, MSE in EE, 2010, UCLA, currently employed at Raytheon, El Segundo
Yanghong Huang, Ph. D. 2010, UCLA, currently employed as postdoc at Simon Fraser Univ., BC Canada
Yifei Lou, Ph. D. 2010, UCLA, currently employed as postdoc at Georgia Tech
Wangyi Liu, Ph. D. 2011, UCLA, currently employed as postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Jacob Bedrossian, PhD 2011, UCLA, NSF Postdoc Courant Institute
Alexander Chen, Ph. D. 2011, UCLA, Postdoc, SAMSI
Wenhua Gao, Ph. D. 2011, UCLA, Bloomberg LLC
Nancy Rodriguez, Ph. D 2011, UCLA, NSF Postdoc Stanford
Matthew Mata, Ph. D. 2011, UCLA, Postdoc UC Santa Barbara
Rachel Hegemann, PhD 2012, UCLA, Fulbright Fellow at Univ. Muenster
Erik Lewis, Ph. D. 2012, UCLA, Data Scientist, Kontagent
Laura Smith, Ph. D. 2012, UCLA
James von Brecht, PhD 2012, UCLA, postdoc, UCLA

Tijana Kostic, PhD student in Mathematics, advanced to candidacy, UCLA
Ekaterina Merkurjev, PhD student in Mathematics, advanced to candidacy, UCLA
Alexey Stomakhin, Ph. D. student in Mathematics, advanced to candidacy, UCLA
Hui Sun, Ph. D. student in Mathematics, advanced to candidacy, UCLA

Oleg Alexandrov (2006), NASA Ames
Alethea Barbaro (2008-2012), Asst. Prof. tenure track, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Mark Bowen (2000-1), EPSRC postdoctoral fellow, Univ. of Nottingham UK, 2002-5
Christoph Brune (2011-12) Postdoc Univ. Muenster
Shibin Dai (2005-8), Worchester Polytecnic Institute, postdoc
Maria D'Orsogna (2004-7), Assistant Professor tenure track, Cal State Northridge
Marc Droske (2005), Mental Images (German Industry)
Selim Esedoglu (2004), Assoc. Professor with tenure, Univ. of Michigan
Lou Kondic (1997-9), Professor with tenure, NJIT
Zhipu Jin (2006-7), Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA
Ning Ju (2002-2002), Assoc. Professor with tenure, Oklahoma State University
Thomas Laurent (2007-2010), Asst. Prof. tenure track, UC Riverside
Daniel Marthaler (2002-4), Northrop Grumman, Inc.
Mario Micheli (2007-2010), Postdoc in Paris
George Mohler (2008-2010), Asst. Prof. tenure track, Santa Clara Univ.
Andreas Muench (1998-9), Reader (tenured faculty) at Oxford Univ, UK
Nebo Murisic (2007-2010), postdoc at Princeton University
Virginia Pasour (2007-8), Program Officer, Army Research Office, Durham, NC
Martin Short (2007-2011), Adjunct Ass. Prof. at UCLA
Dejan Slepcev (2004-6), Assoc. Professor, tenure, Carnegie-Mellon University
Linda Smolka (2002), Assistant Professor tenure track, Bucknell
Jeanman Sur (2001-3), Samsung, Korea
Chad Topaz (2002-6), Assoc. Prof. with tenure, Macalaster College, Minneapolis, MN
Thomas Ward (2005-8), Asst. Prof. tenure track, North Carolina State University
Todd Wittman (2006-2011), Asst. Prof. tenure track, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.

Sungyon Lee
Aliki Mavromoustaki
Scott McCalla, co-mentored with Martin Short
Jesus Rosado
Yves van Gennip
James von Brecht