Samuel N. Stechmann

I am a postdoc at UCLA studying applied math and atmospheric science. I am supported by a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship and a NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. My postdoctoral mentors are Bjorn Stevens, David Neelin, and Stan Osher.

Before coming to UCLA, I obtained my Ph.D. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. My research there was also in applied math and atmospheric science (there is a Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science within the Courant Institute.) I was supported by a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, and my Ph.D. thesis advisor is Andrew Majda.

Below are my CV and PDFs of my publications.

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7360 Mathematical Sciences Building
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UCLA Math Department
520 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555

Publications

Majda A J and Stechmann S N, 2009: The skeleton of tropical intraseasonal oscillations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 106, 8417-8422. [ pdf, journal ]
Stechmann S N and Majda A J, 2009: Gravity waves in shear and implications for organized convection. J. Atmos. Sci. 66, 2579-2599. [ pdf, journal ]
Majda A J and Stechmann S N, 2009: A simple dynamical model with features of convective momentum transport. J. Atmos. Sci. 66, 373-392. [ pdf, journal ]
Majda A J and Stechmann S N, 2008: Stochastic models for convective momentum transport. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 105, 17614-17619. [ pdf, journal ]
Stechmann S N, Majda A J and Khouider B, 2008: Nonlinear dynamics of hydrostatic internal gravity waves. Theor. Comput. Fluid Dyn. 22, 407-432. [ pdf, journal ]
Majda A J, Stechmann S N and Khouider B, 2007: Madden-Julian Oscillation analog and intraseasonal variability in a multicloud model above the equator. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 104, 9919-9924. [ pdf, supporting information, journal ]
Stechmann S N and Majda A J, 2006: The structure of precipitation fronts for finite relaxation time. Theor. Comput. Fluid Dyn. 20, 377-404. [ pdf, journal ]
Holm D D, Putkaradze V and Stechmann S N, 2004: Rotating concentric circular peakons. Nonlinearity 17, 2163-2186. [ pdf, journal ]
Jasper A W, Stechmann S N and Truhlar D G, 2002: Fewest-switches with time uncertainty: A modified trajectory surface-hopping algorithm with better accuracy for classically forbidden electronic transitions. J. Chem. Phys. 116, 5424-5431. [ pdf, erratum, journal ]

Last updated August 26, 2009