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RESEARCH
Partial Differential Equations Faculty

Faculty Contact Information

H. Thomas Banks H. Thomas Banks
Professor
Director of CRSC
Co-Director of CQSB

PhD, Purdue University, 1967

Control and parameter estimation for delay and partial differential equations; computational methods; statistical and mathematical methods for inverse problems; modeling in biological and physical problems.

Distinguished University Professor; Drexel Professor; SIAM W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize; IEEE Fellow; Institute of Physics Fellow; SIAM Fellow; NCSU Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor; NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Award; NCSU Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award; IEEE-CSS Control Systems Technology Award; Purdue University Distinguished Alumni Award; Elected Chair, SIAM Board of Trustees (4 terms); ASME Best Paper Award; Amer. Chem. Soc Rubber Division Best Paper Award; Professeur Honoraire, Universite Compeigne, France; AFOSR Research Highlight; Turkish's Governor's Medal of Honor Award; President, NCSU Sigma Xi Society; Editorial Board, 14 journals in Applied Math and Biomath.

Lorena Bociu Lorena Bociu
Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Virginia, 2008

Partial Differential Equations: qualitative and quantitative properties of solutions to systems of PDEs, as well as associated stabilization and controllability issues. Applications of these problems range from nonlinear acoustics to fluid dynamics.

Alina Chertock Alina Chertock
Associate Professor

PhD, Tel-Aviv University, 1999

Numerical methods for time-dependent partial differential equations, hyperbolic conservation laws, degenerate parabolic equations, numerical analysis, scientific computing.

Pierre Gremaud Pierre Gremaud
Professor
SAMSI Deputy Director

PhD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1991

Numerical analysis, partial differential equations; applications to mechanics, fluid dynamics, and material science.

Mark Hoefer Mark Hoefer
Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2006

Physical applied mathematics, partial differential equations, nonlinear waves, dispersive shock waves, waves in magnetic systems and Bose-Einstein condensates, asymptotics, numerical methods.

Kazufumi Ito Kazufumi Ito
Professor

PhD, Washington University, 1981

Optimal control and inverse problems for partial differential equations, control of Navier-Stokes equations, numerical partial differential equations, nonlinear semigroup theory, dynamical systems in Banach spaces, stochastic differential equations and applications, applied functional analysis.

SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (2006)

Xiao-Biao Lin Xiao-Biao Lin
Professor

PhD, Brown University, 1985

Dynamical systems generated by ordinary, delay, and partial differential equations; stability, bifurcation, singular perturbation.

Sharon Lubkin Sharon Lubkin
Professor

PhD, Cornell University, 1992

Modeling biological systems; continuum mechanics of tissues; morphogenesis; mixture models; transport.

Society for Mathematical Biology, Publications Chair

Robert Martin Robert Martin
Professor

PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1970

Nonlinear ordinary differential equations, semi- linear parabolic and elliptic partial differential equations.

NC State Outstanding Teacher Award Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor

Michael Shearer Michael Shearer
Professor

PhD, University of Oxford, 1976

Nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations, systems of conservation laws, shock waves, applications to mechanics.

NC State Outstanding Teacher Award

Semyon Tsynkov Semyon Tsynkov
Professor

PhD, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1991

Numerical analysis of partial differential equations, scientific computation, wave propagation and control; applications to acoustics, electrodynamics, fluids, nonlinear optics.

DSc, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004

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