Faculty, Research Associates, Staff

Faculty

Haim Brezis (Doctorat, Paris)
Visiting Distinguished Professor of Mathematics

Research Interests: Nonlinear analysis, partial diferential equations, harmonic maps, liquid crystal theory.

Tel: (732) 445-5706
Busch Campus, Hill Center 604
E-mail: brezis@math.rutgers.edu
Bernard D. Coleman (Ph.D., Yale)
J. W. Gibbs Professor of Thermomechanics
Graduate Director

Research Interests: Continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, nonlinear analysis, DNA topology, materials science.

Tel: (732) 445-5558
Fax (732) 445-0085
Busch Campus, Engineering Building B134
E-mail: bcoleman@stokes.rutgers.edu
Ellis H. Dill (Ph.D., California-Berkeley)
University Professor

Research Interests: Continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, finite element methods.

Tel: (732) 445-4905
Busch Campus, Engineering Building B246
E-mail: dill@jove.rutgers.edu
Richard S. Falk (Ph.D., Cornell)
Professor of Mathematics

Research Interests: Numerical analysis, partial differential equations, elasticity.

Tel: (732) 445-2367
Busch Campus, Hill Center 722
E-mail: falk@numpde.rutgers.edu
Wilma K. Olson (Ph.D., Stanford)
M. I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry

Research Interests: Theoretical studies of nucleic acid structure and properties.

Tel: (732) 445-3993
Fax: (732) 445-5958
Busch Campus, Wright-Riemann Labs A102
E-mail: olson@rutchem.rutgers.edu
Jean E. Taylor (Ph.D., Princeton)
Professor of Mathematics

Research Interests: Geometric measure theory, theory of crystal growth.

Tel: (732) 445-3484
Busch Campus, Hill Center 708
E-mail: taylor@math.rutgers.edu
Irwin Tobias (Ph.D., Princeton)
Professor Emeritus

Research Interests: Continuum models of biological macromolecules, mechanics of supercoiling in DNA.

Tel: (732) 445-2622
Fax: (732) 445-5958
E-mail: tobias@rutchem.rutgers.edu
Michael Vogelius (Ph.D., Maryland)
Professor of Mathematics

Research Interests: Numerical analysis, partial differential equations.

Tel: (732) 445-1327
Busch Campus, Hill Center 716
E-mail: vogelius@marie.rutgers.edu

 
 

Recent Research Associates

David Swigon (Ph.D., Rutgers)
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry

Research Interests: Theoretical mechanics and physics, DNA topology, continuum models of macromolecules.

Tel: (732) 445-4619
Busch Campus, Wright-Rieman Labs A209
E-mail: swigon@jove.rutgers.edu

 
 

Staff

Julia E. Fisher
Program Secretary
Tel: (732) 445-5558
Fax: (732) 445-0085
Busch Campus, Engineering Building B134
E-mail: fisher@stokes.rutgers.edu

 
 

Recent Alumni

Maher Moakher, Ph.D., 1995
Thesis title: Analysis and numerical studies of curvature-driven diffusion
E-mail: moakher@masg1.epfl.ch
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Sergey Asvadurov, Ph.D., 1998
Thesis title: Curvature driven motion of planar curves
E-mail: asvaduro@ridgefield.sdr.slb.com
David Swigon, Ph.D., 1999
Thesis title: Configurations with self-contact in the theory of the elastic rod model for DNA
E-mail: swigon@jove.rutgers.edu
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