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Current research interests include:

  • 2D materials, quantum materials
  • Localization, waves
  • Data analysis, machine learning, deep learning
  • Signal processing, image processing
  • Fluid dynamics, liquid crystals
  • Neuroscience, chemotaxis, cancer modeling
  • Dynamical systems, climate science

Seminars

Courses, seminars, and working groups provide a collaborative and broad training for graduate students and postdocs.

Faculty

Douglas Arnold

Douglas Arnold

McKnight Presidential Professor

arnold@umn.edu
numerical analysis, differential equations, mechanics, computational relativity.

Jeffrey Calder

Jeffrey Calder

Associate Professor 

jwcalder@umn.edu
partial differential equations, numerical analysis, applied probability, machine learning, image processing and computer vision

Maria-Carme Calderer

Maria-Carme Calderer

Professor

mcc@umn.edu
applied mathematics, partial differential equations, dynamical systems, materials sciences, mathematical biology and soft-matter physics

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Bernardo Cockburn

Distinguished McKnight University Professor

bcockbur@umn.edu
numerical analysis

Jasmine Foo

Jasmine Foo

Northrop Professor

jyfoo@umn.edu
mathematical biology and applied mathematics

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Gregory Handy

Assistant Professor

ghandy@umn.edu
theoretical neuroscience, applied mathematics, stochastic processes, mathematical biology, dynamical systems, and calcium dynamics

Ru-Yu Lai

Ru-Yu Lai

Associate Professor

rylai@umn.edu
inverse problems and partial differential equations

William Leeb

William Leeb

Assistant Professor

wleeb@umn.edu
applied mathematics, computational harmonic analysis, signal and image processing, data analysis

Gilad Lerman

Gilad Lerman

Professor

lerman@umn.edu
computational harmonic analysis, analysis of large data sets and statistical learning, bio-informatics

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Yulong Lu

Assistant Professor

yulonglu@umn.edu
Mathematical foundations of machine learning and data sciences, applied probability and stochastic dynamics, applied analysis and PDEs, Bayesian and computational statistics, inverse problems and uncertainty quantification

Mitch Luskin

Mitchell Luskin

Professor

luskin@umn.edu
numerical analysis, scientific computing, applied mathematics, computational physics

Svitlana Mayboroda

Svitlana Mayboroda

McKnight Presidential Professor and Northrop Professor

svitlana@umn.edu
analysis and partial differential equations

Richard McGehee

Richard McGehee

Professor

mcgehee@umn.edu
dynamical systems, applied mathematics, climate science

Norman Meyers

Norman Meyers

Professor Emeritus

Applied mathematics and functional analysis

Duane Nykamp

Duane Nykamp

Associate Professor

nykamp@umn.edu
applied math, mathematical biology, mathematical neuroscience

Andrew Odlyzko

Andrew Odlyzko

Professor

odlyzko@umn.edu
computational complexity, cryptography, number theory, combinatorics, coding theory, analysis, probability theory, ecommerce, and economics of data networks

Peter Olver

Peter Olver

Professor

olver@umn.edu
Lie groups, differential equations, computer vision, applied mathematics, differential geometry, mathematical physics

Hans Othmer

Hans Othmer

Professor

othmer@umn.edu
applied math, mathematical biology, dynamical systems

Fadil Santosa

Fadil Santosa

Professor Emeritus

santosa@umn.edu
applied mathematics and modelling, optimization, imaging

Arnd Scheel

Arnd Scheel

Professor

scheel@umn.edu
dynamical systems, partial differential equations, applied math

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Daniel Spirn

Professor

spirn@umn.edu
partial differential equations, applied mathematics

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Li Wang

Associate Professor

liwang@umn.edu 
numerical analysis, scientific computing, applied math

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Alex Watson

Assistant Professor

abwatson@umn.edu
Partial differential equations, mathematical physics, numerical analysis, computational physics, data science