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Georg Dolzmann

Mathematics Department, University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4015

Office: 4101 Mathematics Building
Phone: ++1-301-405-5144
Fax: ++1-301-314-0827

email: dolzmann@math.umd.edu

Short vita

Full Professor, University of Maryland (since 2006)
Associate Professor, University of Maryland (2003-2006)
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland (2000-2003)
Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig (1997-2000)
Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (1998/99)
Postdoctoral Associate, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (1995/96)
Postdoctoral Associate, University Freiburg (1994/95)
Postdoctoral Associate, University Bonn (1992/94)
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University Bonn (1992)
Some pictures: My home town Bonn, the former capital of West Germany and the birth place of L. van Beethoven. Click here for a view from the top of the new city hall.
Teaching: AMSC466/CMSC466 Introduction to Numerical Analysis I; Math648C Selected Topics in Analysis: Calculus of Variations
Research Interaction Teams (RIT): RIT in Liquid Crystals and Biomembranes
Courses taught in past terms (these pages are not maintained and may contain broken links): Math 140 - Calculus I ( Fall 2002); Math 241 - Calculus III (Fall 2001, Spring 2002); Math 246 - Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers (Fall 2003); Math 461 - Linear Algebra for Scientists and Engineers ( Spring 2001 ); Math 462 - Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers ( Fall 2001, Spring 2004, Spring 2005 ); AMSC 466/CMSC 466 - Introduction to Numerical Analysis I (Fall 2003 ); AMSC 612 - Numerical Methods in Partial Differential Equations ( Spring 2004 ); Math648C - Selected Topics in Analysis: Calculus of Variations (Fall 2005); AMSC 667 - Numerical Analysis II ( Spring 2005 ); Math 673/AMSC 673 - Partial Differential Equations I ( Fall 2002 ); Math 674/AMSC 674 - Partial Differential Equations II ( Spring 2003 )

Minicourse on the Calculus of Variations

Minicourse on Nonconvex Variational Problems and Applications, University of Utah, May 16-27, 2005; RIT in Numerical Analysis; RIT in Materials Science
Monography: Variational Methods for Crystalline Microstructure - Analysis and Computation, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1803 (2003)
Selected publications: Liquid-like response of shape-memory materials, (with B. Kirchheim), C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 336 (2003), 441-446; Semi-soft elasticity and director reorientation in stretched sheets of nematic elastomers (with A. DeSimone and S. Conti), PRE 66 (2002), #061710; Macroscopic response of nematic elastomers via relaxation of a class of SO(3)-invariant energies , (with A. DeSimone), Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 161 (2002), 181 - 204; Soft elastic response of stretched sheets of nematic elastomers: a numerical study , (with A. DeSimone, S. Conti), J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 50 (2002), 1431-1451; Conditions for equality of hulls in the calculus of variations (with B. Kirchheim, J. Kristensen), Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 154 (2000), 93-100; Relaxed constitutive relations for phase transforming materials (with K. Bhattacharya), J. Mech. Phys. Solids 48 (2000), 1493-1517; Uniqueness and maximal regularity for nonlinear elliptic systems of n-Laplace type with measure valued right hand side (with N. Hungerbühler, S. Müller), J. reine und angew. Math. 520 (2000), 1-35; The two-well problem in three dimensions (with B. Kirchheim, S. Müller, V. Sverák), Calc. Var. and PDE 10 (2000), 21-40

Last updated: January 20, 2004