Konstantina Trivisa - homepage
Konstantina Trivisa
Professor
College Park, MD 20742-4015
Department of Mathematics
Email Address:
trivisa@math.umd.edu
Office: Room 3307 (Math Building)
Office Phone: (301) 405-6865
Office Fax: (301) 314-0827
http://www.math.umd.edu/~trivisa
Education:
BROWN UNIVERSITY
- Ph.D.
in Applied Mathematics, May 1996.
- M.S.
in Applied Mathematics, May 1992.
UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS, GREECE
- B.Sc.
in Mathematics, July 1990.
Research Area:
- Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations - Applied Mathematics
Research Interests:
- Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws
- Models of Compressible Fluids
- Variational Problems - Phase Transitions
- Applications to Materials Science and Fluid Dynamics
Academic Positions:
- UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Professor (2007 - present)
Director of Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation
Program (2007 - present)
Associate Professor (2004 - 2007)
Assistant Professor (2000 - 2004)
- NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (1997 - 2000)
Ralph Boas Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (1996 - 1997)
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Nonlinear
Analysis
Awards - Honors:
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
(
PECASE )
Faculty Early Career Development Award (
CAREER )
(
2003 ) ( National
Science Foundation)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow ( 2001) (
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation )
NSF Research Grant
DMS-0072496 2000-2003 (Principal Investigator)
NSF Research Grant INT-9987378 2000-2003 (US-China cooperative
research)
Stella Dafermos Award, Brown University, 1994
Teaching:
MATH 424: Introduction to the Mathematics of Finance
- Fall 2007
MATH 462: Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers
- Spring 2006
MATH 405: Linear Algebra
- Spring 2006
MATH 674: Partial Differential Equations II
- Spring 2005
MATH 673: Partial Differential Equations I
- Fall 2004
MATH 424: Introduction to the Mathematics of Finance
- Fall 2002-04, Spring 2002
MATH 630: Real Analysis I
- Spring 2004
MATH 461: Linear Algebra for
Scientists and Engineers - Fall 2003
MATH 246:
Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers
- Fall 2002
Office Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 9:00 - 10:15am.
Conferences Organization:
BIRS2006-Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws and Related Problems
Analysis and Computation of Shocks Blow up and Regularity