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Michael ShelleyLilian and George Lyttle Professor of Applied Mathematics; Professor of Mathematics , Neural Science ; Co-Director of the Applied Mathematics LaboratoryPh.D. 1985 (applied mathematics), M.S. 1984 (applied mathematics), Arizona; B.A. 1981 (mathematics), Colorado. Office Address: 251 Mercer Street New York City, NY 10012 Phone: 212-998-3284 Fax: 212-995-4121 Personal Homepage: http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/index.html Email: |
Areas of Research/Interest: Applied mathematics and modeling, fluid dynamics, computational physics and methods, numerical analysis, visual and computational neuroscience, biophysics, biophysical fluid dynamics.
External Affiliations: Board of Editors, Journal of Nonlinear Science; Defense Science Study Group, Institute for Defense Analysis.
Fellowships/Honors: National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1991-1996; National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1989-1991; NASA Computational Fluid Dynamics Fellowship, 1983-1984.
Selected Works:
On the stability of time-harmonic localized states in a disordered medium, with J. Bronski, and D. McLaughlin. J. Statistical Physics. Forthcoming 1996.
Long-time evolution of vortex sheets with surface tension, with T. Hou, and J. Lowengrub. Physics of Fluids A. Forthcoming 1996.
On models of non-Newtonian Hele-Shaw flow, with L. Kondic and P. Palffy-Muhoray. Physical Review E, 54. 1996.
A paraxial model for optical self-focusing in a nematic liquid crystal, with D. McLaughlin, D. Muraki and X. Wang. Physica D, 88. 1995. 55.
An attracting manifold for a viscous topology transition, with R. Goldstein and A. Pesci. Physical Review Letters, 75. 1995. 3665.
