ROBERT V. KOHN

Professor of Mathematics; Chair of the Committee on Mathematics in Finance (2003-2006 and 2009-2011); Instructor since 1998

$ROBERT V. KOHN$

Bob received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979. His research interests include materials science, nonlinear partial differential equations, inverse problems and optimization as well as finance.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

On the Bending and Twisting of Rods with Misfit (January 2018)

Robert Kohn and Ethan O’Brien

Coarsening of Folds in Hanging Drapes. (May 2017)

Robert Kohn and Peter Bella

Wrinkling of a Thin Circular Sheet Bonded to a Spherical Substrate. (May 2017)

Robert Kohn and Peter Bella

Optimal Fine-Scale Structures in Compliance Minimization for a Shear Load (August 2016)

Robert Kohn and Benedikt Wirth

Blister Patterns and Energy Minimization in Compressed Thin Films on Compliant Substrates (March 2015)

Robert Kohn and Jacob Bedrossian

Metric-Induced Wrinkling of a Thin Elastic Sheet (December 2014)

Robert Kohn and Peter Bella

Wrinkles as the Result of Compressive Stresses in an Annular Thin Film (May 2014)

Robert Kohn and Peter Bella

A Variational Perspective on Cloaking by Anomalous Localized Resonance (May 2014)

Robert Kohn and et al

Energy Scaling Laws for Conically Constrained Thin Elastic Sheets (October 2013)

Robert Kohn and et. al.,

Nucleation Barriers for the Cubic-to-Tetragonal Phase Transformation (June 2013)

Robert Kohn, Felix Otto and Hans Knüpfer

Homogenization and Effective Moduli of Materials and Media (December 2012)

Robert Kohn and et. al

Topics in the Mathematical Modelling of Composite Materials (December 2012)

Robert Kohn and Andrej Cherkaev

The Evolution of a Crystal Surface: Analysis of a One-Dimensional Step Train Connecting Two Facets in the ADL Regime (October 2011)

Robert Kohn and et.al

The String Method as a Dynamical System (April 2011)

Robert Kohn, Maria Cameron and Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Cloaking via Change of Variables for the Helmholtz Equation (August 2010)

Robert Kohn and etl.al

A Deterministic-Control-based Approach to Fully Nonlinear Parabolic and Elliptic Equations (2010)

Robert Kohn and Sylvia Serfaty

Cloaking via Change of Variables in Electric Impedance Tomography (January 2008)

Robert Kohn, Haiping Shen, Michael Vogelius, and M.I. Weinstein

Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and their Applications (July 1, 2005)

Robert Kohn, Giuseppe Buttazzo, and et al

Symmetry, Texture and the Recoverable Strain of Shape-Memory Polycrystals (February 1996)

Robert Kohn and Kaushik Bhattacharya

Surface Energy and Microstructure in Coherent Phase Transitions (April 1994)

Robert Kohn and Stefan Müller

Optimal Design for Minimum Weight and Compliance in Plane Stress (1993)

Robert Kohn and G. Allaire

Branching of Twins Near an Austenite – Twinned-Martensite Interface (November 1992)

Robert Kohn and Stefan Müller

The Relaxation of a Double-Well Energy (September 1991)

Robert Kohn

Motion by mean Curvature as the Singular Limit of Ginzburg-landau Dynamics (1991)

Robert Kohn and Lia Bronsard

Nondegeneracy of Blowup for Semilinear Heat Equations (September 1989)

Robert Kohn and Yoshikazu Giga

Local Minimisers and Singular Perturbations (January 1989)

Robert Kohn and Peter Sternberg

Variational Bounds on the Effective Moduli of Anisotropic Composites (January 1988)

Robert Kohn and Graeme Milton

Relaxation of a Variational Method for Impedance Computed Tomography (November 1987)

Robert Kohn and Michael Vogelius

Charactering Blowup Using Similarity Variables (April 1987)

Robert Kohn and Yoshikazu Giga

Optimal Design and Relaxation of Variational Problems, I (January 1986)

Robert Kohn and Gilbert Strang

Determing Conductivity by Boundary Measurements, II (September 1985)

Robert Kohn and Michael Vogelius

Asymptotically Self-Similar Blow-Up of Semilinear Heat Equations (May 1985)

Robert Kohn and Yoshikazu Giga

Determining Conductivity by Boundary Measurements (May 1984)

Robert Kohn and Michael Vogelius

A New Model for Thin Plates with Rapidly Varying Thickness (January 1984)

Robert Kohn and Michael Vogelius

First Order Interpolation Inequalities with Weights (1984)

Robert Kohn, Luis Caffarelli and Louis Nirenberg

Partial Regularity of Suitable Weak Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations (November 1982)

Robert Kohn, Luis Caffarelli and Louis Nirenberg

ROBERT V. KOHN

Professor of Mathematics; Chair of the Committee on Mathematics in Finance (2003-2006 and 2009-2011); Instructor since 1998

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

On the Bending and Twisting of Rods with Misfit (January 2018)

Coarsening of Folds in Hanging Drapes. (May 2017)

Wrinkling of a Thin Circular Sheet Bonded to a Spherical Substrate. (May 2017)

Optimal Fine-Scale Structures in Compliance Minimization for a Shear Load (August 2016)

Blister Patterns and Energy Minimization in Compressed Thin Films on Compliant Substrates (March 2015)

Metric-Induced Wrinkling of a Thin Elastic Sheet (December 2014)

Wrinkles as the Result of Compressive Stresses in an Annular Thin Film (May 2014)

A Variational Perspective on Cloaking by Anomalous Localized Resonance (May 2014)

Energy Scaling Laws for Conically Constrained Thin Elastic Sheets (October 2013)

Nucleation Barriers for the Cubic-to-Tetragonal Phase Transformation (June 2013)

Homogenization and Effective Moduli of Materials and Media (December 2012)

Topics in the Mathematical Modelling of Composite Materials (December 2012)

The Evolution of a Crystal Surface: Analysis of a One-Dimensional Step Train Connecting Two Facets in the ADL Regime (October 2011)

The String Method as a Dynamical System (April 2011)

Cloaking via Change of Variables for the Helmholtz Equation (August 2010)

A Deterministic-Control-based Approach to Fully Nonlinear Parabolic and Elliptic Equations (2010)

Cloaking via Change of Variables in Electric Impedance Tomography (January 2008)

Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and their Applications (July 1, 2005)

Symmetry, Texture and the Recoverable Strain of Shape-Memory Polycrystals (February 1996)

Surface Energy and Microstructure in Coherent Phase Transitions (April 1994)

Optimal Design for Minimum Weight and Compliance in Plane Stress (1993)

Branching of Twins Near an Austenite – Twinned-Martensite Interface (November 1992)

The Relaxation of a Double-Well Energy (September 1991)

Motion by mean Curvature as the Singular Limit of Ginzburg-landau Dynamics (1991)

Nondegeneracy of Blowup for Semilinear Heat Equations (September 1989)

Local Minimisers and Singular Perturbations (January 1989)

Variational Bounds on the Effective Moduli of Anisotropic Composites (January 1988)

Relaxation of a Variational Method for Impedance Computed Tomography (November 1987)

Charactering Blowup Using Similarity Variables (April 1987)

Optimal Design and Relaxation of Variational Problems, I (January 1986)

Determing Conductivity by Boundary Measurements, II (September 1985)

Asymptotically Self-Similar Blow-Up of Semilinear Heat Equations (May 1985)

Determining Conductivity by Boundary Measurements (May 1984)

A New Model for Thin Plates with Rapidly Varying Thickness (January 1984)

First Order Interpolation Inequalities with Weights (1984)

Partial Regularity of Suitable Weak Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations (November 1982)

Other Faculty

MEHDI H. SONTHONNAX

RICHARD LINDESEY

MERRELL HORA

DEANE YANG

RIAN JOHNSON

ARIANE SANEY

NANCY ANCOWITZ

KENNETH WINSTON

LEON TATEVOSSIAN

RODNEY SUNADA-WONG

AMIR SADR

GORDON RITTER

ROBERT REIDER

MIQUEL NOGUER I ALONSO

FABIO MERCURIO

LEE MACLIN

YADONG LI

DAVID LI

ALEXEY KUPTSOV

ROBERT V. KOHN

IRENA KHREBTOVA

ALIREZA JAVAHERI

JONATHAN B. GOODMAN

SAMIM GHAMAMI

ERAN FISHLER

TRAVIS FISHER

MONTY ESSID

GENE EKSTER

BRUNO DUPIRE

IVAILO DIMOV

PAUL BOURGADE

ILIA BOUCHOUEV

JEROME BENVENISTE

FARSHID M. ASL, PH.D

KENNETH C. ABBOTT

LEIF ANDERSEN

PETTER N. KOLM

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