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

Other Faculty

MEHDI H. SONTHONNAX

MEHDI H. SONTHONNAX

RICHARD LINDESEY

RICHARD LINDESEY

MERRELL HORA

MERRELL HORA

DEANE YANG

DEANE YANG

Chair, Committee on Mathematics in Finance, Professor of Mathematics

RIAN JOHNSON

RIAN JOHNSON

Administrative Aide

ARIANE SANEY

ARIANE SANEY

Director, Office of Career Services

NANCY ANCOWITZ

NANCY ANCOWITZ

Director, Office of Career Services

KENNETH WINSTON

KENNETH WINSTON

Instructor since 2019

LEON TATEVOSSIAN

LEON TATEVOSSIAN

Instructor since 2009

RODNEY SUNADA-WONG

RODNEY SUNADA-WONG

Instructor since 2014

AMIR SADR

AMIR SADR

Instructor since 2017

GORDON RITTER

GORDON RITTER

Instructor since 2013

ROBERT REIDER

ROBERT REIDER

Instructor since 2007

MIQUEL NOGUER I ALONSO

MIQUEL NOGUER I ALONSO

Visiting Professor at NYU Courant Institute

FABIO MERCURIO

FABIO MERCURIO

Instructor in 2011

LEE MACLIN

LEE MACLIN

Instructor since 2000

YADONG LI

YADONG LI

Instructor since 2015

DAVID LI

DAVID LI

Instructor since 2020

ALEXEY KUPTSOV

ALEXEY KUPTSOV

Instructor since 2009

ROBERT V. KOHN

ROBERT V. KOHN

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

IRENA KHREBTOVA

IRENA KHREBTOVA

Director, Risk Management at Bank of America

ALIREZA JAVAHERI

ALIREZA JAVAHERI

Instructor since 2011

JONATHAN B. GOODMAN

JONATHAN B. GOODMAN

Professor of Mathematics; Founding Chair of the Committee on Mathematics in Finance; Instructor since 2000

SAMIM GHAMAMI

SAMIM GHAMAMI

Instructor since 2015

ERAN FISHLER

ERAN FISHLER

Instructor since 2008

TRAVIS FISHER

TRAVIS FISHER

Instructor since 2016

MONTY ESSID

MONTY ESSID

Instructor since 2018

GENE EKSTER

GENE EKSTER

Instructor since 2020

BRUNO DUPIRE

BRUNO DUPIRE

Instructor since 2005

IVAILO DIMOV

IVAILO DIMOV

Instructor since 2017

PAUL BOURGADE

PAUL BOURGADE

Associate Professor of Mathematics, Chair of Financial… Mathematics M.S. Program.

ILIA BOUCHOUEV

ILIA BOUCHOUEV

Instructor since 2020

JEROME BENVENISTE

JEROME BENVENISTE

Instructor since 2015

FARSHID M. ASL, PH.D

FARSHID M. ASL, PH.D

Instructor since 2005

KENNETH C. ABBOTT

KENNETH C. ABBOTT

Instructor since 2004

LEIF ANDERSEN

LEIF ANDERSEN

Industry Adviser to the Program

PETTER N. KOLM

PETTER N. KOLM

Program Director, Clinical Professor of Mathematics

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