The second edition of David Logan's popular graduate text on nonlinear partial differential equations appeared in
2008. The new edition contains additional applications from the life sciences, but it retains its original goal of bringing an
accessible book to students and researchers in the pure and applied sciences. The key topics are: a review of linear PDEs, first
order PDEs, classical and weak solutions, hyperbolic systems, nonlinear diffusion and nonlinear elliptic equations. Applications
include topics in traffic flow, combustion, biology, fluid mechanics, quantum mechanics, heat transfer, chemical reactor theory,
age structure, epidemiology and pattern formation. The book contains many exercises of varying degrees of difficulty.
Upcoming Events
- Nov 6, 2009: Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture given by Professor Andrew Rich of Manchester College.
- Nov 12, 2009: 20th Anniversary Math Day
- Jan 29-31, 2010: Twelfth Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics
Job Openings
The department has openings for a tenure-track position in Modern Analysis as well as a postdoctoral position.
News
- Apr 26, 2009: Mikil Foss, Srikanth Iyengar and Jim Lewis have
all been recognized at the annual All University Honors Convocation. To
see more mathematics faculty awards, click here.
- Mikil Foss has been awarded the College Distinguished Teaching Award.
- Srikanth Iyengar has been awarded the College Distinguished Teaching Award.
- Jim Lewis has been awarded the George Howard-Louise Pound Award, which is awarded for exceptional contributions through teaching, and the Aaron Douglas Professorship, which is awarded to faculty who demonstrate sustained and extraordinary levels of teaching excellence and national visibility for instructional activities and/or practice.
- Apr 14, 2009: The Department has been honored by the American Mathematical Society with the society's 2009 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department. See also:
- Feb, 2009: We are pleased to announce that Professor Judy Walker has been named as the Polya Lecturer for 2009-10 and 2010-11 by the Mathematical Association of America.
