Steven Levandosky
Curriculum Vitae
Education
-
Ph.D., Mathematics, Brown University, 1997
-
A.B., Mathematics, College of the Holy Cross, 1992
Employment
-
September 2004 - present, College of the Holy Cross, Assistant Professor
-
September 2003 - August 2004, College of the Holy Cross, Visiting Assistant Professor
-
September 1999 - August 2003, Stanford University, Lecturer
-
September 1997 - August 1999, The University of Texas at Austin, Instructor
Mathematical Interests
-
Partial Differential Equations, Nonlinear Wave Equations, Stability of Solitary Waves
Publications
-
Stability of Solitary Waves of a Fifth-Order Water Wave Model.
, Physica D, 227 (2007), no. 2, 162-172.
-
Stability and Weak Rotation Limit of Solitary Waves of the Ostrovsky Equation,
(with Yue Liu), Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Series B, 7 (2007), no. 4, 793-806.
-
Solutions Manual for Introduction to Partial Differential
Equations by Walter A. Strauss. (in progress) (with W. Strauss and J. Levandosky)
-
Stability of Solitary Waves of a Generalized Ostrovsky Equation.,
(with Yue Liu), SIAM J. on Mathematical Analysis, 38 (2006), no. 3, 985-1011.
-
MATLAB Tutorial, 2001, available at
http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~spl/MATLAB/
-
Linear Algebra, Pearson Custom Publishing, Boston, 2001, ISBN 0-536-66747-0
-
Time decay for the nonlinear beam equation.
Cathleen Morawetz: a great mathematician. Methods Appl. Anal. 7 (2000),
no. 3, 479-487. (with Walter Strauss)
-
A stability analysis of fifth-order water wave models.
Physica D 125 (1999), no. 3-4, 222-240.
-
Stability and instability of fourth-order solitary waves.
J. Dynam. Differential Equations 10 (1998), no. 1, 151-188.
-
Decay estimates for fourth order wave equations.
J. Differential Equations 143 (1998), no. 2, 360-413.
Teaching Awards
-
Harold M. Bacon Memorial Teaching Award, Stanford University, 2001
-
President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Honorable Mention,
Brown University, 1995
Computer Stuff
-
C++
-
Java
-
HTML
-
JavaScript
-
Perl
-
LaTeX
-
MATLAB
-
Maple
-
Mathematica
Professional Activities
-
Referee for Physica D
-
Book Reviewer for Prentice Hall
-
Referee for Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Fun
-
playing with my kids
-
running
-
basketball
-
squash
-
rock climbing
-
hiking
-
woodworking