Homepage of Markos A. Katsoulakis

Professor



Department of Mathematics and Statistics , UMass, Amherst, and

Archimedes Center for Modeling, Analysis & Computation

710 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Room: LGRT 1423G
Tel: (413) 545 1331
Fax: (413) 545 1801
Email: markos [at] math umass edu

Education

Ph.D., Brown University, U.S.A., 1993
B.Sc., National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 1987


Recent Preprints

1. arXiv:1109.2077
Title: Controlled-Error Approximations for Surface Diffusion of Interacting Particles with Applications to Pattern Formation
2. arXiv:1109.0459
Title: Multilevel coarse graining and nano--pattern discovery in many particle stochastic systems
3. arXiv:1105.4673
Title: Hierarchical fractional-step approximations and parallel kinetic Monte Carlo algorithms
4. arXiv:1007.0723
Title: Deterministic Equations for Stochastic Spatial Evolutionary Games
5. arXiv:1006.3781
Title: Coupled coarse graining and Markov Chain Monte Carlo for lattice systems
6. arXiv:1003.1506
Title: Coarse-graining schemes for stochastic lattice systems with short and long-range interactions


Selected publications

  • A Hamilton Jacobi theory for controlled gradient flows in infinite dimensions, (with J. Feng), Arch. Rat. Mech. Analysis 192, 2 , 275-310 (2009).
  • Multi-body interactions in coarse-graining schemes for extended systems (with S. Are, P. Plechac and L. Rey-Bellet), SIAM Sci. Comp., 31, No. 2, 987-1015, (2008).
  • Error control and analysis in coarse-graining of stochastic lattice dynamics (with P. Plechac and A. Sopasakis), SIAM J. Num. Analysis 4 (6), 2270-2296 (2006).
  • Intermittency, metastability and coarse-graining in deterministic/stochastic lattice systems (with A. J. Majda and A. Sopasakis), Nonlinearity 19, 1021-1047, (2006).
  • Mechanistic Principles of Nanoparticle Evolution to Zeolite Crystals (with T. M. Davis, T. O. Drews, H. Ramanan, C. He, J. Dong, H. Schnablegger, E. Kokkoli, A. V. McCormick, R. L. Penn, and M. Tsapatsis), Nature Materials, 5, 400, (2006).
  • Binomial distribution based τ-leap accelerated stochastic simulation, (with A. Chaterjee and D. G. Vlachos), J. Chem. Phys. 122, 024112 (2005).
  • Coarse-grained stochastic models for tropical convection and climate, (with B. Khouider and A. J. Majda), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, (2003), 11941-11946.
  • Coarse-grained stochastic processes for lattice systems, (with A. J. Majda and D. G. Vlachos), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, (2003), 782-787.
  • Hierarchical kinetic Monte Carlo simulations for diffusion of interacting molecules, (with D. G. Vlachos), J. Chem. Phys. 112, 18, (2003).
  • Spectral Methods for Mesoscopic Models In Pattern Formation, (with D. J. Horntrop and D. G. Vlachos), J. Comp. Phys. 173, (2001), 361-390.
  • From microscopic interactions to macroscopic laws of cluster growth (with D. G. Vlachos), Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 7, (2000), 1511-1514.
  • Relaxation Schemes for Curvature-Dependent Front Propagation, (with S. Jin and Z. Xin), Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 52, 12, (1999), 1587{1615.
  • Convergence and Error Estimates of Relaxation Schemes for Multidimensional Conservation Laws (with G. Kossioris and Ch. Makridakis), Comm. P.D.E. 24, (1999), 395-423.
  • Contractive Relaxation Systems and the Scalar Multidimensional Conservation Law, (with A.E. Tzavaras), Comm. P.D.E. 22, (1997), 195-233.
  • Generalized motion by mean curvature as a macroscopic limit of stochastic Ising models with long range interactions and Glauber dynamics (with P. E. Souganidis), Comm. Math. Phys., 169, (1995), 61-97.
  • Interacting Particle Systems and Generalized Evolutions of Fronts (with P. E. Souganidis), Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., 127, (1994), 133-157.
  • Viscosity Solutions of 2nd Order Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations with State Constraints, Indiana U. Math. J. 43, (1994), 493-519.

Research


Teaching

This semester I am teaching:

Math 534H: Introduction to Partial Differential Equations

Math 331.4: Introduction to Differential Equations

CNS Undergraduate Scholarship Program