ROBIN CARL YOUNG 


Department of Mathematics and Statistics          20 Norwottuck Dr.
University of Massachusetts                       Hadley,  MA 01035
Amherst, MA 01003                                 
(413) 545 1726                                    (413) 584 5883
e-mail: young@math.umass.edu                      fax: (413) 545 1801

EDUCATION

    Ph.D., Mathematics June 1991
University of California, Davis
Advisor: Professor J. Blake Temple
    B.Sc. Honours, Mathematics April 1985
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
    B.Sc., Mathematics and Computer Science March 1984
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

    Assistant Professor    Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1996-present.
    Visiting Professor    Institut Mathématique de Rennes, Université de
Rennes I, France, April 1996.
    Post-doctoral Associate    Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University at Stony Brook, 1994-1996.
    Associate Research Scientist    Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 1991-1994.
    Lecturer and Teaching Assistant    Mathematics, UC Davis, 1985-1991.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and Continuum Mechanics.

Nonlinear Waves and their Interactions.

Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations.


GRANTS & AWARDS

``Wave Interactions in Continuum Mechanics'', National Science Foundation, Applied Mathematics, 2001-2004. Awarded $85 000.
Faculty Research Travel Grant. University of Massachusetts, 1999. $800.
Richard C. DiPrima Prize, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1992.
Allen G. Marr Award for the best thesis in the Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering, UC Davis, 1991.
Regent's Fellowship, UC Davis, 1986-87. Reawarded 1987-88 and 1988-89.
University Scholarship, University of the Witwatersrand, 1985.
CSIR Bursary Scholarship, University of the Witwatersrand, 1984.
AEB Bursary Scholarship, University of the Witwatersrand, 1980-1983.

PUBLICATIONS

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R.C. Young. An Extension of Glimm's Method to Third Order in Wave Interactions. PhD thesis, U.C. Davis, 1991.

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Robin Young. Sup-norm stability for Glimm's scheme. Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 46, 903-948, 1993.

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Robin Young. On elementary interactions for hyperbolic conservation laws. Preprint, 1993.

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B. Temple and R. Young. The large time existence of periodic solutions for the compressible Euler equations. Matemática contemporânea, 11, 171-190, 1996.

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B. Temple and R. Young. Solutions to the Euler equations with large data. In Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications. World Scientific Press, pp. 258-267, 1996.

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B. Temple and R. Young. The large time stability of sound waves. Comm. Math. Phys., 179, 417-466, 1996.


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J. Glimm, J. Grove, X-L. Li, R. Young, Y. Zeng and Q. Zhang. Front Tracking:, A Parallelized Approach for Internal Boundaries and Interfaces. In Applied Parallel Computing in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Science. Lecture Notes in Computer Science # 1041, pp. 257-266, 1996.

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Robin Young, James Glimm, and Brian Boston. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing. World Scientific Press, 427 pages, 1996.

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Robin Young. Exact solutions to degenerate conservation laws. SIAM J. Math. Anal., 30, 537-558, 1999.

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Robin Young. Periodic solutions for conservation laws. Contemp. Math., 255, 239-256, 2000.

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Robin Young. Sustained solutions for conservation laws. Comm. PDE, 26, 1-32, 2001.

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Robin Young. Wave interactions in nonlinear strings, I. In Godunov Methods, Theory and Applications, E.F. Toro, editor, to appear.

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Robin Young. Wave interactions in nonlinear strings, II. In Eighth Int'l Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications, to appear.

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Robin Young. Wave interactions in nonlinear elastic strings. Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. to appear.

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Robin Young. Nonstrictly hyperbolic waves in elasticity. J. Diff. Eq. submitted.

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Robin Young. The p-system I: The Riemann problem. Contemp. Math. submitted.

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Robin Young. The p-system II: The vacuum. In Nonlinear Evolution Equations, Warsaw 2001, submitted.

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Robin Young. Symmetries for conservation laws. In preparation.

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Robin Young. The p-system with large data. In preparation.

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W. Domanski and R. Young. Interactions of plane waves in nonlinear elasticity. In preparation.

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W. Domanski and R. Young. Wave interactions in 3-D conservation laws. In preparation.


SELECTED RECENT PRESENTATIONS

International Workshop on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, Banach Center, Warsaw, 2001.
The Legacy of the Inverse Scattering Transform, AMS Summer Research Conference, 2001.
AMS National Meeting, New Orleans, 2001.
Joint AMS-HKMS International Meeting, Hong Kong, 2000.
PDE Seminar, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dec. 2000.
PDE Seminar, Brown University, Fall 2000.
AMS Southeast Sectional Meeting, Birmingham AL, 2000.
Eighth International Conference on Differential Equations, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2000.
Eighth International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems, Magdeburg, Germany, 2000.
Applied Math seminar, University of Massachusetts, Spring 2000.
70th Birthday celebration of S.K. Godunov, Oxford, 1999.
Evolution Equations, AMS Summer Research Conference, 1998.
AMS Western Sectional Meeting, Davis CA, 1998.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

    Ad Hoc Reviewer: Comm. PDE, Proc. AMS, J. Math. Anal. & Appl., SIAM J. Num. Anal., Trans. AMS, Methods & Appls. Anal., J. Comp. Phys., SIAM J. Math. Anal., Addison-Wesley-Longman.
    Invited guest speaker, Hadley Elementary School.
    Chair, Local Organizing Committee, Fifth International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Stony Brook, July 1995.
    Editorial Committee, Proceedings for the Fifth International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems, Stony Brook, July 1994.

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

    Chair, Undergraduate Major Review Committee.
    Member, Candidate Evaluation Subcommittee (Hiring Committee).
    Member, Library Committee.
    Member, Research Computing Facility Committee.
    Member and Chair, Comprehensive Exam Committees: Numerical Analysis, Differential Equations.
    Member and Chair, Course Review Committees: Numerical Analysis, Calculus.
    Major Advisor, L. Puthanveetil, M.S. (2000), S. Iyer, B.S. (2001).
    Thesis Committee, I. Rodriguez, M. Gummalla (Ph.D., Chem.Eng.); Z.Chen, E. Ezster (Ph.D., Math); M. Ramanathpure (M.S., Mech.Eng.); S.Tael, B.Boston (Ph.D., Appl Math, Stony Brook).
    Undergraduate Advisor, approx. 12 students annually.

RECENT COURSES TAUGHT

    Graduate: Partial Differential Equations, Linear and Nonlinear Waves, Numerical Analysis I & II.
    Undergraduate: Scientific Computing I & II, Differential Equations, Calculus for Life Sciences (large lecture), Calculus I (course chair).
    Seminars: Statistical Mechanics (participant), Stochastic Differential Equations (participant), Conservation Laws (leader).



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