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Robert M. Strain

Harvard University
Department of Mathematics
One Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Office: Science Center 230
Phone: 617 495 5340
E-mail: email address of StrainRobert@math.harvard.edu
Math Department
NSF


Welcome to my homepage. I am currently (until the end of Spring 2008) a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics here at Harvard, and I hold a National Science Foundation Fellowship.


NEW For the 2008-2009 academic year, I will be a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton. I also have a Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, where I will start teaching in the following year.


My mathematical research has been focused on the analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations. I have written papers about the Boltzmann equation and several models derived from it, such as the Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system, the relativistic Landau-Maxwell system, the Balescu-Lenard equation, and other non-relativistic soft-potential Boltzmann and Landau models. I also work on the equations of incompressible fluid mechanics, the Navier-Stokes equations (here are my preprints).


You can find more information about me by clicking on the links in the top bar. My teaching page contains information about courses that I have taught here at Harvard.


I used to maintain the webpage for the joint MIT/Harvard Analysis Seminar. The page for our current seminar was then moved here. However up-to-date seminar information for the seminar presently resides on this page at MIT.


Here is a short list of conferences on the Analysis of PDE.


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Here is a quote to reflect upon:
''If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.'' -Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855) (In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. p. 326.)