Nahmod awarded Radcliffe Institute fellowship

Andrea R. Nahmod, professor of Mathematics and Statistics, has been awarded a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for the 2009-10 academic year.

During her year in Cambridge she will join others from across the country and abroad representing different academic, professional and artistic fields who seek interdisciplinary collaboration. The institute’s mission is to create new knowledge and an academic community where fellows can pursue advanced work, with a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender and society.

Nahmod’s research focuses on the analysis of nonlinear dispersive wave phenomena. She uses dispersive partial differential equations (PDE) to model certain wave propagation phenomena in nature. At the Radcliffe Institute, she will collaborate with Gigliola Staffilani of MIT and focus on two goals. First, the behavior of solutions of a nonlinear dispersive PDE arising in ferromagnetism and nonlinear optics, and a spin-model known as the Ishimori system in the hyperbolic setting. Second, the role of data randomization and the existence and invariance of the associated Gibbs measures to obtain, respectively, sharper results on local well-posedness and global existence for “generic data”; that is, almost surely in the sense of probability. The focus is on certain periodic nonlinear PDE for which there is a gap between local well-posedness results and those which could be globally achieved for all solutions.

Nahmod has been a member of the faculty since 1998.

April 28, 2009.

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