CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Irene Martinez Gamba

 

 

Address: University of Texas at Austin

                Department of Mathematics

    Austin, TX  78712-1082

Phone     (512) 471-7150

E-mail:   gamba@math.utexas.edu

Citizenship: USA.

 

Degrees

  • Licenciatura en Matematicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1981.
  • Ms in Mathematics, The University of Chicago, Illinois, 1985.
  • Ph.D in Mathematics, The University of Chicago, Illinois, 1989.

 

Thesis Advisor:  Jim Douglas Jr.

Postdoctoral  Advisor: Cathleen Morawetz.

 

Positions held:

 

  • Professor, University of Texas at Austin, from August 1997 to present.
  • Associate Professor, Courant Institute of  Mathematical Sciences, New York University,  September 1996 to July 1997.
  • Assistant Professor, Courant Institute of  Mathematical Sciences, New York University, September 1994 to August 1996.
  • N.S.F. Mathematical Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, June 1992 to July 1994 Grant DMS~9206244.
  • Assistant Professor, The College of New Jersey (former Trenton State College), 1991-1992.
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Purdue University, January to July 1991.
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University, August to December 1990.

 

Special Interests:  Mathematical physics and applied mathematics.

Nonlinear analysis and numerical simulations in charged particle transport modeling at quantum, kinetic and fluid level. Mesoscopic, macroscopic approximations in fluid dynamics. Boltzmann type equations and nonlinear PDE theory. Development of deterministic numerical schemes (WENO vs. discontinuous Galerkin, constrained spectral methods) to transients for nonlinear Boltzmann type problems. Applications to non-equilibrium statistical gas dynamics, granular flows and to transient and  hot-carrier phenomena for kinetics of semiconductor device modeling and simulation and electro-hydrodynamics.

 

Editorial Work:

 Publications Editorial Member Journal of Statistical Physics, Journal of Kinetic and Related Models, Mathematical Physics Electronic Journal.

 

Profesional services:

·         UT coordinator to the EU Erasmus Mundus consortium on MathMods – Mathematical Modeling in Engineering: Theory, Numerics, Applications, December 2007-present.

  • SIAM - SIAG Analysis in PDE, Elected Chair, 2007—2009.
  • AIM, HR Board Member 2006-present
  • IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) at UCLA, Scientific Board member, 2004-present.
  • Arizona State University, Mathematics Department,  External Review Committee Member, April 2001.
  • AMS service
    • AMS Member at Large, Elected member, February 2002-2005.
    • AMS Science Policy Committee member,  February 2002-2005.
    • AMS  Member of the Central Section Program Committee (2001-2002).

o                               NSF special panel: Mathematics in Nanotechnology, October 2000.

·  The University of Texas at Austin service

o                               Promotion and Tenure Committee Member, School of Natural Sciences, 2005, Committee Chair 2006.

o                               ICES GSS Committee member, (1999-present).

o       Organized Research Unit (ORU) Review Recommendations Committee, 2001-2002.

o       ORU Review, Center of Non-linear Dynamics, UT Austin, Committee Chair, Spring 2001.

o       ICES CAM program expansion Committee member, Fall 2001.

o       ICES Admissions and Fellowships GS, (1997--98, 2000-present), Committee Chair (2001-2002).

o       Mathematics Department GSS Committee member, (1998--2002).

o       UT-Austin, Search Committee member for Vice President for Research (VPR), (Fall 1999).

  • CIMS at NYU, Visiting Members Committee (1995-1997).
  • NYU undergraduate College Curriculum member (1996-1997).

 

List of Publications and recent preprints

 

Publications Reviewer: Archive R.M.A, Communications in PDE, Solid State Electronics, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Journal of Statistical Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Computational Electronics, Journal of Differential Equations, SIAM for Applied Math, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications, Proceeding of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics

 

Funding:

  • N.S.F. Individual Research Grant,  DMS- 0507038 `Non-equilibrium problems in collisional kinetic and quantum theory’, June 2005—May2008.
  • N.S.F. Individual Research Grant, DMS-0204568, `Non-equilibrium  Transport Theory  in Nano and Mesoscale Modeling’ June 2002--May 2005.
  • N.S.F. SCREMS  (CoPI) `Computational Mathematics research at UTM’, July 2003--July 2004, Co-PI
  • DARPA Grant  (In collaboration with ECE) `Multi-Scale Behavioral Modeling and Analysis Promoting a Fundamental Understanding of Agent-based System Design and Operation’ June 2001--May 2004 Co-PI
  • N.S.F. Individual Research Grant, DMS-9971779, ‘Mathematical Issues in the Modeling and Simulation of  Self-consistent Charge Particle Transport’, June 1999--May 2002.
  • TARP 003658-0459-1999, PI on ‘Multi-Scale Charged Particle Transport and Applications to Sub Micron Semiconductor Models’, Jan 2000--Dec 2001.
  • N.S.F. International Programs, NSF 96-14 DMS Applied Mathematics, CO-PI, USA-France, ‘Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Hybrid Quantum Models with Applications to Semiconductor Devices’,  May 1999--May 2002.
  • N.S.F. Individual Research Grant, DMS-9623037, June 96--May  99.
  • N.Y.U. Research Challenge Fund, June 96--June 97.
  • N.S.F. International Programs-International Opportunities for Scientists and Engineers,  CO-PI, USA-Germany. ‘Quantum Fluid Dynamical Approaches to Solid State Transport Modelling’. May 96--May 99.
  • Fulbright International Research/lecture Award. June--August 1997.

 

Invited AMS Address and distinguish lectures:

 

  • AMS invited address, Central Regional meeting, Athens, Ohio, March 26,2004.
  • Matheon distinguish lecture, Multiscale Problems in Quantum Mechanics and Averaging Techniques WIAS Berlin, September (2005).
  • Introductory keynote of the Amy Noether lecture at the ICM-98, Berlin, August 1998.
  • XV David Alcaraz Spinola Lecture Award, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico, October 2005.

 

 

Invited positions:

 

  • University of Kyoto, two weeks, March 2008.
  • Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris,  one month, June 2007.
  • Visiting Professor, University of P.Sabatier, Toulouse, France, May 2007.
  • Visiting Professor, Universidad de Mar del Plata, Argentina, one month, March 2007.
  • Visiting Professor, Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonne, Universite de Nice, France, one month, June 2003.
  • Senior  core participant at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA. Program: Mathematics in Nanoscale Science and Engineering, 8 weeks, Fall 2002.
  • Senior long term participant and organizer of the IMA Spring 2000, Reactive Flow and Transport Phenomena. IMA, University of Minnesota.
  • Visiting Professor, University of P.Sabatier, Toulouse, France, June 1997.
  • C.N.R.S. Visitor at Paris VI, Paris, France, May and June 1995.
  • I.M.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1 to 31, 1991.
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires,  August 1991,  1992,  1993 and  1994.
  • Visiting Member Universita di Pavia, January – April 1990

 

Postdocs

Jose Antonio Carrillo, Maria Cristina Mariani, Dirk Gillespie, Vladislav Panferov, Jing Shi, Jennifer Prof., Maria Gualdani, Yingda Cheng.

 

Students (current student with  *)

PhD Students: Ross Heath(CAM) (PhD’07),  Ricardo Alonso* (Math) ,  Harsha Tharkabhushanam* (CAM)

 

Masters students:  Jill Zaretski (CAM, MS’00), Paula Thron, (Math), Jody Schneider (Math, MS’02), Mauricio Santillana (CAM, MS’04), Paul Larsen (Math, MS’05),  Novie Darmawan (CAM, MS’05), Ray Yarbrough (Math, MS’05).

 

Undergraduate Students: Benjamin Okaty, VIGRE Trainee (Math),

 Philip Eckhoff (MATH/CAM),Virginia Roberts VIGRE Trainee (Math),

 

Dissertation Committee member 2004-2005

CAM program: 3 (CSM),  4 (Math Finance),

Physics Department: 4 ,

Mechanical Engineering Department: 1,

Mathematics Department: 4.

 

 

Conference and session organizer

·         Session on Complex Particle Systems: Quantum Kinetic and Semiclassical Transport Models ,  SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PD07) December 07  (With A.Arnold, M.P.Gualdani and C. Ringhofer)

·         Minisymposium:  Analysis and numerical issues in kinetic equations (IC/MP/025/S/1094), ICIAM 07 Zurich, Switzerland, July 2007,  (with Jennifer Proft and Maria Gualdani

·         Minisymposium: Quantum and Kinetic Transport Phenomena - Part II of II SIAG in Applied PDE, SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, July 2006.  (with Jennifer Proft)

·         MSRI --  Women in Mathematics: the legacy of Ladyzhenskaya and Oleinik, May 18-20, 2006,

·         ICES International Workshop, Issues on computational transport in meso and nano scales, Austin, TX, March 2005.

·         SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PD04) session organizer, Boltzmann Equations in Transport Theory, Houston,TX, December 2004.

·         SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (MS04) session organizer,  Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Granular Flows,  Los Angeles, CA, June 2004.

·         AMS-RSME session organizer, Mathematical aspects of semiconductor modeling and nano-technology, Sevilla, Spain, June, 2003.

  • AMS-UMI   Session Organizer, Mathematical Problems in Transport Theory , Pisa, Italy, June 2002.
  • SIAM Annual meeting, Session organizer,   Mathematical issues in kinetic theory, San Juan, Puerto Rico. July 2000,
  • IMA tutorial workshop,    Simulations of transition regimes, May 2000.
  • AMS 948, Session Organizer,   Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena, Austin, TX, October 1999.

 

Invited conference speaker

 

·         PDE session speaker, International congress on Operation Research, Havana, Cuba, February 08.

·         Mod&Sim 07, Partial Differential Equations in Applied and Engineering Sciences: Modelling and Simulation- In honour of Jim Douglas Jr. INRIA, Paris, December 2007.

·         Session on Kinetic Theory and Interacting Particle Systems,  invited speaker, SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PD07), December 07.

·         Midwest PDE, invited speaker, Northwestern University, November 2007.

·         Mathematics: Analysis, Modeling, Optimization and Simulation workshop (MAMOS), invited speaker, UT Austin, October 2007.

·         SISPAD07 (International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices) invited paper presentation, TU Wien, Vienna, September 2007.

·         Minisymposium: invited presentation at Dynamics of nonlinear waves in heterogeneous media (IC/MP/040/S/167),  ICIAM 07 Zurich, Switzerland, July 2007.

·         Minisymposium:  invited presentation at Multiscale modeling and computation: fluids( IC/MP/010/R/729), ICIAM 07 Zurich, Switzerland, July 2007.

·         5th Workshop on kinetic theory and applications, Karlstad University, Sweden. June 2007.

·         invited speaker to ‘Numerical and asymptotic methods for kinetic equations Workshop’, University of Saarlands, Saarbrucken,  Germany, February 2007.

·         Graduate PDE course lectures, (24 hours), Universidad de Mar del Plata, Argentina, March 2007.

·         BIRS Workshop in Numerical Analysis of Multiscale Computations, Banff Center, January 2007.

·         The University of Buenos Aires, Non-Linear PDE’s international  school (3 hour lectures), December 2006

·         Oberwolfach conference on "Classical and Quantum Mechanical Models of Many-Particle Systems"  -, Oberwolfach, Germany, December 2006

·         Invited plenary lecture, Computational Methods of  Transport Workshop, Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe, CA, September 2006.

·         Minisymposium: Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Related Models,  SIAG Applied PDE, SIAM Meeting, Boston, July 2006

·         Conference in Discontinuous change in behaviour issues in partial  differential equations, Current trends in Mathematics School, June 10 - 16 (2006), Anogia, Crete, Greece.

·         Invited speaker for ' Workshop : Quantum mechanics of complex systems'. E. Schroedinger Institute, Vienna, (June 2006).

·         International school in Partial differential Equations, Universidad  Autonoma de Mexico, 3 hour-lectures, (May 2006)

·         Workshop: MSRI, UC Berkeley --  Women in Mathematics: the legacy of  Ladyzhenskaya and  Oleinik, May 18-20, 2006.

·         BIRS Workshop in Non Linear Diffusions, Banff Center, April 2006.

·         FRG Workshop on Multi-Dimensional Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, Houston, March 2006.

·         Computational Methods and Applied  Partial Differential Equations  Workshop,Iowa State University,  Ames,  Iowa, November 2005.

·         Rolf Schock Prize Meeting in Mathematics,  Stockholm,  October, 2005.

·         Conference on Non-linear PDE, Univeristy of Vienna, October 2005.

·         5th Workshop. Multiscale Problems in Quantum Mechanics and Averaging Techniques. WIAS Berlin, September 2005.

·         International Forum on Multiscale Methods and Partial Differential Equations Workshop in Celebration of Bjorn Engquist's 60th Birthday, IPAM, UCLA, August (2005)

·         III International Symposium on Nonlinear PDEs \& Free Boundary Problems, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2005.

·         Symposium on Granular Matter: Mathematical Modeling and Physical Instances sponsored by Accademia  Nazionale dei Lincei,  Reggio Calabria, Italy, June 2005.

·         4th Workshop on kinetic theory and applications,  Karlstad University, Sweden. June 2005.

·         Classics in PDE, Meeting in Honor of Nina Uraltceva, Stokholm, Sweden, June 2005,

·         PCA Workshop IV: Transfer Phenomena, IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics), May 2005.

·         AIM (American Institute of Mathematics), Workshop on Stiff Sources and Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws, Palo Alto, CA, April 2005.

·         SIAM Conference (SIAMPD04), invited  Minisymposium on Recent Advances in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, Houston, TX, December 2004,

·         AMS regional conference, session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications, Pittsburg, PE, November 2004.

·         6th MAFPD-04 (Sixth Mathematical Aspects of Plasma and Fluid Dynamics Conference-2004), Kyoto, Japan, September 2004

·         International Conference on Control, Partial Differential Equations and Scientific Computing, dedicated to late Prof. J.-L. Lions,  Beijing, September 2004.

·         Congress in honour of Carlo Cercignani, Montecatini, Italy, September  2004.

·         Workshop in Partial Differential Equations,  Escuela de Verano  UIMP, Santander, Spain, July 2004.

·         International Conference on Modelling and Numerics of Kinetic Dissipative systems, Lipari, June 2004.

·         SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (MS04) Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Granular Flows, May 2004. LA.

·         IC0SAHOM04,minisymposium on WENO methods, Brown University, May 2004.

·         Workshop on Kinetic Theory, Fields Institute, March 2004.

·         Invited to Oberwolfach,  Classical and Quantum Mechanical Models of Many-Particle Systems, November 2003

·         Second Workshop on Kinetic Theory and applications, invited speaker, Karlstad, Sweden, September 2002.

·         ICM2002 International Satellite Conference in Scientific Computing, Jiantong University, Xian, China, 2002.

·         ETOPIM 6: Sixth International Conference on the Electrical Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media, invited session speaker, July 2002.

·         AMS-UMI Invited Session speaker, Mixed Type PDE and Applications,  Pisa, Italy,  June 2002.

·         International conference in  Advances in Non-linear PDE,  invited speaker, L'Aquila, Italy, June 2002.

·         Summer School on Methods and Models of Kinetic Theory, invited speaker, Porto Ercole (Grosseto) Italy, June 2002.

·         TMR workshop on Asymptotic Methods in Kinetic Theory,  invited speaker, Universitat des Saarlands, Germanny,  December 2001.

·         SIAM Annual Meeting, invited session speaker , Biological transport in channels, (2001)

·         International conference in non-linear PDE, invited speaker, Huang Zhang, China, June 2001.

·         Oberwolfach, Asymptotic and Numerical Methods for Kinetic Equations, invited speaker,  April 2001.

·         TMR workshop on New applications of kinetic theory , invited speaker,  Gothenburg University, Sweden, June 2000.

·         IMA tutorial workshop,    Simulations of transition regimes, invited two hour tutorial, May 2000.

·         Oberwolfach,   Nonlinear Equations in Many-Particle Systems, invited speaker, Dec 1999.

·         SIAM Annual meeting, May 1999, Session on Computational Methods for PDE's  invited speaker.

·         Invited speaker, Workshop on Analytical Techniques and AsymptoticMethods for Kinetic Problems, ESI, Vienna, Austria, October 98.

·         Northwestern University, April 1994, Workshop May 1996, April 1999.

·         Invited speaker at the International PDE conference, Northwestern  University, March 20-24,  1998.

·         Contributed talk at International Workshop of Computational Electronics 97, (IWCE-97), Notre Dame, May 1997.

·         Invited lecture, Escuela de Matematica Aplicada, Mar del Plata, Argentina, July 96

·         Paper contribution speaker at Venice  P.Lax and L.Nirenberg 70th birthday's conference. June 1996.

·         Speaker at ECMI 96 at the Minisymposium on Aerodynamics and Aircraft Industry.  June 1996.

·         Minisymposium  speaker, ICIAM 95,    on Mathematical Theory of Semiconductors, Hamburg, Germany, June 1995.

·         Invited speaker at the Applied Kinetic Theory workshop held at I.A.S., Princeton, March 1995.

·         Short communication speaker, V  Intern. Conf. on Hyperbolic problems, Stony Brook, N.Y., June 1994.

·         Invited speaker at the Non-linear PDE and free boundary problems Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina,  August 1994.

·         ELAM(Escuela Latino-Americana de Matematica), Cordoba, Argentina, August  91.

 

 

Invited University Lectures:

 

·         Analysis seminar, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, March 2008.

·         Applied Math Seminar, University of Southern California, November 2007.

·         Koc University,  Istanbul, Turkey, July 2007.

·         Universita de l ‘Aquila, June 2007.

·         Applied Mathematics colloquium, Brown University, May 2007.

·         Universite Paul Sabatier (Applied Mathematics Colloquium) May 2007.

·         De Paul University, February 2007.

·         University of Pavia, Pavia Italy, June 2006.

·         PDE seminar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, June 2006.

·         The University of Vienna, Vienna, June 2006,

·         Applied Mathematics colloquium, The University of Wisconsin at  Madison,  April 2006.

·         Applied Math colloquium, Texas A&M, March 2006.

·         The University of Buenos Aires, Colloquium lecture, March 2005.

·         Applied Mathematics colloquium, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, November 2004

·         Applied Mathematics colloquium, Stanford University, October 2004.

·         Colloquium Lecture, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France. December 2003.

·         Colloquium lecture, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, November 2003.

·         Universidad de Buenos Aires, Invited speaker, July 2003.

·         Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Princeton University, May 2003.

·         Fields Institute, invited Applied Math Colloquium, february 2003.

·         Academia Sinica, Beijing, China, August 2002.

·         Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain,    invited speaker,    June 2002 .

·         Universidad de Granada, Spain,   invited speaker,    June 2002 .

·         University of Napoli, Italy, two hour lecture invited  speaker, June 2002.

·         Beijing University, invited speaker, June 2001.

·         Southern Methodist University, Colloquium speaker, March 2001.

·         University of Houston, Applied Mathematics colloquium, November 2000.

·         INRIA, Paris, France, Applied Mathematics  colloquium, June 2000.

·         UT-Austin, Physics Department, October 1999, March 2002.

·         Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of California at Santa Barbara, March 98.

·         Universit\'e Paul Sabatier, invited lecture, Toulouse, France, May 95, June 98.

·         IBM Watson Labs, invited lecture, New York, May 97.

·         Stanford University, August 1992, April 1996.

·         UCLA, April 1996, April 2002

·         Brown University, April 1995, September 1996.

·         Rutgers University, April 95 and November 96.

·         Cornell University, November 95.

·         Tech. University of Berlin, May 90, June 95 and May 96.

·         Universit\'e Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, May 95

·         Speaker at Y.Sinai seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, April 1995.

·         University of Texas at Austin, November 1993 and December 1994.

·         M.I.T., April 1993.

·         CNEA (Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica), Physics of Solids Department, Buenos Aires, Argentina,  August 1994

·         Colloquium Lecture at AHPCRC, University of Minnesota, May 91.

·         IMA, University of Minnesota, May 91.

·         Courant Institute of Math Sc. at New York University, February 1993

·         Colloquium lecture, University of Connecticut, February 1993.