Jeffrey Cheng

Office: PMA 10.104

Email: jeffrey.cheng[at]utexas.edu


I am a fifth year PhD student (in Fall 2026) in the mathematics department at the University of Texas at Austin. My advisor is Alexis Vasseur. I am on the job market for postdoctoral positions this year!

Curriculum Vitae


CV

Research Interests


I work on the analysis of nonlinear PDEs arising in continuum mechanics (hyperbolic conservation laws, compressible Navier-Stokes equations, fluid mechanics).

Publications


  • The Unique Limit of the Glimm-Lax Construction for Sobolev Data and Obstructions to 1-d Convex Integration (w/ C. Faile, S. Krupa). (to appear in Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. ) [arxiv]

  • Relative Entropy Contractions for Extremal Shocks of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems without Genuine Nonlinearity. (to appear in J. Hyperbolic Differ. Equ. ) [arxiv]

  • Viscous Destabilization for Large Shocks of Conservation Laws (w/ P. Blochas). (to appear in SIAM J. Math. Anal.) [arxiv]

  • Uniqueness & Weak-BV Stability in the Large for Isothermal Gas Dynamics. (J. Differ. Equ. 446 (2025), 113599) [arxiv]

  • L^2 Stability & Minimal Entropy Conditions for Scalar Conservation Laws with Concave-Convex Fluxes. (Quart. Appl. Math. 83 (2025), 667-722) [arxiv]

Preprints


    TBD

Teaching


In Fall 2026 I am not teaching.

Notes


Notes

Disambiguation


My name is decently popular in STEM academia. I am not Jeffrey Cheng, nor am I Jeffrey Cheng.

Bluebonnets in Austin, 2026