Elena Cherkaev

    Professor

London

Department of Mathematics
University of Utah
155 South 1400 East, JWB 233
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090
Email: elena@math.utah.edu
Tel :  801 - 581 7315
Fax :  801 - 581 4148


                                     


The mathematician is an artist whose medium is the mind and whose creations are ideas.
H.S.Wall, Creative Mathematics


Research Areas: Inverse Problems  Numerical Methods  Optimization
Inhomogeneous media Applications: Biomechanics and Geophysics

Fractals - Undergraduate Colloquium, Spring 2012

Selected Papers


Current Teaching: Spring 2013
Math 5470 /6440
 Chaos and Nonlinear systems
  T H:  10:45am - 12:05pm   WEB L112
Math 1210
Calculus I
  T H:  3:40 - 5:40pm   LCB 219 




Past Teaching

Math 5410 /6840
Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations


Math 5750 / 6880
Computational Inverse Problems


Math 5740

Mathematical  Modeling

 

Math 2280
Differential Equations

Math 3150

Partial Differential Equations


Math 4950
/5910  
Fractals
Applied Complex Variables


Math 5600

Survey Numerical Analysis

Math 1100

Quantitative Analysis








Julia set


 

Nonconvex Variational Problems - VIGRE Mini-course
   May 16-27, 2005
Week One Faculty, Guest Speaker, & Participants

Week Two Faculty, Guest Speaker, & Participants



Links

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IoP EJ AIP EJ  AMS  Funding Utah 

www publications: Math. comics 
(with Andrej Cherkaev )