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Professor of Mathematics; Deputy Director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Ph.D. 1979 (mathematics), Princeton; M.Sc. 1975 (mathematics), Warwick; B.A. 1974 (mathematics), Harvard.
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Personal Homepage: http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/index.html
Research Interests: Nonlinear partial differential equations, calculus of variations, phase transformations, composite materials.
Affiliations: American Mathematical Society, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Materials Research Society.
Fellowships/Honors: Midwest Mechanics Lecturer, 1994-1995; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1984-1986; National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1979-1981.
Selected Works:
Elastic energy minimization and the recoverable strains of polycrystalline shape-memory materials, with Bhattacharya, K. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 139. 1997. 99-180.
Microstructures minimizing the energy of a two phase elastic composite in two space dimensions II: the Vigdergauz microstructure, with Y. Grabovsky. J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 43. 1995. 949-972.
Surface energy and microstructure in coherent phase transitions, with S. Muller. Comm. on Pure and Applied Math., 47. 1994. 405-435.
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