Curriculum Vitae
J. Thomas Beale
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217 Physics Building
Durham, NC 277080320(919) 660-2839 (office) 
(email)
- Education
B.S., Caltech, 1967
M.S., Stanford University, 1969
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1973
- Areas of Research
Partial Differential Equations and Fluid Mechanics
- Professional Experience / Employment History
- Duke University
- Professor, Mathematics, 1983 - present
- Tulane University
- Professor, Mathematics, 1982 - 1983
- Associate Professor, Mathematics, 1977 - 1982
- Assistant Professor, Mathematics, 1973 - 1977
- Associate Professor, Mathematics, 1977 - 1982
- Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Invited Lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians, August, 1994
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 1978
- Recent Grant Support
- Numerical Methods for Moving Interfaces in Fluids, N.S.F., DMS-0806482, 2008/07-2012/06.
- Selected Recent Invited Talks
- Conference on Partial Differential Equations, U.N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., July 18, 2012
- Colloquium, Drexel University, Philadelphia, April 26, 2012
- Seminar, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, March 06, 2012
- Colloquium, Peking University, Beijing, China, March 05, 2012
- Seminar, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, March 01, 2012
- Seminar, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, February 27, 2012
- Seminar, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, February 24, 2012
- NCTS Workshop on Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems, Hsinchu, Taiwan, May 27, 2011
- Workshop on Fluid Motion Driven by Immersed Structures, Fields Inst., Toronto, CA, August 10, 2010
- Analysis and Computation of Incompressible Fluid Flow, I.M.A. Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, February 25, 2010
- Modern Perspectives in Applied Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York Univ., May 19, 2009
- Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics, New Jersey Inst. Tech., May 19, 2008
- Interface Problems Workshop, S.A.M.S.I., R.T.P., NC, November 15, 2007
- Workshop on high-order methods for computational wave propagation and scattering, American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA, September 11, 2007
- Minisymposium, Sixth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Zurich, Switzerland, July 18, 2007
- Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and P.D.E., A.M.S. Sectional Meeting, Davidson, N.C., March 03, 2007
- Workshop on the Mathematical Theory of Water Waves, Oberwolfach, Germany, November 13, 2006
- Kyoto Conference on the Navier-Stokes Equations and their Applications, Kyoto, Japan, January 6, 2006
- Colloquium, Drexel University, Philadelphia, April 26, 2012
- Doctoral Theses Directed
- Michael Pruitt, Maximum norm regularity of implicit difference methods for parabolic equations, (August, 2011)
- Jason R. Wilson, On computing smooth, singular, and nearly singular integrals on implicitly defined surfaces, (August, 2010)
- Matthew W. Surles, Numerical Approximation of Layer Potentials along Curve Segments, (August, 2008)
- Michael Nicholas, A third order numerical method for 3D doubly periodic electromagnetic scattering problems, (August, 2007)
- David Ambrose, Well-posedness of Vortex Sheets with Surface Tension, (2002)
- Henry Suters, Ph.D., (1994)
- Andrew Ferrari, Ph.D., (1992)
- Alfred Bourgeois, Ph.D., (1991)
- Tien-Yu Sun, Ph.D., (1991)
- Donna Gates Sylvester, Ph.D., (1988)
- Jason R. Wilson, On computing smooth, singular, and nearly singular integrals on implicitly defined surfaces, (August, 2010)
- Publications (listed separately)
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