Curriculum Vitae
J. Thomas Beale
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217 Physics Bldg
Durham, NC 27708-0320+1 919 660 2839 (office) 
(email)
- Education
B.S., California Institute of Technology, 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
- Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Invited Lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians, August, 1994
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 1978
- Recent Grant Support
- Supplement to "Computational Methods for Singular..." for graduate student support, N. S. F., DMS-0404765-001, 2005/07-2007/06.
- Computational Methods for Singular and Nearly Singular Integrals with Applications to Fluid Dynamics, N.S.F., 2004/07-2007/06.
- Selected Recent Invited Talks
- 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
- Workshop on high-order methods for computational wave propagation and scattering, American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA, September 11, 2007
- Doctoral Theses Directed
- 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)
- David Ambrose, Well-posedness of Vortex Sheets with Surface Tension, (2002)
- Publications (listed separately)
Last modified: 2008/04/11