Matthias Heymann, Assistant Research Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	233 Physics Bldg
Office Phone:	(919)660-2802
Email Address:
Web Page:	www.matthiasheymann.de

Teaching (Fall 2008):

• MATH 131.01, ELEM DIFFERENTIAL EQUAT

  Physics 128, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

Office Hours:

Wed, 3-4 pm
Thu, 1-2 pm

Education:

PhD

New York University

2007

Specialties:

Probability
Applied Math

Research Interests: computation of transition paths for rare events, application to biology

Areas of Interest:

probability
numerical analysis
functional analysis
biology

Recent Publications

1. M. Heymann, E. Vanden-Eijnden, Pathways of maximum likelihood for rare events in non-equilibrium systems, Physical Review Letters, vol. 100 no. 14 (2007), pp. 140601
2. M. Heymann, E. Vanden-Eijnden, The Geometric Minimum Action Method - A Least Action Principle on the Space of Curves, CPAM (Accepted, 2007)
3. E. Vanden-Eijnden, M. Heymann, The Geometric Minimum Action Method for Computing Minimum Energy Paths, Journal of Chemical Physics (Accepted, 2007)