Matthias Heymann, Assistant Research Professor

Contact Info:

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

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• MATH 242.01, FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS Synopsis

  Physics 227, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• MATH 135.02, PROBABILITY Synopsis

  Physics 259, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

Education:

PhD

New York University

2007

Specialties:

Probability
Applied Math

Research Interests: theory and computation of transition curves for rare events, application to biology

Areas of Interest:

probability
numerical analysis
functional analysis
biology

Recent Publications

1. M. Heymann, E. Vanden-Eijnden, The Geometric Minimum Action Method - A Least Action Principle on the Space of Curves, CPAM, vol. 61 no. 8 (August, 2008), pp. 1052-1117, Wiley InterScience
2. E. Vanden-Eijnden, M. Heymann, The Geometric Minimum Action Method for Computing Minimum Energy Paths, Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 128 no. 061103 (February 14, 2008)
3. 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