James Nolen, Assistant Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	243 Physics
Office Phone:	919-660-2862
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://math.duke.edu/~nolen/

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• MATH 216.01, APPLIED STOCHASTIC PROC Synopsis

  Physics 119, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• MATH 233.01, ASYMP/PERTUR METHODS Synopsis

  Physics 227, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

Office Hours:

Mondays 2-4, Thursdays 2:30-3:30, or by appointment.

Education:

PhD	University of Texas at Austin	2006
BS	Davidson College	2000

Specialties:

Applied Math
Analysis
Probability

Keywords:

partial differential equations • stochastic processes • asymptotic analysis • applied mathematics

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. J. Nolen, An invariance principle for random traveling waves in one dimension (Submitted, January, 2009) [pdf]
2. J. Nolen and L. Ryzhik, Traveling waves in a one-dimensional heterogeneous medium, Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare -- Analyse Non Lineaire, vol. 26 no. 3 (2009), pp. 1021-1047 [pdf]
3. A. Mellet, J. Nolen, J.-M. Roquejoffre, and L. Ryzhik, Stability of generalized transition fronts, Comm. PDE, vol. 34 no. 6 (2009), pp. 521-552 [pdf]
4. J. Nolen, G. Papanicolaou, O. Pironneau, A Framework for Adaptive Multiscale Methods for Elliptic Problems, SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, vol. 7 (2008), pp. 171-196, SIAM [pdf]
5. J. Nolen and J. Xin, Asymptotic Spreading of KPP Reactive Fronts in Incompressible Space-Time Random Flows, Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare -- Analyse Non Lineaire, vol. 26 no. 3 (2008), pp. 815-839 [pdf]
6. J. Nolen and J. Xin, KPP Fronts in 1D Random Drift, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B, vol. 11 no. 2 (2009) [pdf]