Oliver R Diaz Espinosa, Visiting Assistant Professor

Please note: Oliver has left the Mathematics department at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	029B Physics
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.math.duke.edu/~odiaz

Office Hours:

Tentatively T-Th 13:00-14:00

Education:

PhD	University of Texas at Austin	2006
MS	CINVESTAV-IPN	1995
BS	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	1993

Specialties:

Probability
Applied Math

Research Interests: Dynamical Systems, Probability

My research deals with the study of limit theorems of processes that explain the macroscopic behavior of systems appearing in applications: water waves, dynamical systems, biology.

Areas of Interest:

Probability
Analysis
Dynamical Systems

Keywords:

Functional limit theorems, Random dynamical systems, ergodic theory.

Recent Publications

1. with A. de Bouard, W. Craig, P. Guyenne and C. Sulem, Long wave expansions for water waves over random topography, Nonlinearity, vol. 21 no. 9 (2008), pp. 2143--2178
2. with de la Llave, Renormalization of arbitrary weak noises for one-dimensional critical dynamical systems: summary of results and numerical explorations, in Holomorphic dynamics and renormalization., Fields Inst. Commun., vol. 53 (2008), pp. 331--359, American Mathematical Society
3. with with. de la Llave, R, Renormalization and central limit theorem for critical dynamical systems with weak external noise, J. Modern Dynamics, vol. 1 no. 3 (2007), pp. 477-543