Thomas Laurent, Graduate Student

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

Contact Info:

Office Location:	037 Physics Bldg
Office Phone:	(919)-660-2829
Email Address:

Education:

ANTICIPATED: PhD in Mathematics, Duke University ,		2006
MA in Mathematics, Duke University,		2003
Licence de Mathematiques, Universite Paris 7 Denis Diderot,		2000

Specialties:

Analysis
Applied Math

Research Interests:

I am interested in non-local partial differential equation.

I have studied an hyperbolic equation with time delay and proven that the solution has some remarkable parabolic behavior.

I have proven some existence results about a class of non-local non-linear partial differential equation which describe aggregation phenomena. These type of aggregation equations have been used for modeling population dynamic and aggregation of nano particles. They also give an approximation to backward-porous media equation.

Recent Publications

1. T. Laurent, B. Rider, M.C. Reed, Parabolic Behavior of a Hyperbolic Delay Equation, SIAM J. Mathematical Analysis (Accepted, 2006)