Faculty & Staff

Christopher J. Larsen

Associate Professor

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Office: Stratton Hall, 011
Phone: +1-508-831-6124
Fax: +1-508-831-5824
cjlarsen@wpi.edu

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Educational Background

B.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 1989
J.D., University of Maryland, 1992
M.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 1994
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1996

Research & Teaching Interests

Calculus of variations; partial differential equations; geometric measure theory; image segmentation (computer vision); problems in optimal design; current focus on free discontinuity problems modeling fracture mechanics

IQP Advising Interests

Scientists in court - the role of experts; judicial review of science in policy; scientific evidence and forensics

Recent Publications

G. A. Francfort and C. J. Larsen, Existence and convergence for quasi-static evolution in brittle fracture. Comm. Pure Appl. Math., to appear.
C. J. Larsen, Regularity of components in optimal design problems with perimeter penalization. Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 16 (2003), pp. 17-29.
C. J. Larsen and R. Lui, Uniqueness of steady-states and asymptotic behavior of solutions of a liquid junction model with insulation. Nonlinear Anal. Real World Appl. 3 (2002), pp. 227-241.
A. Chambolle and C. J. Larsen, C^\infty regularity of the free boundary for a two-dimensional optimal compliance problem. Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations (2002), to appear.
C. J. Larsen, Regularity in two-dimensional variational problems with perimeter penalties. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 333 (2001), pp. 261-266.

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Professional Societies/Memberships

American Mathematical Society
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Sigma Xi

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