Email
cjlarsen@wpi.edu
Office
Kaven Hall 108
Affiliated Department or Office
Mathematical Sciences
Education
BS Physics Carnegie Mellon University 1989
JD University of Maryland 1992
MS Applied Mathematics Carnegie Mellon University 1994
PhD Mathematics Carnegie Mellon University 1996

The evolution of defects in materials present particularly interesting mathematical challenges. My main goals are to improve mathematical models, and advance the mathematical methods for studying them.

Recent online research talk: https://www.birs.ca/events/2019/5-day-workshops/19w5207/videos/watch/201903041132-Larsen.html

 

Research Interests
Partial Differential Equations
Calculus of Variations
Geometric Measure Theory
Applications to Materials Science, particularly Fracture Mechanics
Professional Highlights & Honors
Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Bristol
The Leverhulme Trust (UK), 2011
Principal Investigator, 2005-present
National Science Foundation
Visiting Scholar/Professor/Associate
University of Paris XIII, University of Paris IX, Caltech, Oxford, Brown
Lecturer, Park City Mathematics Institute - "variational methods for materials science"
Institute for Advanced Study, 2014

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