Affiliated Department or Office:
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 research is in applied analysis, and my goals are to improve the mathematical models for these problems, as well as to advance the mathematical methods for studying them.
Email
cjlarsen@wpi.edu
Office Location
Stratton Hall 002C
Contact
Phone:
+1 (508) 8315000 x6124
Research Interests
Research Interests:
Partial Differential Equations
Calculus of Variations
Geometric Measure Theory
Applications to Materials Science, particularly Fracture Mechanics
Scholarly Work
Existence for constrained dynamic Griffith fracture with a weak maximal dissipation condition - 2016
Quasi-static brittle damage evolution in elastic materials with multiple damaged states - 2015
Dynamic cohesive fracture: models and analysis - 2014
A time-discrete model for dynamic fracture based on crack regularization - 2011
Epsilon-stable quasi-static brittle fracture evolution - 2010
Regularity in two-dimensional variational problems with perimeter penalties - 2001
Professional Highlights & Honors
Professional Highlights & Honors:
Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Bristol
2010
The Leverhulme Trust, UK
Principal Investigator, 2005-present
National Science Foundation
Visiting Scholar/Professor/Associate
University of Paris IX, University of Paris XIII, Caltech, Oxford, Brown
Lecturer, Park City Mathematics Institute - "variational methods for materials science"
2014
Institute for Advanced Study