Prof. Dr. Kevin Ronald Zumbrun

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPartial differential equations,Mathematics in fluid mechanics
KeywordsShock waves, Spectral & nonlinear stability, Pseudodifferential operators, Evans function, Hyperbolic PDEs

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityBloomington
InstitutionIndiana University
InstituteDepartment of Mathematics
Homepagehttps://math.indiana.edu/about/faculty/zumbrun-kevin.html

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Heinrich FreistühlerUniversität Konstanz, Konstanz
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2025

Programme(s)

2025Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Zumbrun is well known internationally for his outstanding research on nonlinear evolutionary partial differential equations. He has made important contributions to the stability theory of nonlinear waves such as shock waves and water waves. During his stay in Germany, he intends to extend his stability theory to systems of conservation, and study shock profiles in moment systems of extended thermodynamics.