Summer Institute for Mathematics at the University of Washington

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Nathan Kutz

Professor Kutz was awarded his baccalaureate degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) in 1990. He then received his doctor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) in 1994. Upon completing his doctorate, Professor Kutz spent the 1994-1995 academic year at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) as a postdoctoral fellow. During the academic years 1995-1997, Professor Kutz was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Applied and Computational Mathematics Program of Princeton University (Princeton, NJ). In addition, he was a visiting member of the Theoretical Physics Division of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and the Mathematics Research Center of AT&T Research (Murray Hill, NJ). Before arriving to the University of Washington, Professor Kutz spent the academic year 1997-1998 as a Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Fall 97-Winter 98), the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni in Rome, Italy (Spring 98), and the Free University of Brussels in Belgium (Summer 98). Professor Kutz is especially interested in a unified approach to applied mathematics which includes modeling, computation and analysis. His area of current interest concerns phenomena in the optical sciences: laser dynamics and modelocking in fiber lasers, soliton propagation and mode-coupling dynamics for optical fiber communications, and pattern formation and stability of optical structures in optical parametric oscillators. Mathematically, the analysis and computation of the above phenomena naturally fall within the context of the methods of contemporary dynamical systems, nonlinear wave propagation, perturbation and asymptotic methods, and bifurcation theory applied to the underlying nonlinear differential equations and partial differential equations.

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