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Brian Spencer
Professor Department of Mathematics Mathematics Building, Room 319 University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260-2900
email: spencerb buffalo.edu
web: www.math.buffalo.edu/~spencerb tel: (716) 645-8805 fax: (716) 645-5039 office hours |
Research: applied mathematics of materials science phenomena
scientific areas of
interest: crystal growth, elasticity, phase
transformations, chemical thermodynamics, fluid
mechanics, strained solid films,
solidification, diffusion, contact
angles, dendrites, surface energy
effects, anisotropy, facetting.
mathematical areas of interest: free boundary and moving boundary problems, continuum mechanics, morphological instability, pattern formation, differential equations, integral equations, perturbation methods, singular perturbations, numerical methods, spectral methods, finite difference methods, numerical stability, bifurcation and stability, energy minimization, variational calculus.
mathematical areas of interest: free boundary and moving boundary problems, continuum mechanics, morphological instability, pattern formation, differential equations, integral equations, perturbation methods, singular perturbations, numerical methods, spectral methods, finite difference methods, numerical stability, bifurcation and stability, energy minimization, variational calculus.
PublicationsMentoring and Service:
Applied Mathematics at UB
Associate Editor, Journal
of Engineering Mathematics
Undergraduate Team Project Mentor for the NSF CSUMS sponsored URGE Program at UB
Team members (Calvin Holic, Josh Lauzier, Daniel Rider, John Susice), Jan 2011-Dec 2011.
PhD student Saleem Ahmed defended in June 2011.
Currently supervising PhD student Garry Halliwell.
Something Different:Undergraduate Team Project Mentor for the NSF CSUMS sponsored URGE Program at UB
Team members (Calvin Holic, Josh Lauzier, Daniel Rider, John Susice), Jan 2011-Dec 2011.
PhD student Saleem Ahmed defended in June 2011.
Currently supervising PhD student Garry Halliwell.