Daniel Spirn

Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN  55455

Office:

Vincent Hall 112b

Phone:
Dept:
Fax:

(612) 625-1349
(612) 625-2004
(612) 626-2017

Email:

spirn (at) math.umn.edu



Teaching


Fall 2007
Teaching
Math 1372: Calculus II. MW 9:05-9:55 AM.
Math 5075: Math of Options, Futures, and Derivatives I. MW 5:00-6:30 PM.
Office Hours MW 10:00-11:00 AM.
Spring 2008
Course

Math 5076: Math of Options, Futures, and Derivatives II. Website
Office Hours


Minnesota PDE Seminar

Wednesdays, 3:35-4:35 PM.



Research Interests

partial differential equations, applied mathematics.


Recent Conferences

SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations: Energy Methods, Phoenix. December 10-12, 2007.

Workshop on Singularities in PDE and the Calculus of Variations, Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Montreal. July 17-21, 2006.

SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations: Contemporary Developments in Calculus of Variations and PDE, Boston. July 10-12, 2006.

Limit problems in Analysis, Lorentz Center, Leiden. May 1-5 2006.

55th Midwest PDE Seminar, Purdue University, West Lafayette. April 9-10, 2005.

Mathematical Aspects of Material Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo. March 4, 2005.



Publications

Uniqueness of stable Meissner state solutions of the Chern-Simons-Higgs energy  with X. Yan, 18 pages, submitted.

Minimizers of the nonself-dual Chern-Simons-Higgs energy near the first critical field  with X. Yan, 46 pages, to appear in Calc. Var. and PDE. pdf

Linear dispersive decay estimates for vortex sheets with surface tension with D. Wright, 24 pages, submitted.

Symmetric Chern-Simons-Higgs vortices with M. Chen, 24 pages, submitted.

On the energy of superconductors in large and small domains with M. Kurzke, 42 pages, submitted to SIAM J. Math. Anal. pdf

On the energy of a Chern-Simons-Higgs vortex lattice with M. Kurzke, 31 pages, to appear in CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes pdf

Scaling limits of the Chern-Simons-Higgs energy with M. Kurzke, Commun. Contemp. Math. 10 (2008), 1--16. pdf

Gamma-Limit of the nonself-dual Chern-Simons-Higgs energy with M. Kurzke, 47 pages, to appear in J. Funct. Anal. pdf

Dynamics near unstable interfacial fluids with Y. Guo and C. Hallstrom, Comm. Math. Phys. 270 (2007), 635--689. pdf

Refined Jacobian estimates and the Gross-Pitaevsky equations with R. Jerrard, 46 pages, to appear in Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. pdf

Refined Jacobian estimates for the Ginzburg-Landau functional with R. Jerrard,  Indiana U. J. Math. 56 (2007), no. 1, 135--186. pdf

Dynamics Near an Unstable Kirchhoff Ellipse. with Y. Guo and C. Hallstrom, Comm. Math. Phys. 245 (2004), 297--354. pdf

Vortex motion laws for the Schroedinger-Ginzburg-Landau equations, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 43 (2003), 1435--1476. pdf

Vortex dynamics of the full time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 55 (2002), no. 5, 537--581.

A two-dimensional model for slow convection at infinite Marangoni number with A. Thess and B. Juettner, J. Fluid Mech. 331 (1997), 283--312.

Viscous flow at infinite Marangoni number with A. Thess and B. Juettner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (1995), no. 25, 4614--4617.

Last modified on May. 08
Comments and questions to Daniel Spirn (spirn (at) math.umn.edu).