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Robert Sachs
- Professor
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Robert Sachs
- Job Title
- Professor
- Phone Number
- Office Number
- Exploratory Hall, Room 4211, MSN 3F2
Affiliations
Departments
- Mathematical Sciences Department (Instructional Faculty)
Education
Ph.D., 1980, Courant Institute (New York University)
B.A., 1976, Harvard University, Applied Mathematics (summa cum laude)
Current Research
Nonlinear partial differential equations, especially integrable and near-integrable Hamiltonian systems
Education of gifted mathematics students
Selected Publications
Global existence of smooth solutions and stabiity of solitary waves for a generalized Boussinesq equation, Comm. Math. Phys. 188, 1988, pp. 15-29
On the integrable variant of the Boussinessq system: Paninleve property, rational soultions, a related many-body system and equivalence with the AKNS hierachy, Physica D 30, 1988, pp. 1-27
On the transerse instability of solitary waves in the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation, with J. Alexander and R. Pego, Phys, Letters A, 1997
On the stability of KdV Multi-Solitons, with J. Maddocks, Comm. Pure and Applied Math. 46 (1993), pp. 867-901
Constrained Variational Principles and Stability in Hamiltonian Systems, in Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems, with J. Maddocks (1995), H.S. Dumas, K.R. Meyer, and D.S. Schmidt, eds., Springer-Verlag, pp. 231-264.
Awards
National Science Foundation Grants
AMS Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mason's David J. King Award (2012)
MD-DC-VA Section of the MAA John Smith Teaching Award (2011)
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Robert Sachs
- Job Title
- Professor
- Phone Number
- Office Number
- Exploratory Hall, Room 4211, MSN 3F2