Curriculum Vitae of Marta Lewicka

Afﬁliation University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mathematics, (email) [email protected] 139 University Place, (url) http://www.math.pitt.edu/~lewicka Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Nationality Polish, American Research Interests Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, Calculus of Variations, Differential Geometry, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Systems of Conservation Laws, Reaction-Diffusion Equations, Nonlinear Analysis Appointments 2011 - present Associate Professor with Tenure Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh 2010 - 2011 Associate Professor with Tenure School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 2010 - 2011 Assistant Professor - Tenure granted May 2011 Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick 2005 - 2009 Assistant Professor School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 2002 - 2005 L.E. Dickson Instructor, Department of Mathematics, and Research Associate, Department of Astrophysics, University of Chicago 2000 - 2002 Post-doctoral Fellow Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany Long-term visiting positions 05 - 07/2013 Giovanni Prodi Chair in Nonlinear Analysis, University of Wuerzburg, Germany 2009 - 2010 Long term visitor at Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, Minneapolis (Thematic Year on Complex Fluids and Complex Flows) 2008 - 2009 Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University 05 - 06/2002 EU Post-doctoral Fellow SISSA, Trieste, Italy Education 2000 Ph.D. Mathematical Analysis, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy, Thesis: Topics in the Stability of Systems of Conservation Laws. Advisor: A. Bressan. 1998 B.Sc. Computer Science, Polytechnic of Czestochowa, Poland, Faculty of Computer Science. Thesis: Recursive Algorithms in Computer Graphics. Advisor: H. Piech. 1996 M.Sc. and B.Sc. Mathematics, University of Gdansk, Poland, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics. Thesis: Multivalued Poincare Operator. Advisor: L. Gorniewicz.

1 Grants 2009 - 2014 NSF CAREER award DMS-0846996 (Principal Investigator) “Thin Shells - Problems in Nonlinear Elasticity and Fluid Dynamics” (400K$) 2007 - 2012 NSF grant DMS-0707275 (Principal Investigator) “Dynamics and Stable Structures in Some Nonlinear PDEs” (150K$) 2007 - 2009 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship (90K$) This is the University of Minnesota’s Provost special scholarship awarded to about 10 junior faculty members of the University. It consists of a research grant in each of two years and a research leave in the second year 2003 - 2007 NSF grant DMS-0306201 (Principal Investigator) “Well Posedness of Systems of Conservation Laws Near Solutions Containing Large Waves” (80K$) Other grants and awards 2013 NSF grant DMS-1266188 (Principal Investigator) ”International Workshop Advances in Nonlinear Science” (16K $) 2010 - 2015 NSF PIRE (Senior Personnel) “Science at the Triple Point Between Mathematics, Mechanics and Materials Science” (6 million $) 2010 - 2013 Polish Ministry of Education grant KBN-N N201 547438 (co-PI) “Mathematical Aspects of Fluid Mechanics” (400K PLN) 2010 IMA “Hot Topics Workshop” (co-PI) “Strain induced shape formation: analysis, geometry and material science” (30K$) 2008 NSF grant DMS-0801551 (co-PI) “Eleventh Riviere-Fabes Symposium on Analysis and PDE” (19,5K$) 2004 A special teaching award from the Department of Biology, U. of Chicago for designing and supervising an experimental undergraduate course sequence on Mathematical Biology.

Teaching

(i) Student and postdoc advising 2012 - present Advising PhD student Pablo Ochoa (University of Pittsburgh) 2008 - 2012 Advising PhD student Hui Li (U. of Minnesota). Final defense: April 20, 2012. Thesis: ‘Topics in the Mathematical Theory of Nonlinear Elasticity’

2012 - present supervisory committee member for PhD student Jeremy Trageser (U. of Lincoln, NE) 2006 - present PhD Final Exam Member: Cheng Yu (University of Pittsburgh), John Gemmer (U of Arizona) PhD Final Exam Member for: Haiying Wang, Fang Li, Linlin Su (U. Minnesota) PhD Oral Exam Member for: Walter Rusin, Lu Li, Hui Li, Ivan Merev (University of Minnesota),

2012 Advising PhD student Soheil Malekzadeh (University of Pittsburgh) 2011 - 2012 Initial advisor for PhD student Yong Li (U of Pittsburgh) 2009 - 11 Initial advisor for Ph.D. students: E. Gunawan, G. Jaramillo, J. Leifeld (U of Minnesota) 2009-11 Mentoring a postdoc Pawel Konieczny (Carnegie Mellon University and IMA) 2007 - 08 Mentoring a postdoc Mohammadreza Raooﬁ (now at Shiraz University, Iran) 2006 - 08 Initial advisor for Ph.D. student Qixuan Wang (University of Minnesota) 1999 Supervision of a Masters Thesis in Mathematical Analysis of a student Oliverio Alvarez, International Center for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy)

2 (ii) REU Courses Summer 2005, 2004 Control Theory and Hamilton-Jacobi Equations (University of Chicago) Summer 2003 Topological Degree and Applications (University of Chicago) These were 2 week long intensive courses, followed by about 30 (preselected) local undergraduates, with the scope of rigorously introducing them to the given topics. (iii) Undergraduate courses and practice sessions Fall 2013 Introduction to Number Theory (Pittsburgh) Spring 2013 Introduction to Analysis, Math 420 (Pittsburgh) Fall 2010 Calculus I for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Math 151 (Rutgers) - 6 sections Fall 2009 Differentiation and Applications, Math 1371 (Minnesota) - 3 sections Fall 2005 Dynamical Systems and Chaos, Math 5535 (Minnesota) Fall 2005 Putnam and North-Central Competition weekly practice sessions (MInnesota) Spring 2005 Functional Analysis, Math 272 (Chicago) Fall 2004 Topics in Mathematical Biology, Math 215, a directed reading course (Chicago) Spring 2003 Introductory Mathematical Biology, Math 214 (Chicago) I designed and supervised, in collaboration with the Biology Department, the experimental Mathematical Biology sequence consisting of three learning components: lectures, weekly supplementary discussion sessions (supervision of 2 biology teaching assistants), and a students’ conference at the end of the course. Fall 2002 Advanced Engineering, Math 200 (Chicago) Fall 2001 Mathematical Analysis III (University of Leipzig, Germany) Spring 2001 Mathematical Analysis II (University of Leipzig, Germany) Fall 2000 Mathematical Analysis I (University of Leipzig, Germany)

(iv) Graduate courses and seminars Summer 2013 Graduate mini-course (8hr lecture + 2 hr recitations) at the IMA 2013 Graduate Program ’Flow, Geometric Motion, Deformation and Mass Transport in Physiological Processes’ (IMA, Minneapolis, MN) Summer 2013 Graduate semester seminar, joint with A. Schloemerkemper (Univ. of Wuerzburg, Germany) ’Giovanni Prodi Seminar: Variational Multiscale Methods in Material Science’ Spring 2013 Weakly graduate seminar on ’Game Theory’, joint with J. Manfredi (Pittsburgh) Fall 2012 Graduate mini-course (16 hours + exam) at the University of Warsaw, Dec 2012 - Jan 2013 “Topics in the Calculus of Variations” http://ssdnm.mimuw.edu.pl/wyklady Fall 2012 Graduate Real Analysis 3 (Pittsburgh) http://www.math.pitt.edu/~lewicka/2303/real.html Spring 2012 Topics in Calculus of Variations (Pittsburgh) http://www.math.pitt.edu/~lewicka/3020/calcvar_topics_2012.html Fall 2011 Graduate Real Analysis (Pittsburgh) http://www.math.pitt.edu/~lewicka/2301/real.html Spring 2011 graduate seminar on PDEs and Applications (Rutgers), joint with Y. Li, N. Sesum and Z. Han Spring 2009 working group on Rigidity of Thin Structures (CMU), http://www.math.cmu.edu/CNA/ Spring 2008 graduate seminar on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, coordinated jointly with B. Cockburn and H. Stolarski (Civil Engineering Dept), attended by students from Math and Civil Engineering Departments (Minnesota), 2007-08 Functional Analysis, Math 8801-02, (Minnesota) http://www.math.umn.edu/~lewicka/8801-2/functional.html 2006-07 Real Analysis, Math 8601-02 (Minnesota), http://www.math.umn.edu/~lewicka/8601-2/real.html Spring 2004 Stability of multidimensional shocks (Northwestern University)

3 Spring 2003 Advances in the theory of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws (University of Chicago) Spring 2002 A series of talks on error bounds for the Glimm scheme (Univ. of Freiburg, Germany)

Conference and seminar organizing 2012 - present University of Pittsburgh Colloquium Chair http://www.math.pitt.edu/~lewicka/COLLOQUIUM_12/Coll_2012.html 2011 - present University of Pittsburgh “PDE and Analysis Seminar” organizer, with D. Wang and P. Hajlasz http://www.math.pitt.edu/~lewicka/PDE_seminar/PDE_Anal_sem_2012_Fall.html

Spring 2014 “2014 Theme semester on Convex Integration and Analysis at the University of Pittsburgh” This is a semester-long program, coorganized with P. Hajlasz, J. Manfredi and R. Pakzad concerning some modern questions in contemporary Mathematical Analysis. It consists of 5 invited mini-courses at graduate level, and an international workshop. Dec 7-10, 2013 SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (Orlando, FL) (member of the Scientific Committee) http://www.siam.org/meetings/pd13/index.php June 9-12, 2013 Four Minisymposia ”From Microscopic to Continuum: Variational Multiscale Methods”, (16 invited speakers) co-organized with A. Schloemerkemper at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science: http://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=16333 Spring 2013 “2013 Theme semester on Game Theory and PDEs at the University of Pittsburgh” This is a semester-long program, coorganized with X. Chen, J. Manfredi and D. Wang, concerning the relation between Game Theory and PDES. It consists of 4 invited mini-courses at graduate level plus an intermnational workshop. http://www.math.pitt.edu/~lewicka/Semester_GamesPDE_13/semester_GamesPDE.html March 14-16, 2013 International Workshop “Advances in Nonlinear Science” The workshop is held in the framework of 2013 Theme Semester on Game Theory and PDEs at the University of Pittsburgh.The topics ranged from the classical regularity theory, to the deterministic game theoretic interpretation of motion by mean curvature and other PDE, to random tug-of-war games, stochastic homogenization, viscosity solutions, numerical solutions of non-linear PDE, and symmetrization. There were about 40 participants. http://www.math.pitt.edu/~lewicka/Semester_GamesPDE_13/adv_non_sci_workshop.html June 21-29, 2012 The First PIRE Summer School: “Science at the Triple Point Between Mathematics, Mechanics and Materials” http://www.ima.umn.edu/2011-2012/SW6.21-29.12/ This 2 week long program, coorganized with R. Kohn, M. Luskin and S. Muller, consisted of four 5hr tutorials (plus 2 excercise sessions for each segment) and invited lectures. July 2-7, 2012 A minisymposium: ” Geometric and quantitative rigidity” at the 6th European Congress of Mathematics in Krakow http://www.6ecm.pl/en May 16-20, 2011 IMA Hot Topics Workshop “Metric induced shape formation: analysis and geometry” http://www.ima.umn.edu/2010-2011/SW5.16-20.11/ This 1 week long workshop, coorganized with S. Venkataramani, is devoted to analytical aspects of morphogenesis, arising as a consequence of the inelastic effects associated with growth, swelling, shrinkage or plasticity. There are about 50 participants and we hope to stimulate interactions between applied mathematicians, physicists, analysts and geometers. July 13-31, 2009 IMA Summer Program on Conservation Laws and Applications. http://www.ima.umn.edu/2008-2009/SP7.13-31.09/ This 3 week long summer program, coorganized with A.Bressan, G.Q. Chen and D. Wang, brought together some of the world’s leading experts in the field of conservation laws, presenting the most significant theoretical advances and discussing applications. There were more than 120 participants. A conference proceedings volume has been

4 edited by the organizers, to be published by Springer. 2007 - 11 Rivere-Fabes Symposium, University of Minnesota. http://www.math.umn.edu/conferences/riv_fabes/ The Symposiums take place each April since 1998. The organizers invite distinguished leaders in diversiﬁed areas of Math Analysis, to present two-hour talks and other renowned specialists alongside with young researchers to give one-hour talks. The 2007-11 Symposia were very well attended; each time about 50 mathematicians participated, with more than half being graduate students. Fall 2007 University of Minnesota PDE Seminar organizer and Chair.

Editor • Associate Editor of SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analalysis • IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications: Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Applications. (153) Springer Science and Business Media, LLC, New York, NY.

Other professional activities 2012 - 2013 member of the Association of Women in Mathematics Programs Committee 2011, 12 Proposal Reviewer for Rustaveli National Science Foundation, which is the main research agency in Georgia 2008, 09, 10, 11, 13 Panelist for the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences 2007 Proposal Reviewer for FQRNT: the research grant agency of Quebec (Canada) Referee for: Archives for Rational Mechanics and Applications, SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, SIAM Journal Control and Optimization, Indiana Univ. Math. Journal, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Communications in PDE, Journal of Differential Equations, Memoirs of AMS, Nonlinearity, Physica D., Proceedings of the Royal Society A, and many others. Reviewer for: Math Reviews

U of Pittsburgh assignments 2013 - 2015 member of the University Senate (University of Pittsburgh) July 2012 - 2015 member of the Faculty Assembly to represent the Natural Sciences (Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences)

U of Minnesota assignments 2009 Graduate Studies Committee 2007, 08, 09, 10, 11 Riviere-Fabes Symposium Committee 2006, 07 Graduate Studies Qualifying Exams Committee 2005 Putnam Exam Committee

Rutgers U assignments 2010 Graduate Studies Admission Committee

5 Research talks and seminars 2013 tutorial at the SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (Orlando, FL) plenary talk at 13th Conference on Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences (Poland) plenary talk at Young Mathematicians Conference (Columbus, Ohio) a minisymposium talk at SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (Philadelphia) University of Wuerzburg, Germany (colloquium) IMA 2013 Summer Graduate Program (July 15-Aug 2, 2013) ’Flow, Geometric Motion, Deformation and Mass Transport in Physiological Processes’ - graduate 10hr minicourse plenary talk at the workshop ”Differential Geometry and Continuum Mechanics” in Edinburgh in June 2013, Penn State (two talks: colloquium and seminar) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University University of Gdansk, Poland (colloquium) 2012 University of Warsaw (Poland) - graduate 16 hr minicourse, UC Santa Barbara, Stanford University, University of Virginia, ICERM Semester Program Workshop: ”Heterostructured Nanocyrstalline Materials” at Brown University, University of Lincoln, Nebrasca (colloquium) GAMM workshop invited speaker (Essen, Germany) 2011 IMA Hot Topics Workshop ’Strain Induced Shape Formation: Analysis, Geometry and Materials Science’, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France), Workshop ’Pattern Formation and Multiscale Phenomena in Materials’ at Oxford University (UK), Max Plack Institute for Mathematics (Leipzig, Germany), AMS Special session on PDE’s and Control (Lincoln, Nebrasca), AMS Special session ’Asymptotic Behavior for Nonlinear Evolution Equations’ (Lincoln, Nebrasca), 3 talks at SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (San Diego) University of Duisburg - Essen (Germany) 2010 Joint PDE seminar of Brown and Boston University, U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Rutgers University, Meeting ’Some mathematical problems of material science: effect of multiple scales and extreme aspect ratios’ Banff International Research Station (Canada), AMS Special Session ‘Nonlinear Analysis and Geometry’ (Syracuse), University of Arizona, 2 talks at AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Diff. Equations and Applications (Dresden, Germany), Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Seminar (U of Minnesota), University of Warsaw, Indiana University, BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (Bilbao, Spain), 2009 Meeting on “Material Theories” Oberwolfach (Germany), University of Chicago, SISSA (Trieste, Italy), Paris 11 (Orsay), Paris 6 (Pierre et Marie Curie), Iowa State University, University of Houston, AMS meeting (Worcester, MA), University of Indiana (Bloomington), Meeting ’Energy-Driven Systems’ Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh), International Conference on Nonlinear Parabolic Problems (Bedlewo, Poland), University of Pittsburgh, Instituto de Matematicas y Fisica Fundamental CSIC (Madrid, Spain),

6 IMA Summer Program on Conservation Laws and Applications (Minneapolis), 63rd Midwest PDE seminar (Purdue), SIAM PDE Conference (Miami), 2008 Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic), University of Wisconsin, CNA Summer School (Pittsburgh), Georgia Tech, Fields Institute (Toronto), University of Pittsburgh, Vanderbilt University, University of Warsaw, 2007 University of Pittsburgh, First Joint AMS-PTM Meeting in Warsaw (Poland), 2006 Workshop on Reaction-diffusion and Free Boundary Problems in Banff (Canada), University of Florence (Italy), 2005 University of Indiana (Bloomington), Northwestern University, UC Davis 2004 University of Minnesota, North Carolina State University, Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland), University of Warsaw (Poland), AMS meeting (Houston) 2003 University of Warsaw (Poland), University of Houston, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) ’Leggi di conservazione’ conference, SISSA (Trieste, Italy) First Chicago Area PDE Workshop, Northwestern University 2002 University of Chicago, University of Houston, UC Davis, Tulane University, Northwestern University, Georgetown University 2001 Max Planck Institute (Leipzig, Germany), University of Freiburg (Germany), University of Darmstadt (Germany) 2000 Max Planck Institute (Leipzig, Germany), Ecole Normal Superieur (Lyon, France) 8th International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems, Magdeburg, Germany, 1999 SISSA (Trieste, Italy)

Undergraduate and educational talks and activities 2013 Ohio State University: Young Mathematicians Conference (plenary speaker) http://www.ymc.osu.edu/ Penn State: Pizza Seminar Duquesne University (Pittsburgh): Undergraduate Colloquium 2012 Talk and panel discussion at undergraduate research seminar at University of Lincoln, Nebrasca, A networking event with invited speaker for Women in Math organized at University of Pittsburgh 2011 Two networking events for Women in Math coorganized with A. Cohen (Rutgers) Rutgers University: Faculty Research Perspectives Seminar,

7 Rutgers University: Mathematical Careers and Ideas, 2010 Stevens Institute of Technology, Montclaire State University, University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis), University of Minnesota Duluth, University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program (UMTYMP)