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Peter J. Sternberg
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Bloomington, IN 47405-7106

(812) 855-6726 (office)
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Fall 2009 Teaching

 

S212 Honors Calculus II

S212 Syllabus

S212 Course Announcements

S212 Homework Assignments

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S212 Exam 1 Review Sheet

S212 Exam 2 Review Sheet

 

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

``Gamma-convergence and the emergence of vortices for Ginzburg-Landau on thin shells and manifolds"

To appear in Calc. of Variations and PDE, joint with Andres Contreras

``On the behavior of a superconducting wire subjected to a constant voltage difference"

To appear in SIAM Applied Math., joint with Jacob Rubinstein and Junghwa Kim

``The resistive state in a superconducting wire: bifurcation from the normal state"

 Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., 195, no. 1, 117-158, (2010), joint with Jacob Rubinstein and Kevin Zumbrun

``Critical points via Gamma convergence: general theory and applications"

J. Euro. Math. Soc., 11, no. 4, 705-753, (2009),  joint with Robert Jerrard

"Formation and stability of phase slip centers in nonuniform wires with currents"

 Physica C, 468, 260-263, (2008), joint with Jacob Rubinstein

"Bifurcation diagram and pattern formation of phase slip centers in superconducting wires driven with electric currents"

Phys. Rev. Lett., 99, 167003, (2007),  joint with Jacob Rubinstein and Qingfeng Ma

"On the first and second variations of a nonlocal isoperimetric problem

 J. Reine Angew. Math., 611, 75-108, (2007), joint with Rustum Choksi

"Supercurrents in networks with constricted junctions"

Physica C, 452, 1-2, 54-60, (2007), joint with Jacob Rubinstein and Gershon Wolansky

"Periodic phase separation: the periodic Cahn-Hilliard and isoperimetric problems"

Interfaces and Free Boundaries, 8, 371-392, (2006), joint with Rustum Choksi

"Elliptic problems on networks with constrictions"

Calculus of Variations, 26, no. 4, 459-487, (2006), joint with Jacob Rubinstein and Gershon Wolansky

"The onset problem for a thin superconducting loop in a large magnetic field"

Asymptotic Analysis, 48, no. 1 / 2, 55-76, (2006), joint with Tien-Tsan Shieh

"Topologically driven local minimizers of the Oseen-Frank energy"

Journal of Mathematical Physics, 46, no. 9, (2005), joint with Yun-hui Kim and Jacob Rubinstein

"Ginzburg-Landau model in thin loops with narrow constrictions"

SIAM J. Appl. Math, 64, no. 6, 2186-2204, (2004), joint with Jacob Rubinstein and Michelle Schatzman

 "Local minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau energy with magnetic field in three dimensions,"

Comm. Math. Phys., 249, no. 3, 549-577, (2004), joint with Robert Jerrard and Alberto Montero

"Local minimizers with vortices to the Ginzburg-Landau system in 3d,"

 C.P.A.M., 57, no. 1, 99-125, (2004),  joint with Alberto Montero and William Ziemer