A Brief Bio
I am currently an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Colgate University.
I was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of
Mathematical Sciences at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute from 2010 to 2013. I
obtained my Ph.D. in Mathematics at
I received my Bachelor's degree in
Mathematics from Universidad de Costa Rica in 2002
and my Master's degree in Mathematics from
My current research centers on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,
Homogenization Theory, Mathematical Material Sciences,
and Multiscale Analysis.
"Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork."
Paul Halmos
Recent and Upcoming Activities
- I will give a talk for the PDE Seminar in the Dept. of Mathematics at University of Houston, February 17, 2017.
- I will attend the Mathematical
Congress of the Americas and I will give a talk
for the session "
Applied Math and Computational Science across the Americas". Montreal CA, July 24-28, 2017.
- I attended the Canadian
Mathematical Society Winter Meeting and gave a
talk in the session "Nonlinear
PDEs and Variational Problems". December 3, 2016.
- I gave the talk "Cloaking:
the Mathematics Behind Invisibility" for the NASC
Colloquium Series at Colgate University, December 2,
2016.
- I attended the PIC Math Workshop, Brigham Young University, Provo Utah, May 23-26, 2016.
- I attended the 2016 SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science and gave a talk in the mini-symposium "Mathematical Modeling of Microstructured Materials". Also, together with Miao-jung Yvonne Ou (University of Delaware) and Bacim Alali (Kansas State University), we organized the mini-symposium "Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Nonlocal Models in Materials Science". Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. May 8-12, 2016.
