Mathew A. Johnson

Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.
BS in Mathematics, minor in Physics, Ball State University, 2005.

Research

I am interested in the existence, stability, and dynamics of nonlinear waves in a variety of partial differential equations that arise in applied mathematics and mathematical physics.

Publications & Preprints

MathSciNet Publication List

Research Profile

Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)

Along with my collaborators Pascal Noble (U. Toulouse), Miguel Rodrigues (U. Rennes), and Kevin Zumbrun (IU), I was honored to receive the 2015 SIAM Activity Group on Analysis of PDE Outstanding Paper Prize.

Teaching

All information for current courses can be found on Canvas.

Current Courses: None (booo admin duties!)

Previous Courses

My Current & Previous Students

Lecture Notes:

• From Math 951 -- Advanced PDE II (Spring 2020)
  • Chapter 3 -- Energy Methods in Parabolic PDE (pdf)
  • Chapter 4 -- Introduction to Fixed Point Methods (pdf)
  • Chapter 5 -- Variational Methods (pdf)
  • Chapter 6 -- Introduction to Semigroup Methods (pdf)
• From 2017 Participating School in Analysis of PDE (Held at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea)
  • Basics of Stability Theory in Nonlinear PDE (pdf)

I have been honored to receive several teaching awards:

• 2020 G. Baley Price Award for Outstanding Teaching of Graduate Mathematics, awarded by KU math grad students.
• 2016 Don & Pat Morrison Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• 2015 Outstanding Honors Course Award, awarded by KU Honors Program.
• 2014 G. Baley Price Award for Outstanding Teaching of Graduate Mathematics, awarded by KU math grad students.