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Faculty Member

Joy Ko

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

CONTACT INFO

Office: 310 Kassar-Gould House
Phone: (401) 863-7966
Fax: (401) 863-9013
Email:

Mailing Address:

    Mathematics Department
    Box 1917
    Brown University
    Providence, RI 02912

COURSE SCHEDULE

Current Classes

ARCH 2126 (RISD): Designing Forms

M1120: Partial Differential Equations

Fall 2008

Math 1110: Ordinary Differential Equations

Math 0200: Intermediate Calculus (Physics/Engineering)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Analysis

Geometric Partial Differential Equations

Computational Water Waves

Mathematics in Design

BACKGROUND

Education: Ph.D., Courant Institute, NYU, 2004

Curriculum Vitae

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Effect of Vorticity on Steady Water Waves, J. Fluid Mech. 608 (2008), 197-215 with W. Strauss.PDF

Large-Amplitude Steady Rotational Water Waves, Eur. J. Mech. B Fluids 27 (2008), 96-109 with W. Strauss.PDF

Numerical Approximation of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Equation and Finite Time Blowup of Weak Solutions, Math. Comp. 77 (2008), 773-788 with S. Bartels and A. Prohl. PDF

The Construction of a Partially Regular Solution to the Landau-Lifshitz-Glibert Equation in Two Dimensions, Nonlinearity, 18 (2005), no. 6, pp. 2681-2714.PDF

Dynamics of Acute Wound Healing Following Topical rhPDGF Therapy, Journal of American Academy of Dermatology, 52 (2005), no. 3, pp. 213. with VW Li, J. Ma, T. Serena, W. Ennis, V. Driver R. Kirsner, WW. Li.

The Human Forearm Biopsy Model for Acute Wound Healing, Wound Repair and Regeneration 12(2):A18, 2004 as part of the Wound Healing Cooperative Group collaboration