CURRICULUM VITAE
Roberto Camassa

Present Position:

Professor of Mathematics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Phillips Hall, CB #3250
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3250

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Selected Publications

1. "Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Dark Solitons", (with S. Burtsev), J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B 14 (1997), 1782-1787.

2. "Long Time Evolution Equations for Shallow Water with a Varying Bottom", (with D. Holm and D. Levermore), J. Fluid Mech. 349 (1997), 173-189.

3. "Layer-mean Quantities, Local Conservation Laws, and Vorticity", (with D. Levermore), Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 (1997), 650-653.

4. "A Melnikov Method of Homoclinic Orbits With Many Pulses", (with G. Kovacic and S. K. Tin), Arch. Rational Mech. and Anal. 143 (1998), 105-193.

5. "The Global Geometry of the Slow Manifold in the Lorenz-Krishnamurthy Model", (with S. K. Tin), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 53 (1996), 3251-3264.

6. "Long Internal Waves of Finite Amplitude", (with W. Choi), Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 (1996), 1759-1763.

7. "Nonlinear Internal Waves in a Two-Layer Fluid", (with W. Choi), Journal of Fluid Mechanics 313 (1996), 83-103.

8. "Long-Time Effects of Bottom Topography in Shallow Water", (with D. Holm and D. Levermore), Physica D 98 (1996), 258-286.

9. "Solutal Separations Under Centrifugation", (with N. Li, R. E. Ecke, and F. Venneri), Separat. Sci. Tech. 33 (1998) 551-567.

10. "On the Link Between Umbilic Geodesics and Soliton Solutions of Nonlinear PDE's", (with M. Alber, D. Holm, and J. Marsden), Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 450, (1995) 677-692.

11. "On the Geometry of an Atmospheric Slow Manifold", Physica D 84, (1995) 357-397.

12. "The Geometry of Peaked Solitons and Billiard Solutions of a Class of Integrable PDE's", (with M. Alber, D. Holm, and J. Marsden), Letters in Mathematical Physics 32, (1994) 137-151.

13. "Comment On: Do Resonantly Forced Solitary Waves Protect the Fuel Hurricanes?", Phys. Rev. Lett., 72 (1994), 2668.

14. "A New Integrable Shallow Water Equation", (with D. Holm and J. M. Hyman), Advances in Applied Mechanics 31 (1994), 1-33.

15. "An Integrable Shallow Water Equation With Peaked Solitons", (with D. Holm), Phys. Rev. Lett., 71 (1993), 1661-1665.