| J. Nathan Kutz Professor and Chair of Applied Mathematics |
| Address: |
University of Washington Department of Applied Mathematics Box 352420 Seattle, WA 98195-2420 USA |
| Phone: | 206-685-3029 |
| Fax: | 206-685-1440 |
| E-mail: |
kutz@amath.washington.edu |
| web: |
www.amath.washington.edu/~kutz |
| Office: | Guggenheim 414B |
| Curriculum Vitae: | postscript and
pdf |
Numerical methods and scientific computing, dynamical systems, bifurcation theory, linear and nonlinear wave propagation, perturbation and asymptotic methods, nonlinear analysis, variational methods, soliton theory, nonlinear optics, mode-locked lasers, Bose-Einstein condensation.
| Ph.D. 1994 |
Northwestern University Department of Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics Advisor: William L. Kath Dissertation: Pulse Propagation in Nonlinear Optical Fibers using Phase-Sensitive Amplifiers (49 pages of two-column postscript) |
| B.S. 1990 |
University of Washington Physics and Mathematics |
| Professor (9/05-present) and Chair (7/07-present): |
Department of Applied Mathematics |
| Associate Professor (9/01-8/05): |
University of
Washington , Seattle, WA |
| Assistant Professor (9/98-8/01): |
|
| Visiting Research Fellow (9/95-8/97): |
Program in
Applied and Computational Mathematics Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
| Visiting Fellow (9/95-8/97): |
Mathematical Sciences Research Center
and Division of Theoretical Physics AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ |
| Postdoctoral Fellow (9/94-8/95): |
Institute for
Mathematics and its Applications School of Mathematics , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| 3/08-6/08: |
Department of Mathematics University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway |
| 1/07-3/07: |
Department of Physics Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy |
| 3/06-5/06: |
Department of Mathematics University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom |
| 7/04-12/04: |
Department of Physics University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| 4/03-6/03: |
Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University , New York City, NY |
| 6/98-8/98: |
Optique Nonlineaire Theorique University Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium |
| 3/98-5/98: |
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni Rome, Italy |
| 9/97-2/98: |
Department of Electronic Engineering Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China |
| 7/96-8/96: |
Department of Mathematics Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
| June 2007 |
Applied Mathematics Boeing Award of Excellence in Teaching |
| 2001-2006 |
National Science Foundation CAREER Award |
| 2001-2002 |
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation: Career
Enhancement Fellowship |
| March 2000 |
Department of Applied Mathematics Excellence in Teaching Award |
| 1998-2000 |
3M Corporation New Faculty Award |
| 1997-1999 |
Hughes Research Laboratories Research Award |
| 1997-1998 |
NSF International Research Fellow Award |
| 1997-1999 |
NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 1995-1997 |
NSF Mathematical Sciences University-Industry
Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 1991-1994 |
DOD-National Defense Science and
Engineering Graduate Fellowship |
| PhD 2004 |
Sarah Hewitt Thesis: Dynamics and Stability of Periodic Spatial Patterns in the Optical Parametric Oscillator |
| PhD 2005 |
Edward Farnum Thesis: Stability and Dynamics of Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Optical Materials |
| PhD 2008 |
Brandon Bale Thesis: Modeling the stability and dynamics in mode-locked fiber lasers |
| A98-S01 |
Brandon Bale (ACMS and Mary Gates Fellow) |
| S99-S01 |
Derek Bentsen (ACMS and Mary Gates Fellow) |
| S00-S01 |
Kristin Spaulding (ACMS and Mary Gates Fellow) Honors Thesis: Modelocking in an optical fiber ring lasers |
| A00-S02 |
Brandon Warner (ACMS) |
| W01-S02 |
Matthew Patterson (ACMS and Mary Gates Fellow) Honors Thesis: Coupled Multi-species Bose-Einstein Condensates in Generalized Periodic Potentials |
| A01-Su02 |
Jennifer O'Neil (ACMS and Mary Gates Fellow) Honors Thesis: Pulse Dynamics in Actively Modelocking Fiber Optic Lasers |
| W02-A02 |
Dutch Meyer (ACMS) |
| A00-S03 |
Karen Intrachat (ACMS and Mary Gates Fellow) |
| W03-S03 |
Noel Fitzgerald (ACMS/Chemistry and Mary Gates Fellow) Honors Thesis: Laser-Induced Plasmas: Dynamics in Air |
| W03-S04 |
Leslie Butson (ACMS) |
| A03-S06 |
Joshua Proctor (Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
and English and Mary Gates Fellow) |
| S04-Su05 |
Braxton Osting (Mathematics and Mary Gates Fellow) Honors Thesis: Stability and dynamics of transverse field structures in the optical parametric oscillator near resonance detuning |
| S05-Su06 |
N. Hawk Berry (Physics and Mary Gates Fellow) |
| S04-S07 |
Kimberlee Shish (Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and Mary Gates Fellow) |
| W06-S07 |
Joel Nishimura (Mathematics and Mary Gates Fellow) Honors Thesis: Stability and interactions of transverse field structures in optical parametric oscillators |
| S07-S08 |
Jonathan Tu (Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
and Mathematics and Mary Gates Fellow) |
| S07- |
Hannah Hedeen (Electrical Engineering
and Mary Gates Fellow) |
| S07- |
Colin McGrath (ACMS
and Physics) |
| S07- |
Beth Carey (Civil Engineering) |
| S08- |
Simon Hatchey (Mathematics) |
| July 2008 |
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| April 2008 |
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway |
| February 2008 |
State University of New York at Buffalo,
Buffalo, NY |
| January 2007 |
University of Sydney,
Sydney, Australia |
| December 2006 |
Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont, CA |
| December 2006 |
University of California,
Merced, CA |
| October 2006 |
Oxford University,
Oxford, United Kingdom |
| September 2006 |
Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ |
| September 2006 |
Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY |
| September 2006 |
New Jersey Institute of Technology,
Newark, NJ |
| June 2006 |
University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO |
| March 2006 |
University of Surrey,
Guildford, United Kingdom |
| February 2006 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Boston, MA |
| February 2006 |
Boston University,
Boston, MA |
| September 2005 |
Weierstrass-Institut fur
Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik,
Berlin, Germany |
| September 2005 |
Max Planck Institut fur Physik komplexer Systeme,
Dresden, Germany |
| December 2004 |
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| September 2004 |
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| August 2004 |
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| February 2004 |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
| February 2004 |
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
| January 2004 |
University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| July 2003 |
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand |
| July 2003 |
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| July 2003 |
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| April 2002 |
Columbia University, New York, NY |
| April 2001 |
nLight Photonics Corporation, Seattle, WA |
| March 2001 |
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| December 2000 |
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China |
| December 2000 |
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| December 2000 |
University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| September 2000 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA |
| September 2000 |
Brown University, Providence, RI |
| June 2000 |
Corning Incorporated, Opto-Electronics Division,
Sommerville, NJ |
| February 2000 |
Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
| December 1999 |
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| March 1999 |
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
| February 1999 |
Applied Mathematics, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA |
| January 1999 |
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada |
| November 1998 |
Applied Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| October 1998 |
University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| August 1998 |
Institut fur Theoretische Physik,
Dusseldorf, Germany |
| May 1998 |
Universita degli Studi di Roma ``La Sapienza'',
Roma, Italy |
| April 1998 |
Pirelli, Division of Photonics Research, Milan, Italy |
| March 1998 |
Universita degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy |
| March 1998 |
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy |
| January 1998 |
Tyco Submarine Systems Ltd., Holmdel, NJ |
| December 1997 |
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China |
| November 1997 |
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| March 1997 |
Bell Laboratories,
Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ |
| February 1997 |
University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| February 1997 |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| February 1997 |
Harvey-Mudd College, Claremont, CA |
| February 1997 |
Texas A&M, College Station, TX |
| February 1997 |
University of Delaware, Newark, DE |
| February 1997 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY |
| November 1996 |
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ |
| October 1996 |
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
| April 1996 |
Brown University, Providence, RI |
| February 1996 |
International Submarine and Lightwave Systems,
Holmdel, NJ |
| November 1995 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
| October 1995 |
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
| October 1995 |
College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ |
| April 1995 |
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications,
Minneapolis, MN |
| October 1995 |
AT&T Bell Labs Mathematical Sciences Research Center,
Murray Hill, NJ |
| July 1995 |
3M Computational Science Center, St. Paul, MN |
| October 1994 |
AT&T Bell Labs Division of Theoretical Physics,
Murray Hill, NJ |
| September 1994 |
Honeywell Technology Center, Minneapolis, MN |
| April 1994 |
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL |