J. Nathan Kutz Professor and Chair		Rio de Janeiro, August 2008
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
Office:	Guggenheim Hall 414B
Office Hours:	TBA
Other:	Curriculum Vitae and publications

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NONLINEAR WAVES CONFERENCE, ROME, ITALY 2008

WORKSHOP: Multidimensional localized structures, July 18-19, 2008
SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, July 21-24, 2008

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL 2008

EXPLORATION SEMINAR: Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions and Climate Modeling

COURSES 2008-2009:

A08: AMATH 301 - Beginning Scientific Computing
A08: AMATH 581 - Scientific Computing

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Biographical information

Professor Kutz was awarded his baccalaureate degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) in 1990. He then received his doctor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) in 1994. Upon completing his doctorate, Professor Kutz spent the 1994-1995 academic year at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) as a postdoctoral fellow. During the academic years 1995-1997, Professor Kutz was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Applied and Computational Mathematics Program of Princeton University (Princeton, NJ). In addition, he was a visiting member of the Theoretical Physics Division of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and the Mathematics Research Center of AT&T Research (Murray Hill, NJ). Before arriving to the University of Washington, Professor Kutz spent the academic year 1997-1998 as a Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Fall 97-Winter 98), the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni in Rome, Italy (Spring 98), and the Free University of Brussels in Belgium (Summer 98). Since then he has held visiting positions at Columbia University (Spring 03), the University of Sydney (Summer 04-Autumn 04) the University of Surrey (Spring 06), the University of Roma "La Sapienza" (Winter 2007), the University of Bergen (Spring 08), and the Institute of Mathematics Pure and Applied, Rio de Janiero, Brazil (Summer 08).

Professor Kutz is especially interested in a unified approach to applied mathematics which includes modeling, computation and analysis. His area of current interest concerns phenomena in the optical sciences: laser dynamics and modelocking in fiber lasers, soliton propagation and mode-coupling dynamics for optical fiber communications, and pattern formation and stability of optical structures in optical parametric oscillators. Mathematically, the analysis and computation of the above phenomena naturally fall within the context of the methods of contemporary dynamical systems, nonlinear wave propagation, perturbation and asymptotic methods, and bifurcation theory applied to the underlying nonlinear differential equations and partial differential equations.

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