Yekaterina Epshteyn
Professor at the Department of Mathematics
The University of Utah
Numerical and Applied Analysis, Scientific Computing, Applied Mathematics
Brief Version of the Research Statement
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Simons
Fellow in Mathematics 2025, Simons Foundation
About Our DMREF Project
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(Upcoming) Co-Organizer National Science
Foundation (NSF) CompMath
PI Meeting 2025, Salt Lake City, The University of Utah, May 8 - May 9, 2025, Co-organized BIRS Workshop on "Mathematics of Multiscale and Multiphysics Phenomena in Materials Science" at
Banff, Canada, June 16 - June 21, 2024, Watch a presentation given at the IPAM Workshop
"Scale-Bridging Materials Modeling at Extreme Computational Scales" at
UCLA on April 18th, 2023,
Service Statement (Brief Version)
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Department of Mathematics
CV
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Research Interests:
Caleb Albers (Summer 2023 - present)
Batuhan Bayir (Fall 2023 - present, jointly with William Feldman)
Dongwan Kim (Fall 2023 - present)
Yinqian Yu (Fall 2023 - present, jointly with Akil Narayan)
Bohyun Kim
(Fall 2023 - Spring 2024)
Kamala (Chang) Liu
(Fall 2021 - Fall 2022), Currently: China (due to family reasons)
Michael Medvinsky
(Postdoc, Fall 2013 - Spring 2015), Current Position: Research
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, North Carlina State University
Dihan Dai
(Ph.D student Fall 2017 - Spring 2022, co-advised with A. Narayan)
First
Job After Ph.D: Applied Scientist I (L4) at Amazon
Thuong Nguyen
(Ph.D student Fall 2016 - Summer 2022)
First Job After Ph.D: Postdoctoral Fellow at the UT Southwestern Medical Center
Qing Xia
(Ph.D student Fall 2014 - Spring 2019)
First Job After Ph.D: Postdoctoral Researcher at the
Department of Mathematical Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI). Dahlquist Research Fellow at KTH Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kyle Steffen
(Ph.D. student Fall 2013 - Spring 2018, co-advised with K. Golden)
First
Job After Ph.D: Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Austin Oden
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Jason Albright
(Ph.D. student Fall 2011 - Spring 2016), First Job After Ph.D:
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos
National Lab (LANL)
R&D Staff Scientist 2 at the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos
National Lab (LANL)
Group Alumni Jason Albright took part (at around 1:20
in a video) in a video about Los
Alamos National Laboratory
Article about Group Alumni Jason Albright
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Patrick Bardsley
(Ph.D. student Fall 2011 - Spring 2016; co-mentor: F. Guevara Vasquez), First Job After Ph.D:
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Oden
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at
the University of Texas at Austin
Currently: Machine Learning Engineer at Cirrus Logic
Gustav Ludvigsson
(Currently Ph.D. student at Uppsala University under Prof. Gunilla
Kreiss. Collaboration on a joint research project in 2016 -
2017, and a visiting Ph.D student in Spring 2017)
Simon Sticko
(Ph.D. student at Uppsala University under Prof. Gunilla
Kreiss, defended his Ph.D in Spring 2018. Collaboration on a joint research project in 2016 -
2017, and a visiting Ph.D student in Spring 2017)
First Job After Ph.D: Applied Researcher, Fraunhofer-Chalmers Centre
for Industrial Mathematics
Siyang Wang
(Ph.D. student at Uppsala University under Prof. Gunilla
Kreiss, defended his Ph.D in Spring 2017. Collaboration on a joint research project in 2016 -
2017),
First Job After Ph.D:
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mathematics at Chalmers University of Technology
James
Eckstein (Spring 2020 and Spring-Summer 2021), REU project "Numerical Algorithms for Automated
Dynamic Grain Boundary Network Identification"
Ph.D. student in Applied Physics
at Columbia University since Fall 2023
Camille Humphries (Spring 2019-Fall 2019), REU project "Fast
Numerical Algorithms for Models with Nonlinear Diffusion"; (May 2013 - May
2014): REU project "Central-Upwind
Schemes for Shallow Water Models"
Charlotte
Blake (REU student, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019): Project "Numerical Algorithms with
Application to Data Processing in Materials Science (Polycrystalline
Materials)"
Ph.D student in
Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since Fall 2019
Gabrielle Legaspi (Spring 2019), REU project; (Summer 2017):
Introduction to Research
Current Position: Biostatistician, New York, NY
Alex Henabray (REU student, Fall 2014): REU project "Numerical Methods for
Interface Problems"
Spencer Phippen (REU student, May 2013 - January 2014): Project
"Difference Potentials Method for Interface Problems"
Current
Position: Software Engineer at Google
Recent Research Talks
to Middle School Students, Spring 2013:
Project Youth -
University of Utah (for 6th Graders from local
schools), Spring 2013,
Slides
The presentation "Fun
Adventure in Applied Mathematics or What is Applied Mathematics?" was
illustrated by experiments:
Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for Quantitative Biology, html
Current Teaching:
Contact Information
The University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
e-mail: epshteyn@math.utah.edu
phone: (801) 585 - 1644
