ACADEMIC PAGE
NATHAN D. TOTZ
ACADEMIC POSITIONS & EDUCATION
University of Miami
2017-2021, Coral Gables FL
Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2014-2017, Amherst MA
Visiting Assistant Professor
-Postdoctoral Mentor: Professor Andrea Nahmod
Duke University
2011-2014, Durham NC
Assistant Research Professor
-Postdoctoral Mentor: Professor J. Thomas Beale
University of Michigan
2006-2011, Ann Arbor MI
Ph.D. in Mathematics
-Thesis: A Rigorous Justification of the Modulation Approximation to the 2D Full Water Wave Problem
-Thesis Advisor: Professor Sijue Wu
Knox College
2002-2006, Galesburg IL
B.A. in Mathematics, Magna cum Laude with Honors
-Senior Thesis: An In-Depth Study of Distributions
-Senior Thesis Advisor: Professor Dennis Schneider
-Post-Baccalaureate Fellow, Knox College, 2005-2006-Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Fall 2004
PUBLICATIONS & PREPRINTS
Research Interests
-Partial Differential Equations arising from Fluid Mechanics
-Dispersive PDEs
-Asymptotic Analysis
-PDEs in Nondeterministic Settings
Publications & Manuscripts
N. Totz. Existence and Uniqueness of Energy Solutions to the Stochastic Diffusive Surface Quasi-Geostrophic Equation with Additive Noise. Submitted. (Arxiv Preprint)
A. Nahmod, N. Pavlovic, G. Staffilani, N. Totz. Global Flows with Invariant Measures for Inviscid Modified SQG equations. Stoch. Partial Differ. Equ. Anal. Comput. 6(2), 184-210 (2018) (Arxiv Preprint)
N. Totz. Global Well-Posedness of 2D Non-Focusing Schrodinger Equations via Rigorous Modulation Approximation. J. Diff. Eq., Vol. 261, Issue 4 (2016), pp. 2251-2299. (Arxiv Preprint)
N. Totz. A Justification of the Modulation Approximation to the 3D Full Water Wave Problem. Commun. Math. Phys., Vol. 335 No. 1 (2015), pp. 369-443, Springer. (Arxiv Preprint)
D. Herzog, N. Totz. On a Generalization of Hormander's Theorem. Potential Anal., Vol. 42, Issue 2 (2015), pp. 403-433 (Arxiv Preprint)
N. Totz, S. Wu. A Rigorous Justification of the Modulation Approximation to the 2D Full Water Wave Problem. Commun. Math. Phys., Vol. 310 No. 3 (2012), pp. 817-883, Springer. (Arxiv Preprint)
N. Totz (D. Schneider, directing) An In-Depth Study of Distributions.
Senior Thesis, Knox College (2005). (A systematic exposition of the theory of distributions in a topological vector space framework, culminating in a proof of the Malgrange-Ehrenpreis Theorem)GRANTS & AWARDS
2016-2021
The interplay of evolution partial differential equations and their model equations. Award total $102,079.
MSRI Postdoctoral Fellowship
Fall 2015
New Challenges in PDE: Deterministic Dynamics and Randomness in High and Infinite Dimensional Systems
Supported under NSF H98230-15-1-0106
-Postdoctoral Mentor: Professor Natasa Pavlovic
TEACHING
Current Courses
To be updated in Fall 2020
Classes Instructed
Spring 2020-2021, 224 (Undergrad. Intro. Prob. and Stat.)
Fall 2020-2021, 210 (Intro. to Linear Algebra)
Spring 2019-2020, 625 (Graduate Intro. to Statistics)
Fall 2018-2019, 624 (Graduate Intro. to Probability)
Spring 2018, 224 (Undergrad. Intro. Prob. and Stat.)
Fall 2017-2019, 210 (Undergraduate Linear Algebra)
Fall 2017, 311 (Undergraduate ODE)
Spring 2017, 524 (Intro. to Modern Analysis II)
Spring 2017, 331 (Undergraduate ODE)
Fall 2016, 233 (Multivariable Calculus)
Spring 2016, 331 (Undergraduate ODE)
Spring 2015, 235 (Linear Algebra)
Fall 2014, 131 (Calculus 1)
Spring 2014, 353 (Undergraduate ODE and PDE)
Fall 2013, 212 (Multivariable Calculus)
Fall 2012, 551 (Graduate Applied PDE and Complex Variables)
Fall 2012, 353 (Undergraduate ODE and PDE)
Spring 2012, 131 (Undergraduate ODE and PDE)
Fall 2011, 103 (Multivariable Calculus)
Further teaching experience available upon request.
Classes Administered
Graduate Student Instructor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Co-coordinator 116 (Calculus 2), Fall 2009
CONTACT
Email
nathantotz@gmail.com
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