Taylor, Michael E

William R. Kenan Distinguished Professor
Phillips Hall 326
919-962-9627
met@email.unc.edu
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Research Interests

Partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, geometric analysis, stochastic analysis

 

Professional background

A.B., Princeton University, 1967; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1970; Instructor and Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 1970-76; Associate Professor, Rice University, 1976-78; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1977-78; Professor, Rice University, 1978-81; Professor, SUNY Stony Brook, 1981-87; Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, CalTech, 1986-87; William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, UNC Chapel Hill, 1987-present

 

Research Synopsis

My research in Partial Differential Equations involves a variety of areas: wave equations, including diffraction, scattering, and inverse problems; nonlinear evolution equations, including nonlinear Schrodinger equations, Euler and Navier-Stokes equations for fluids, and analysis of standing and traveling waves; harmonic analysis, including spectral theory of Laplace operators, behavior of singular integral operators on uniformly rectifiable domains and applications to boundary problems on rough domains, and index theory of Toeplitz operators in rough, multidimensional domains; and stochastic analysis, bearing on phenomena ranging from enhanced diffusion in fluids to non-gaussian processes on fractal sets.

 

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