McLaughlin, Kenneth
Evelyn and John G. Phillips Distinguished Professor in Mathematics
Ken McLaughlin is joining Tulane’s mathematics department as the Evelyn and John G. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. He studied mathematics at New York University and went on to earn his Ph.D. from that school’s Courant Institute in 1994. He has served as Head of the Mathematics Department at the University of Arizona, and as the Chair of the Mathematics Department Colorado State University. His research has taken him around the world, including faculty positions at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, The Federal University of Brasília, and research positions at the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, The Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge University, the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Rio de Janeiro, the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium, the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and the Université de Paris VII. McLaughlin is a Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Research Fellow, creating collaborations with researchers at the University of Bristol. His research is devoted to the discovery of new mathematical phenomena and analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations, nonlinear waves, mathematical physics, the theory of approximation, probability, and combinatorics.
Biography
Ken McLaughlin is joining Tulane’s mathematics department as the Evelyn and John G. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. He studied mathematics at New York University and went on to earn his Ph.D. from that school’s Courant Institute in 1994. He has served as Head of the Mathematics Department at the University of Arizona, and as the Chair of the Mathematics Department Colorado State University. His research has taken him around the world, including faculty positions at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, The Federal University of Brasília, and research positions at the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, The Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge University, the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Rio de Janeiro, the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium, the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and the Université de Paris VII. McLaughlin is a Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Research Fellow, creating collaborations with researchers at the University of Bristol. His research is devoted to the discovery of new mathematical phenomena and analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations, nonlinear waves, mathematical physics, the theory of approximation, probability, and combinatorics.
