Margaret Beck
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University

Hello, and welcome to my web page, where you can find information about me and my work. I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University. As a postdoc, I spent time in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Surrey in Guildford, England, and at the Mathematical Sciences Research Center (MSRI) in Berkeley, CA, during the program on Dynamical Systems. I went to graduate school here in the math department at BU, where my PhD advisors were Tasso Kaper and Gene Wayne. As an undergraduate, I attended Colorado College.
 
Research

My research is focused on determining the nonlinear stability and large-time behavior of solutions to dissipative PDEs, which I often view as infinite dimensional dynamical systems. This includes studying traveling waves and spatially and/or temporally periodic patterns. I use a variety of mathematical techniques, for example invariant manifolds, similarity variables, geometric singular perturbation theory and exponential dichotomies, and I'm intersted in applications that include viscous conservation laws and reaction diffusion equations.
Seminars and Reading Groups

I regularly attend the Boston University Dynamical Systems Seminar and the joint Brown University and Boston University PDE Seminar. In addition, this semester I am co-organizing a reading group with Aaron Hoffman on the Evans function.
Teaching

Links to webpages for courses I am teaching this year: For past courses, click here.
Contact Information

Mailing address: Office Number: MCS 233
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Phone: 1-617-358-3314
Boston University Fax: 1-617-353-8100
111 Cummington St. E-mail: mabeck -at- math.bu.edu
Boston, MA 02215