Rolf Ryham

Lovett Instructor of Mathematics

Rice University

Contact Information

Office 452 Herman Brown Hall

Department of Mathematics, Rice University - MS 136, Houston, TX 77005

Office phone : (713) 348-2385

Fax : (713) 348-5231

[my last name] at rice dot edu

Education

Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2006

B.S. University of Georgia, 2001

Research Interests

Partial differential equations and calculus of variations

Publications

• Diffuse Interface Energies Capturing the Euler Number: Relaxation and Renormalization, (with Qiang Du, Chun Liu and Xiaoqiang Wang), Comm in Math Science, 5 (2007) 233-242. journal
• Mathematical Models for the Deformation of Electrolyte Droplets, (with Chun Liu and Ludmil Zikatanov), DCDS-B, Vol. 8 No. 3 (2007) 649-661. journal
• On Electro-Kinetic Fluids: One Dimensional Configurations, (with Chun Liu and Zhi-Qiang Wang), DCDS-B, Vol. 6 No. 2 journal
• Modeling the Spontaneous Curvature Effects in Static Cell Membrane Def ormations by a Phase Field Formulation, (with Qiang Du, Chun Liu and Xiaoqiang Wang), CPPA, Vol. 4 (2005) 537-548. journal
• A Phase Field Formulation of the Willmore Problem, (with Qiang Du, Chun Liu and Xiaoqiang Wang), Nonlinearity, 18 (2005) 1249-1267. journal

Teaching

Math 425 Integration Theory	Math 213 Basic Mathematical Biology	Math 211 Ordinary Differential Equations	Math 499 VIGRE Undergrad Research PFUG

Utilities

• Visualization of parametric curves and surfaces with gnuplot
• An html slide show script: slidemaker
• Simulation and numerical computation