Title: Curvature and Confinement: Vegetation on Undulating Sloped Terrain
Timothy Roberts is a William H. Kruskal Instructor in the University of Chicago Department of Statistics.
Research Overview: My research interests lie in applying geometric ideas to dynamical systems problems. My past work has centered on two main themes: classical ODES, where I used geometric singular perturbation theory to analyze a model a thermoregulation in the brain; and linear spectral theory of traveling fronts and pulses, where I helped develop a new numerical scheme for detecting the stability of fronts and pulses (in one spatial dimension). My current work focusses on using rigorous, geometric techniques to understand pattern formation in different physical and biological applications.
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