Deborah Brandon

Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus

Address:
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Email

Education

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Postdoctoral Appointments:

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
University of Minnesota
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research

My research interest are in partial differential equations, integrodifferential equations, and nonconvex variational problems, with applications in continuum mechanics.

In addition to my regular teaching duties, I'm the teaching assistant (TA) supervisor for the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

In this capacity, I run a TA training workshop, as well as an international TA training workshop (for incoming international graduate students who need to pass an English language test before they become TAs). I am also the director of the SUAMI (Summer Undergraduate Applied Mathematics Institute) - an annual outreach program of the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Select Publications

Brandon, D., Fonseca, I. and Swart, P. (2001). Oscillations in a dynamical model of phase transitions. Proc. Royal Soc. Edin., 131A, 59–81.

Brandon, D., and Rogers, R. C. (1996). Analysis of a rigid ferromagnetic body under applied magnetic fields. Quart. of Appl. Math., 54, 267-285.

Brandon, D., and Rogers, R. C. (1994). Nonlocal Superconductivity. ZAMP, 45, 135-152.

Brandon, D., and Rogers, R. C. (1992). The coercivity paradox and nonlocal ferromagnetism, Continuum Mech. Thermodyn., 4, 1-21.

Brandon, D., and Rogers, R. C. (1992). Nonlocal regulation of L. C. Young's tacking problem. Appl. Math. Optim., 25, 287-301.

Brandon, D. (1991). Global existence and asymptotic stability for a nonlinear integrodifferential equation modelling heat flow. SIAM J. Math. Anal., 22, 72-106.

Brandon, D., and Hrusa, W. J. (1990). Global existence of smooth shearing motions of a nonlinear viscoelastic fluid. J. Integral Equations and Applications, 2, 333-351.

Brandon, D., and Hrusa, W. J. (1988). Construction of a class of integral models for heat flow in materials with memory. J. Integral Equations and Applications, 1, 175-201.