Katharine Ott

NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Mathematics

University of Kentucky

 

733 Patterson Office Tower                             

Lexington, KY 40506-0027

Telephone: (859)  257-6815

Fax: (859) 257-4078

Email: kott@ms.uky.edu

 

 

 

Research Interests

 

Real, Complex and Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations

 

· Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Publications

 

Counterexamples to the well-posedness of Lp transmission boundary value problems for the Laplacian, with I. Mitrea, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 135 (2007), 2037-2043.

Electromagnetic scattering from perturbed surfaces, with I. Mitrea, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 30 (2007), 861-876.

Exterior boundary value problems for Maxwell’s equations, technical report for the 2007 Virginia Space Grant Consortium Student Research Exhibition. PDF

Blind image deconvolution: Motion blur estimation, with F. Krahmer, Y. Lin, B. McAdoo,  J. Wang, D. Widemann, and B. Wohlberg (Mentor), technical report for the Mathematical Modeling in Industry X Workshop, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, MN. PDF

Transmission boundary value problems in elasticity, with I. Mitrea, technical report for the 2006 Virginia Space Grant Consortium Student Research Exhibition. PDF

Outreach Activities

 

 

· Numbers to Remember By, a book review of Yoko Ogawa’s novel The Housekeeper and the Professor, appearing in Science 324, 5932 (5 June 2009)

 

 

· IMA Special Workshop on Careers Options for Women in the Mathematical Sciences (April 2009)                 Poster: Boundary Value Problems in Non-Smooth Domains

· UK Math Club — The Netflix Prize: How Mathematics Can Predict Movies You’ll Love (April 2009)

 

· The BIG Notebook — A Newsletter of the MAA Special Interest Group for Mathematics in Business, Industry and Government  (Summer 2008)

 

· Girls and Mathematics, University of Virginia (Summer 2007)

                 2007 Program Brochure

                 NBC 29 News Coverage

 

·      Sonja Kovalevskya High School Mathematics Day 

                   Spring 2007

                   Spring 2008

 

· Thomas Jefferson and Mathematics Seminar  (Spring 2007)

                 Program Poster

                 Thomas Jefferson’s Wheel Cipher (PDF)