Laura Valentina Spinolo's Homepage

I am Ralph Boas Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics of Northwestern University.
I have applied for a Leave of Absence from Northwestern University for 2008-2009.
Next year I will be at the De Giorgi Center of Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. I will have the 2008 Lizzanello Junior Visiting Position.
Here is my curriculum vitae

Contact Information:

Mailing address:
Department of Mathematics
Northwestern University
2033 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-2370
U.S.A

Office: B23, Lunt Hall
Phone number: 001-847-467-1823
Fax number:001-847-491-8906
Email: spinolo(at)math(dot)northwestern(dot)edu

Research

My research area are partial differential equations. For an overview of the papers listed below, please click here

Paper and Preprints:

  1. Vanishing viscosity solutions of a 2 x 2 triangular hyperbolic system with Dirichlet conditions on two boundaries, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 56, 2007, pages 279-364.
  2. The boundary Riemann solver coming from the real vanishing viscosity approximation (with Stefano Bianchini). Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, to appear.
  3. A connection between viscous profiles and singular ODEs (with Stefano Bianchini). Submitted
  4. Invariant manifolds for a singular ordinary differential equation (with Stefano Bianchini). Preprint SISSA 04/2008/M.

Teaching

Spring 2008: Math 334, Linear Algebra: Second Course.
Office Hours: Mondays 10.00-10.50 am, Wednesdays 10.00-10.50 am, Thursdays 2.00-2.50 pm. If you cannot come during office hours, please write me an email and we will fix an appointment.
Information about the course: syllabus, homework assignments, homework solutions and other information are available on Blackboard (password required).