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    Warren Edelstein, Ph.D.

    Professor

    Applied Mathematics

    Office: Engineering 1, Room 111a
    10 W. 32nd St.
    Chicago, IL 60616
    Office Hours: MW 3:15 - 4:05 and by appointment
    Phone: 312.567.3139
    Fax: 312.567.3135
    Email: edelstein_AT_iit_DOT_edu
    Web: www.iit.edu/~edelstein

    Expertise

    • Analysis of linear visco elasticity and nonlinear creep, numerical analysis of flow-induced vibrations in tubes conveying fluids, numerical solution of boundary value problems arising in the quantum mechanics of semiconductors. Also computational mechanics and mathematics of finance.

    Education

    • Ph.D. - Brown University

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    Selected Publications

    • On Saint-Venant's Principle in Linear Viscoelasticity, Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. (36) 1970, 366-380.
    • A Priori Bounds for the Displacement Problem in Viscoelasticity, SIAM J. Appl. Math. (23) 1972, 396-408.
    • On Bounds and Approximate Solutions for a Class of Transient Creep Problems, with P. G. Reichel, Int. J. Solids Structures (16) 1980, 107-118.
    • On Stress Redistribution in Structures During Creep, with J. Hult, Int. J. Solids Structures (19) 1983, 915-924.
    • A Finite Element Computation of the Flow-Induced Oscillations in a Cantilever Tube, with S. S. Chen and J. A. Jendrzejczyk, J. Sound and Vibration (107) 1986, 121-129.

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    Community Service

    Remembering Gene Golub Lecture
    02.29.08
    12:45-2:15 pm

    Remembering Karl Menger Day
    04.14.08
    12:45-7 pm

    Upcoming Colloquia & Seminars

    Hong-Kai Zhao
    03.26.08
    4:40 pm
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    James Glimm
    04.4.08
    4:40 pm
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