Linda Cummings
Linda Jane Cummings is a British and American applied mathematician whose research involves the computational study of complex fluids at micro- and nano-scales, with applications including liquid crystals, the manufacture of optical fibers, and the design of ureteral stents.[1] She is a professor of mathematical sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.[2]
Education and career
[edit]Cummings read mathematics at the University of Oxford, receiving a bachelor's degree there in 1993, and continuing for a doctorate (D.Phil.) in 1996.[2] Her dissertation, Free Boundary Models in Viscous Flow, was jointly supervised by John Ockendon and Samuel Dexter Howison.[3]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and the École normale supérieure (Paris), she took a faculty position at the University of Nottingham. She moved to the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2008.[2]
Recognition
[edit]Cummings was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2023, after a nomination from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for wide-ranging and impactful contributions to the theoretical study of low-Reynolds-number free surface flows".[1][4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Jenkins, Jesse, NJIT Math Professor Named American Physical Society Fellow, New Jersey Institute of Technology, retrieved 2025-01-03
- ^ a b c "Linda Cummings", People, New Jersey Institute of Technology, retrieved 2025-01-03
- ^ Linda Cummings at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2025-01-03
External links
[edit]- Complex Flows and Soft Matter Group, NJIT Department of Mathematical Sciences
- Linda Cummings publications indexed by Google Scholar
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