Web page for Richard Melrose

My person can sometimes be found in Room 2-174, at MIT.
Telephone: 617-253-2950
E-mail:

rbm@math.mit.edu

Fax 617-253-4358.

Newest

Equivariant cohomology and resolution
Fredholm realizations of elliptic symbols on manifolds with boundary II: fibered boundary
Eta forms and the odd pseudodifferential families index
There will be a meeting `mmm2009' assocated to Singularities@mit (which is on Saturday 4th April) with talks on Friday 3rd April and Monday 6th April
posted 17 March 2009:
Lectures at Berkeley Fall 2008:Smooth Operator Algebras and K-theory
posted 17 March 2009:
Real Blow up
posted 17 March 2009:
Diffraction of singularities for the wave equation on manifolds with corners
posted 17 March 2009:
The index of projective families of elliptic operators: the decomposable case

Teaching

Fall 2009:

Undergraduate Analysis 18.100B -- Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11-12:30 in 4-163
Introduction to Microlocal Analysis 18.157 -- Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1-2:30 in 2-136

Mathematical entertainment

Analysis and PDE seminar
Interesting Meetings

Real mathematics

Various papers
Hook a book
Notes from talks
Lecture notes for the wary

Journal of Functional Analysis: I am no longer an editor!

A list of my current graduate student(s)

Fang Wang
Chris Kottke

Finished in 2007:

Yakov Shapiro

Finished in 2005:

Frédéric Rochon rochon@math.mit.edu

Finished in 2003:

Gyula Lakos lakos@math.mit.edu
Raul Tataru grtataru@math.mit.edu

I was a student of Gerard Friedlander

A list of my former PhD students

PhD: 1999
- Sergiu Moroianu(moroianu@alum.mit.edu)
PhD: 1998
- Sang Chin
- Paul Loya (paul@math.binghamton.edu)
- Jared Wunsch (jwunsch@math.northwestern.edu)
PhD: 1997
- András Vasy (andras@math.mit.edu)
PhD: 1996
- Edith A. Mooers (edie@tracfoundation.org)
PhD: 1994
- Andrew Hassell (hassell@maths.anu.edu.au)
- Mark S. Joshi (joshi@pmms.cam.ac.uk)
PhD: 1993
- Tanya Christiansen (tjc@math.missouri.edu)
PhD: 1991
- Paolo Piazza (piazza@mat.uniroma1.it)
PhD: 1990
- Patrick T. McDonald (pmacdona@virtu.sar.usf.edu)
PhD: 1989
- Julian Edward (edwardj@solix.fiu.edu)
- Maciej Zworski (zworski@math.berkeley.edu)
PhD: 1988
- Catherine Durso
- Boyd Livingston
- Ant\^onio S\'a Barreto (sabarre@math.purdue.edu)
PhD: 1987
- Chuan-yi Xu
PhD: 1986
- Edoh Y. Amiran
- Rafe R. Mazzeo (mazzeo@math.stanford.edu)
PhD: 1985
- Ahmed Intissar intissar@fsr.ac.ma
- Santiago Ramon Simanca Perez
PhD: 1984
- Alan W. Magnusson
- Niles D. Ritter
PhD: 1982
- John M. (Jack) Lee
PhD: 1981
- Frank Farris
- Shahla Marvizi (Ahdout)
- Mark Williams

Fruits, nuts, flowers, etc.

Fruit varieties at the ``Folly.'' (Feb 7, 2002: 1M Acrobat file -- big!.)
- February 26, 2001: Doritanopis hybrid [Phal. Hawaiian Clouds x Dtps. Orglade's White Rain 'Carmela']
- February 11, 2001: Phalaenopis hybrid
- February 9, 2001: Coelogne cristata
- February 5, 2001: Phalaenopsis hybrid
- January 29, 2001: Coelogne cristata
- January 20, 2001: Phalaenopsis hybrid [Phal. (Pinlong Memory ``Sincerely'' x Pinlong Memory ``TT'')(x) Phal. (Yoland Josefa Wever``1''x New Glad ``Ching Hua'')]
- January 12, 2001: Potinara David Tomassini
Harvests of various kinds
Vermont virtual orchard
Pears of New York
Orchid culture

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