PhD Students of Robert W. Carroll

Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

I have served as thesis advisor for the following dissertations:

  1. Wang, Chung Lie, Rutgers University, 1964.
    On the degenerate Cauchy problem for linear hyperbolic equations of second order.

  2. J. Cooper, University of Illinois, 1967.
    Some spaces of abstract linear evolution equations in Hilbert space.

  3. T. Mazumdar, University of Illinois, 1971.
    Existence theorems for noncoercive variable domain evolution problems.

  4. E. State, University of Illinois, 1971.
    Weak hyperbolic problems with variable domain.

  5. H. Silver, University of Illinois, 1973.
    On canonical sequences of singular Cauchy problems.

  6. F. Santosa, University of Illinois, 1980.
    Inverse scattering techniques in geophysics.

  7. Bu, Qi Yue, University of Illinois, 1992.
    On initial boundary value problem for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation and the Ginzburg-Landau equation.

  8. Chang, Jen Hsu, University of Illinois, 1998.
    Whitham equations, dispersionless KP theory, and Seiberg-Witten variables.
I have been academic advisor for the following students:
  1. Xiao, Ming Qing, University of Illinois, PhD (H-infinity control in infinite dimensional spaces and related partial differential equations), August, 1997

  2. Alejandra Folguera, University of Illinois, PhD (Integrable equations of Davey-Stewartson type), June, 1997