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Scholarly Interest Report
         
Mark Patrick Embree
Professor
Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics
 
e-mail:embree@rice.edu
 
  • B.S. (1996) Mathematics Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • B.S. (1996) Computer Science Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • D.Phil. (2000) Numerical Analysis Oxford University
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    Primary Department
       Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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    Member, American Mathematical Society (AMS)
     Member, American Mathematical Society (AMS)
     
    Member, Society for Natural Philosophy
     Member, Society for Natural Philosophy
     
    Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
     Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
     
    Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
     Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
     
    Websites
     Home Page
     
    Research Areas
     Numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra, spectral theory.
     
    Teaching Areas
     Matrix analysis and numerical analysis
     
    Selected Publications
     Articles
     S. J. Cox, M. Embree, and J. M. Hokanson, One can hear the composition of a string: experiments with an inverse eigenvalue problem, Rice University CAAM Department Report TR 08-10, (July 2008) Submitted for publication in SIAM Review (Education Section)
     
     Refereed Articles
     Damanik, M. Embree, A. Gorodetski, and S. Tcheremchantsev, The fractal dimension of the spectrum of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian, Commun. Math. Phys. 280 (2008) 499-516.
     
    Presentations
     Invited Talks
     Invited Speaker.  "Approximation and Recovery of Damped Wave Operators." CRM/McGill Applied Mathematics Seminar, Montreal, CANADA. (March 2008)
     
     Invited Plenary Speaker.  "Damped Mechanical Systems: Spectra, Pseudospectra, Structured Perturbations." Householder Symposium on Numerical Linear Algebra, Zeuthen, Germany. (June 2008)
     
     Invited Speaker.  "Spectral Calculations for Damped Wave Operators." University of Houston Mathematics Seminar, Houston, TX. (October 2008)
     
     Invited Speaker.  "Spectral Calculations for Quasiperiodic Schrödinger Operators." Seventh International Workshop on the Accurate Solution of Eigenvalue Problems, Dubrovnik, Croatia,. (June 2008)