Dean R. Baskin



I am a math graduate student in my third year, working under Rafe Mazzeo and András Vasy. I am interested in partial differential equations generally and geometric microlocal analysis more specifically.

Teaching
This winter I am a course assistant for Math 205B, which is a first-year graduate course in functional analysis.
This past fall (Autumn 2007) I was a teaching assistant for Math 53, a first course in ordinary differential equations.
I have also been a course assistant for:

Talks
In October 2007, I gave a talk at Stanford University for my area exam. In it, I discussed Jared Wunsch's paper "Propagation of growth and singularities for Schrödinger operators". The notes are available here.
In May 2008, I gave a very brief introduction to microlocal analysis in the Student Geometry Seminar. Here are the very rough notes.
In February 2008, I spoke in the Student Geometry Seminar about Strichartz estimates and the semilinear Schrödinger equation.
In February 2008, I gave a talk in the math department's Kiddie Colloquium about using the Heat kernel to obtain an asymptotic formula for the eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold (Weyl asymptotics).
In February 2007, I gave a different talk at the Kiddie colloquium about the Hodge Theorem.

Other
Here is a link to Anne's website.
I live in Fremont, CA. I am always looking for Fremont restaurants that I enjoy.
I own a Thinkpad x60 tablet and have put linux on it. I have also written up a sparse set of useful links for this process.