Dean R. Baskin

Dean R. Baskin

Department of Mathematics
Stanford University
Building 380, Sloan Hall
Stanford, CA 94305
e-mail: dbaskin at math

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

Papers

A parametrix for the fundamental solution of the Klein-Gordon equation on asymptotically de Sitter spaces. Also available from the ArXiv. (Last updated: May 5, 2009)
A Strichartz estimate for de Sitter space. Also available from the ArXiv. (Last updated: September 14, 2009)

Student Geometry and Analysis Seminar

I am the organizer of the Student Geometric Analysis Seminar in the Stanford Math department.

Student Research Colloquium

I am a co-organizer (with Eric Malm) of the Student Research Colloquium.

Student Microlocal Analysis Reading Group

I am also an organizer of the Student Microlocal Analysis Reading group.

Teaching

In spring 2009, I was the course assistant for Math 205C, a graduate course in harmonic analysis.
In Winter 2009, I was the teaching assistant for Math 52H, one quarter of the honors calculus sequence at Stanford.
- Here is a handout about Maxwell's equations.
In 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:
- Math 205B (Winter 2007 and Winter 2008) -- an introductory graduate course in functional analysis.
- Math 146 (Autumn 2006) -- an undergraduate course in differential topology.
- Math 121 (Winter 2006) -- an undergraduate course in Galois theory.
- Math 19 (Autumn 2005) -- a first course in differential calculus.
On October 21 and 23, 2008, I was a substitute lecturer in Maciej Zworski's scattering theory class at UC Berkeley. I spoke about wavefront sets. (The lecture notes are handwritten.)

Upcoming Talks

I will speak in December at the University of Washington.
I will speak in January at the joint meetings.
I will speak in April at the AMS Sectional Meeting in Albuquerque, NM.

Past Talks

On October 31, 2009, I gave a talk at the AMS Special Session on General Relativity in Boca Raton. Here are my slides.
On Thursday, September 17, I gave a talk at MSRI in Berkeley.
In July 2009, I presented a poster at the AMSI-ANU Workshop on Spectral Theory and Harmonic Analysis in Canberra.
In April 2009, I spoke in the Purdue University Scattering Theory Seminar.
In February 2009, I spoke at the Southern California Analysis and PDE meeting.
In November 2008, I spoke about my research in the Stanford Geometry seminar. Two days later, I spoke in the MSRI postdoc seminar. Here are my notes.
In August 2008, I gave a short talk at the Second Symposium on Scattering and Spectral Theory in Recife and Serrambi, Brazil. I gave an overview of some of my research.
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 October 2008, I gave a talk in the Student Geometry seminar about radiation fields on asymptotically Euclidean manifolds. This talk was about work of F. G. Friedlander and Antônio Sá Barreto.
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 Graduate Student 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 Graduate Student Colloquium about the Hodge Theorem.

Other

I own a Thinkpad x60 tablet and have put linux on it. I have also written up an outdated sparse set of useful links for this process.