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Conceição Carvalho

Auxiliary Professor at the Mathematics Department of the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon.

Member of the Mathematical Physics Group of the University of Lisbon.

Scientific interests

• Problems of Functional Analysis and Probability Theory arising in Mathematical Physics
• Partial Differencial Equations

Papers

• "On the relation between the rates of relaxation and convergence of Wild sums for solutions of the Kac equation", with E. Carlen and E. Gabetta, to appear in Jour. Func. Analysis 2004 (available online 5 November 2004).
• "Spectral gap for the Kac model and related stochastic evolutions", with E. A. Carlen and M. Loss, Acta Mathematica 191, no.1 (2003), 1-54.
• "Free energy minimizers for a two-species model with segregation and liquid-vapour transition", with E. Carlen, R. Esposito, J. Lebowitz and R. Marra, Nonlinearity 16, no.3 (2003), 1075--1105.
• "Central limit theorem for Maxwellian molecules and truncation of the Wild sum", with E. A. Carlen and E. Gabetta, Comm. in Pure and Appl. Math. 53 (2000), 370-397
• "Algebraic rate of decay for the excess free energy and stability of fronts for a non-local phase kinetics equation with a conservation law II", with E. A. Carlen and E. Orlandi, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 25 (2000), 370-397.
• "Algebraic rate of decay for the excess free energy and stability of fronts for a non-local phase kinetics equation with a conservation law I", with E. A. Carlen and E. Orlandi, Jour. Stat. Phys. 95 (1999), 1069-1117.

Educational links

• Linear algebra book: Beginning with Linear Algebra [new (2005) version]
• Álgebra Linear e Geometria Analítica (2004/05): programa [PDF]
• Cálculo II (Energia e Ambiente) (2004/05): programa [PDF]

Here are some other possible interesting sites for my students:

• First-Year Calculus (Univ. of Toronto)
• The Geometry Center
• Mathematics and the Geosciences
• Animations

Scientific Links

• AMS, American Mathematical Society
• SPS, Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática
• SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• TMR - Asymptotic Methods in Kinetic Theory and Hydrodynamics
• Summer School on Mass Transportation Methods in Kinetic Theory and Hydrodynamics

Contact information

At the Interdisciplinary Complex of the University of Lisbon:

At the School of Mathematics of the Georgia Institute of Technology:

URL: http://alf3.cii.fc.ul.pt/gfm/Members/CC.en.html
Last modified: Wed Feb 23 08:56:05 WET 2005