Beatrice Pelloni

Reader in Applied Mathematics

Head of Department (Research)

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

University of Reading

  • Room 210, Maths Bulding
  • Telephone No. : +44 118 378 8990
  • E-Mail Address : b.pelloni@reading.ac.uk





Research Interests

  • Boundary value problems for linear and nonlinear PDE's
  • Riemann-Hilbert problems
  • Integral transforms
  • Integrable systems
  • Spectral numerical methods

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Postgraduate students

  • Malachy McConnell (MSc 2002)
  • Davinia Chilton (PhD 2006)
  • Sanita Vetra  (MSc 2007)
  • David Smith (PhD 2011)
  • David Gilbert (PhD start: Jan 2009)
  • Nicolas Wehrning (PhD start: Sept 2011)

Selected publications

  • The Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for the elliptic sine-Gordon equation, with A.S. Fokas, submitted to Nonlinearity
  • Lagrangian solution of the fully compressible semigeostrophic system in physical space, with M.Cullen and D.K. Gilbert, submitted to SIAM J. An.
  • Generalised Dirichlet-to-Neumann map in time-dependent domains, with A.S. Fokas, submitted to Selecta Math.
  • The elliptic sine-Gordon equation in a semi-strip,  with A.S. Fokas,  J Nonlin Sci (accepted)(pdf)
  • The elliptic sine-Gordon equation in a half plane,  with D.A. Pinotsis,  Nonlinearity 23 (2010) 77-88. (pdf)
  • Spectral analysis of the elliptic sine-Gordon equation in a quarter plane   Theor. Math.. Phys. (2009)  160(1), 1031-1041 (pdf)
  • Boundary value problems for the N-wave interaction equations,  with D.A. Pinotsis,  Phys. Lett. A, (2009) 373, 1940-1950(pdf)
  • The Klein-Gordon equation in a domain with time-dependent boundary,  with D.A. Pinotsis,  Stud. Appl. Math. (2008)  121, 291-312(pdf)
  • Moving boundary value problems for the wave equation, with D.A. Pinotsis, J. Comp. Appl. Math.,   Proceedings of Waves2007,  (in press)
  • The Klein-Gordon equation on the half  line: a Riemann-Hilbert approach, with D.A. Pinotsis, J. Nonl. Math. Phys,  15 (2008), 334-344
  • Boundary value problems for third order linear PDEs in time dependent domains, Inv. Prob. (2008) 24, 015004 (19pp) (pdf)
  • A generalised Dirichlet to Neumann map for moving boundary value problems, with A.S. Fokas, J. Math. Phys. (2007)  48, 013502 (pdf)
  • Linear and nonlinear generalised Fourier transforms, Phil. Trans. A, special triennal issue (2006), 364, 1834 (e-offprint)
  • The spectral representation of two-point boundary value problems for linear evolution equations, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A (2005)461, 2965-2984 (pdf)
  • The asymptotic behaviour of the solution of boundary value problems for the sine-Gordon equation on a finite interval, J. Nonl. Math. Phys. (2005) 12(4) (pdf)
  • Localised coherent soluitons of DSI and DSII - a numerical study, with M. McConnell and A.S. Fokas, J. Math. Comp. Simul. (2005) 69 , 424-438 (pdf)
  • A transform method for linear evolution PDEs on a finite interval, with A.S. Fokas, IMA J. Appl. Math. (2005) 70 , 1-24 (pdf)
  • Boundary value problems for Boussinesq type systems , with A.S. Fokas, Math. Phys. Anal. Geom. (2005) 8 , 59-96 (also at www.kluweronline.com/issn/1385-0172)

Postgraduate Courses Organised

July 2005: LMS/EPSRC Course on Nonlinear Wave Phenomena

April 2006: Short Course on hp-finite element Methods , Prof. M. Melenk, TU Wien

April 2007: Short Course on The Mathematics of Large-Scale Atmospheric Flows , Prof. M. Cullen, Met Office

June 2007: Short Course on Spectral Properties of Banded Toeplitz Matrices , Prof. A. Boettcher, TU Chemnitz

December 2007: Short Course on Riemann-Hilbert problems , Prof. Alexander Its (IUPUI and Brunel)

June 25-27, 2008: Short Course on Operator adapted methods for the Helmholtz equation , Prof. Markus Melenk (TU Wien)

January 5-9 , 2009: Short Course on Entangled Polymer Dynamics , Prof. Alexei Likhtman ( Reading)



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