Harvard University, SEAS
Room 312, Pierce Hall
29 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA
02138
kkamrin (at) seas.harvard.edu
My name is Ken Kamrin and I am an Applied Mathematics Lecturer and NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University. My past and current interests lie primarily in the development of mathematical models to explain the deformation and flow properties of various materials in various phases of matter. I received my PhD in Applied Mathematics from MIT in May 2008 (advised by Professor Martin Z. Bazant in the MIT Dry Fluids Group). My dissertation looked at dense material flows, with a focus on granular materials like sand, gravel, etc. Two distinct theoretical models for granular flow were developed, each capable of accurately predicting flows in multiple geometries. These models are very different and yet are both based on intuitive concepts with one treating flow as a stochastic process and the other a continuum deformation process. For more information on these and other projects, please visit the Research page. |
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News
1/13/2010: Ken is selected by the American Physical Society as the recipient of the 2010 Nicholas Metropolis Award for "outstanding doctoral thesis work in computational physics".