I could not have asked for a finer boulder.
Laf230@math.rutgers.edu
Room 626, Hill Center, Busch Campus
I am a PhD student in the math department at Rutgers University studying mathematical physics. I would like to spend my career helping physicists realize their novel ideas using rigorous mathematics.
(2025) Paper on the arrival time problem in quantum mechanics. Contains proof that highly idealized detecting screens must be modeled by absorbing boundary conditions, and discusses how every such model admits a natural detection-time distribution.
To appear in Rev Math Phys →(2025) Joint work with S.Teufel and R.Tumulka.
Math Phys Anal Geom 28(27) (2025) →(2025) A rigorous resolution to the radiation-reaction problem in one space dimension.
J Dyn Diff Equat (2025) →(2025) Joint work with S. Leigh and S. Tahvildar-Zadeh.
Lett Math Phys 115(9) (2025) →(2024) Joint work with S. Leigh and S. Tahvildar-Zadeh.
J. Math. Phys. 65(6) (2024) →Math-phys seminar at Tubingen University on Aug 15, 2025
Slides →PDE seminar at University of Innsbruck on Aug 5, 2025
Slides →Operator theory seminar at TU Graz on Feb 27, 2025
Slides →Given at "Kick-off Workshop: A new geometry for Einstein's theory and Beyond" on Feb 25 2025
Slides →Given at "International Conference for Generalized Functions" on Sep 16 2024
Slides →Poster for JMM 2020
Poster →A mathematical argument, is, after all, only organized common sense, and it is well that men of science should not always expound their work to the few behind a veil of technical language, but should from time to time explain to the larger public the reasoning which lies behind their mathematical notation."Below you will find some of my thoughts and opinions. Read them with a spoonful of salt. I have not made any attempt to write these pages from an objective viewpoint, because something valueable is lost when opinions formed from personal experience are presented in a non-personal way. Rigorous arguments on these subjects are important, but that's what papers are for.George Darwin