**Welcome**
This is the homepage of Sam Wallace, a PhD student at [Rutgers University Math Department](https://math.rutgers.edu/).
You can contact me at samuel.t.wallace AT rutgers.edu.
# About
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I work in mathematical material science, using tools from PDE, calculus of variations, and geometric measure theory. My thesis work concerns the effective equations (Gamma convergence) of nonlinear elasticity. I am additionally interested in variational problems arising in other aspects of material science, such as fluids and plasticity.
My advisor is [Ian Tobasco](http://www.iantobasco.com). We began my PhD at [MSCS @ UIC](https://mscs.uic.edu), and joined Rutgers as of Fall 2023.
## Presentations
1. [Poster](img/poster.pdf) presentation at University of Bonn titled "Planar Origami as a Limit of Thin Confined Sheets" in July 2023.
2. [Slides](img/slides.pdf) presentation at SES 2024 in Minneapolis titled "Origami as a Limit of Thin Confined Sheets" in October 2023.
3. [Slides](img/siam-slides-wallace.pdf) presentation at SIAM MS24 in Pittsburgh, May 2024.
4. Poster (Same as 1) presented at UMass Amherst Soft Matter Summer School, June 2024.
# My Bookshelf
For a full list of my reading list, check out my big list of books in a bibtex file: [here](./books/biglist.bib).
## Books
- [Partial Differential Equations](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Partial_Differential_Equations/Xnu0o_EJrCQC?hl=en&gbpv=0)
by [Evans](https://math.berkeley.edu/~evans/)
by Jerrold Marsden
- [Nonlinear Problems of Elasticity](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nonlinear_Problems_of_Elasticity/MujlsgEACAAJ?hl=en)
by Stuart Antman
- [Calculus of Variations](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Calculus_of_Variations/7OpgDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0)
by [Filip Rindler](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/filip_rindler/)
- [Mathematical Problems in Plasticity](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mathematical_Problems_in_Plasticity/5Hd1DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0)
by Roger Temam
- [Real-Variable Methods in Harmonic Analysis](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Real_Variable_Methods_in_Harmonic_Analys/_SdfDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0)
by Alberto Torchinsky
## Lecture Notes/Papers
- [Energy-driven pattern
formation](https://www.math.nyu.edu/~kohn/papers/kohn-icm.pdf) by
Robert Kohn
- [Mathematical Problems in Thin Elastic
Sheets](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Vector_Valued_Partial_Differential_Equat/3gImDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0)
(chapter) by Stefan Muller
- [Some Open Problems in
Elasticity](https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21791-6_1) by John Ball
# Links
## Academic Programs ##
- [MATH @ RU](https://math.rutgers.edu/)
- [MSCS @ UIC](https://mscs.uic.edu)
- [MATH @ UF](https://math.ufl.edu)
- [Phys @ UF](https://phys.ufl.edu)
## Math Links ##
- [Terry Tao](https://terrytao.wordpress.com)
- [Math Stack Exchange](https://math.stackexchange.com)
- [V.I. Arnold's On Teaching Mathematics](https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.TP/~munsteg/arnold.html)
- [Free Math Resources](https://realnotcomplex.com)
## LaTeX ##
- [LaTeX Formatting for NSF GRFP](grfp-latex)
- [Gilles Castel's Fast LaTeX typing in Vim](https://castel.dev)
- [Fast LaTeX Typing in Emacs](https://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-scholars/)
- [LaTeX Resource List](./workflow/latex/)
## Friends of Mine ##
- [Anish](https://aragogh.github.io/)
- [Thai](https://thaihangchung7.github.io/)
- [Trevor](https://tteoli2.people.uic.edu/)
- [Jake](https://tmaran2.people.uic.edu/)
- [Nick](https://nchrist5.people.uic.edu/)
- [Mihail](https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~mt994/)
## Bored?
- [Test your TeX!](https://texnique.xyz/) [my personal best](img/texnique_pb.png)
- [Play a browser game](https://onebitpunch.itch.io/hello-rogue)
- [Read a scary story](https://www.baen.com/Chapters/1597801461/1597801461___3.htm)