Peter A. Perry
Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
University of Kentucky

phone:    (859) 257-6791
fax:    (859) 257-4078 (FAX)
email:    perry@ms.uky.edu

MathExcel:

I direct the MathExcel Program for Calculus I and Calculus II at the University of Kentucky

Teaching :

In Fall 2009 I will teach:

  • Math 113, Calculus I, Sections 9, 10, 11, 12
  • Math 773, Inverse Scattering and the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation

Research Interests: Spectral and Scattering Theory, Spectral Geometry, Inverse Problems, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Current collaborators include David Borthwick, Carolyn Gordon , Thomas Kappeler, Peter Topalov, Mikhael Shubin, Rostyslav Hryniv, and Yaroslav Mykytyuk.

Selected Publications

  1. Determinants of Laplacians and isopolar metrics on surfaces of infinite area, with David Borthwick and Chris Judge, to appear in Duke Math. J.
  2. Spectral geometry in dimension 3, with Robert Brooks and Peter Petersen V . Acta Math. 173 (1994), 283-305.
  3. The Laplace operator on hyperbolic three manifolds with cusps of nonmaximal rank, with Richard Froese and Peter Hislop . Invent. Math. 106 (1991), no. 2, 295--333.
  4. Isospectral sets of conformally equivalent metrics, with Robert Brooks and Paul Yang. Duke Math. J. 58 (1989), no. 1, 131-150.
  5. Spectral analysis of N-body Schrödinger operators, with Barry Simon and Israel M. Sigal. Ann. of Math. (2) 114 (1981), no. 3, 519-567