Dr. Brian Kha Tran

I am a Marc Kac Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Mathematics at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics (T-5) group, mentored by Ben S. Southworth. I am broadly interested in numerical and geometric methods for PDEs and ODEs; particular areas of interest include time integration, computational radiation hydrodynamics, variational and structure-preserving integrators, and optimal control theory.

Education

• Ph. D. in Mathematics with specialization in Computational Science, University of California San Diego, 2023. Advised by Prof. Melvin Leok. Dissertation. 

• M. A. in Applied Mathematics, Universty of California San Diego, 2019.

• B. S. in Mathematics (Highest Distinction) and B. S. in Physics, University of California San Diego, 2017.

Here is my CV (updated November 10, 2023)