Peter A. Markowich works in the area of partial differential equations and their applications in science and engineering. He holds a Chair in Applied Mathematics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of the University of Cambridge. He is also Professor at the University of Vienna and leader of a research group at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applie...

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