
Snelson, Stanley

Stanley Snelson
Assistant Professor | Mathematics and Systems Engineering
Contact Information
Frederick C. Crawford Bldg, 315
Educational Background
PhD, Mathematics, New York University, 2014
MS, Mathematics, New York University, 2011
BS, Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 2009
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, 2017--present
L. E. Dickson Instructor, University of Chicago, 2014--2017
Current Courses
Fall 2023: Introductory Analysis (MTH 4101), Differential Equations/Linear Algebra (MTH 2201/2202)
Selected Publications
Solutions to the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation uniformly near a Maxwellian (with L. Silvestre), Mathematics in Engineering, 2023.
Non-existence of some approximately self-similar singularities for the Landau, Vlasov-Poisson-Landau, and Boltzmann equations (with J. Bedrossian and M. Gualdani), Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2022.
Local solutions of the Landau equation with rough, slowly decaying initial data (with C. Henderson and A. Tarfulea), Annales de l'Institute Henri Poincaré (C) Analyse Non Linéaire, 2020.
Gaussian bounds for the inhomogeneous Landau equation with hard potentials, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 2020.
C∞ smoothing for weak solutions of the inhomogeneous Landau equation (with C. Henderson), Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 2020.
Asymptotic stability for odd perturbations of the the stationary kink in the variable-speed φ4 model, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2018.
Linear stability of the Skyrmion (with M. Creek, R. Donninger, and W. Schlag), International Mathematics Research Notices, 2017.
See my website for a complete publication list.
Recognition & Awards
National Science Foundation LEAPS-MPS Grant, 2022
Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant, 2021
ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, 2019