Faisal P. Amlani

MC 217-50
Pasadena CA 91125

Office at 226 Guggenheim (Map)
Phone, email to (626) 395 4746, faisal-at-acm.caltech.edu

Proceedings

• J. Carlos Lopez-Vazquez, J. Luis Dean, Cristina Trillo, Angel F. Doval, Jose L. Fernandez, Faisal Amlani, and Oscar P. Bruno, Modelling for characterizing defects in plates using two-dimensional maps of instantaneous ultrasonic out-of-plane displacement obtained by pulsed TV-holography, Proc. SPIE 7389, 738937 (2009)

Research

• Theory of elastic waves in plates
• Surface scattering problems of acoustic waves

Teaching

• Caltech ACM 95/100a Complex Variables (Fall 2007, Fall 2008)
• Caltech ACM 95/100b Ordinary Differential Equations (Winter 2008, Winter 2009)
• Caltech ACM 95/100c Partial Differential Equations (Spring 2008, Spring 2009)
• Rice CAAM 415 Theoretical Neuroscience (Spring 2005)
• Rice CAAM 336 Partial Differential Equations in Science & Engineering (Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005)

History

• Optimal sensor placement using the proper orthogonal decomposition, under the advisement of Dr. Matthias Heinkenschloss (Rice U. Computational & Applied Mathematics)
• Flux correcting algorithms for the Boltzmann transport equation, under the advisement of Drs. Thomas Cecil and Barna Bihari (UCLA Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics)
• Wideband impedence matching for single electron transistors (SETs), under the advisement of Dr. Alex Rimberg (Rice U. Physics & Astronomy)

Links

• LinkedIn Profile
• Laser Applications Research Group (University of Vigo, Spain)
• Echo Park Time Bank