Aaron Hoffman

Assistant Professor
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
1000 Olin Way
Needham, MA 02492

phone: 781-292-2561
fax: 781-292-2505
office: Milas Hall 257
email: firstname.lastname-at-olin.edu
office hours: Tues 9-10; Thurs 3:15-4:30

Teaching:

  • MTH 2140: Differential Equations
  • MTH 2188: Linearity
  • MTH 3199: Advanced Linear Algebra

Research Interests:
  • Infinite dimensional dynamical systems
  • Fronts and pulses in spatially discrete media 
  • Completely integrable PDE

Publications:

G.N. Benes, A. Hoffman and C.E. Wayne
Asymptotic Stability of the Toda m-soliton 
386 JMAA (2012) 345-360 (arXiv) (DOI)

A. Hoffman and B. Kennedy 
Existence and uniqueness of traveling waves in a class of unidirectional lattice differential equations 
DCDS-A 30 (2011) 137-167 (arXiv)(DOI)

A. Hoffman and J.D. Wright
Exit manifolds for lattice differential equations 
Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburg. 72 (2011) 72-92 (arXiv(DOI)

A. Hoffman and C.E. Wayne 
A simple proof of the stability of solitary waves in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model near the KdV limit  
Fields Institute Communication Series volume honoring George Sell (accepted)

A. Hoffman and J. Mallet-Paret
Universality of crystallographic pinning  
JDDE 22 (2010) 79-119 (arXiv) (DOI)

A. Hoffman and C.E. Wayne
Asymptotic two-soliton solutions in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model  
JDDE 21 (2009) 343-351 (DOI)

A. Hoffman and C. E. Wayne
Counterpropagating two-soliton solutions in the FPU lattice 
Nonlinearity 21 (2008) 2911-2947 (arXiv) (DOI) 











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