Evangelos Coutsias
Professor, Ph.D., 1979
California Institute of Technology
Evangelos Coutsias' research has focused on the modeling of nonlinear systems and
continua, using techniques of applied mathematics on problems motivated from applied
physics, engineering and biology. These includeasymptotics and perturbation methods for the study of stability and bifurcation phenomena
in plasma physics, biology and fluid mechanics; high accuracy numerical spectral methods
for solving PDEs arising in continuum mechanics; and robust numerical methods for
systems of multivariate polynomials for the solution of problems of inverse kinematics
arising in molecular structure studies. His present work is on the development of
computational methods for the study of protein structure, especially on the kinematic
geometry of protein backbones subject to constraints. Current interests focus on the
refinement of protein structure and the development of computational geometric methods
for the efficient exploration of macromolecular shapespaces with application to protein
design and drug discovery.
Office: Math Tower 1-119
Phone: 631-632-1822
Website: https://www3.ams.stonybrook.edu/~coutsias