Biography

Laurea in Mathematics, Università di Trieste, Italy 1996
Ph.D. in Applied Math and Scientific Compuation, University of Maryland, USA 2002
Marie Curie Fellowship Researcher, University of Crete and FORTH, Greece 2003-2004
Lecturer, University of Sussex, England UK since 2004
Personal webpage

Role

• scientific computing and numerical analysis of partial differential equations (PDE's)
• finite element methods for evolution and nonlinear PDE's
• self-adaptive error control algorithms
• geometrically based motions arising from free boundary problems
•  numerical methods for stochastic PDE's

Publications

See my personal teaching page for details.

Student Consultation

(Spring Term 2013)

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Venkataraman, C, Lakkis, O and Madzvamuse, A (2013) Adaptive finite elements for semilinear reaction-diffusion systems on growing domains. In: Numerical mathematics and advanced applications 2011: proceedings of ENUMATH 2011. Springer, Berlin, pp. 71-82. ISBN 9783642331336

Venkataraman, C, Lakkis, O and Madzvamuse, A (2012) Global existence for semilinear reaction-diffusion systems on evolving domains. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 64 (1-2). pp. 41-67. ISSN 0303-6812

Georgoulis, Emmanuil H, Lakkis, Omar and Virtanen, Juha M (2011) A posteriori error control for discontinuous Galerkin methods for parabolic problems. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 49 (2). pp. 427-458. ISSN 1095-7170

Lakkis, Omar and Pryer, Tristan (2011) Gradient recovery in adaptive finite element methods for parabolic problems. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 31 (3). pp. 246-278. ISSN 0272-4979

Demlow, Alan, Lakkis, Omar and Makridakis, Charalambos (2009) A Posteriori Error Estimates in the Maximum Norm for Parabolic Problems. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 47 (3). pp. 2157-2176. ISSN 0036-1429

Katsoulakis, Markos A, Kossioris, Giorgos T and Lakkis, Omar (2007) Noise regularization and computations for the 1-dimensional stochastic Allen-Cahn problem. Interfaces and Free Boundaries, 9 (1). pp. 1-30. ISSN 1463-9963

Lakkis, Omar and Makridakis, Charalambos (2006) Elliptic reconstruction and a posteriori error estimates for fully discrete linear parabolic problems. Mathematics of Computation, 75 (256). pp. 1627-1658. ISSN 0025-5718

Lakkis, Omar and Nochetto, Ricardo H (2005) A posteriori error analysis for the mean curvature flow of graphs. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 42 (5). pp. 1875-1898. ISSN 0036-1429

Bänsch, Eberhard, Haußer, Frank, Lakkis, Omar, Li, Bo and Voigt, Axel (2004) Finite element method of epitaxial growth with attachment-detachment kinetics. Journal of Computational Physics, 194 (2). pp. 409-434. ISSN 0021-9991