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Linda Jane Cummings is a British and American applied mathematician whose research involves the computational study of complex fluids at micro- and nano-scales, with applications including liquid crystals, the manufacture of optical fibers, and the design of ureteral stents. She is a professor of mathematical sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Education and career

Cummings read mathematics at the University of Oxford, receiving a bachelor's degree there in 1993, and continuing for a doctorate (D.Phil.) in 1996. Her dissertation, Free Boundary Models in Viscous Flow, was jointly supervised by John Ockendon and Samuel Dexter Howison.

After postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and the École normale supérieure (Paris), she took a faculty position at the University of Nottingham. She moved to the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2008.

Recognition

Cummings was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2023, after a nomination from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for wide-ranging and impactful contributions to the theoretical study of low-Reynolds-number free surface flows".

References

1. ^ Jenkins, Jesse, NJIT Math Professor Named American Physical Society Fellow, New Jersey Institute of Technology, retrieved 2025-01-03
2. ^ "Linda Cummings", People, New Jersey Institute of Technology, retrieved 2025-01-03
3. Linda Cummings at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2025-01-03

External links

• Complex Flows and Soft Matter Group, NJIT Department of Mathematical Sciences
• Linda Cummings publications indexed by Google Scholar

• Living people
• 20th-century British mathematicians
• 20th-century British women mathematicians
• 21st-century British mathematicians
• 21st-century British women mathematicians
• British fluid dynamicists
• 21st-century American mathematicians
• 21st-century American women mathematicians
• American fluid dynamicists
• Alumni of the University of Oxford
• Academics of the University of Nottingham
• New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty
• Fellows of the American Physical Society