Dr. Pham was born and raised in Buon Ma Thuot City, Daklak, Vietnam, being the elder of two. He came to the United States in 2012 to attend the graduate school in Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. During this time, he found the restored church of Jesus Christ and was baptized. During 2018-2020, he worked as a postdoc at Oregon State University. Here he met his eternal companion, Kathy Sherwood, who was then a high school Spanish teacher. He taught at Brigham Young University the following 2 years and Eastern Oregon University the following year before joining Brigham Young University-Hawaii in 2023. He enjoys learning and teaching math, playing the guitar, researching genealogy, and spending time with his precious family. With his Vietnamese background, he is excited to contribute to the cultural diversity of the campus community.
Education
Ph.D. Mathematics
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Aug 2018
Advisor: Vladim´ır Sver´ak.
Thesis: Topics in the regularity theory of the Navier-Stokes equations.
M.Sc. Applied Mathematics
University of Orleans, Orl´eans, France, Jul 2012
Thesis: Matched asymptotic analysis of a phase-field model for alloy solidification.
B.Sc. Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Oct 2010
Thesis: Topological degree on class (S)+ and applications to the p-Laplace problems.
Research Areas
Partial Differential Equations, Stochastic Processes, Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Analysis.
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Math and Computing, Brigham Young University–Hawaii, Laie, HI, Aug 2023 - present
Research member
Summer program of Mathematical Problems in Fluid Dynamics (Part II), Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, CA, Jul - Aug 2023.
Assistant Professor and Pathway Coordinator
Department of Mathematics, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR, Sep 2022 - Jun 2023
Courtesy Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Sep 2022 - present
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, Sep 2020 - Aug 2022.
Research member
Semester program of Mathematical Problems in Fluid Dynamics, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, CA, Jan - May 2021.
Fixed-term Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Aug 2018 - Aug 2020.
Graduate Research / Teaching Assistant
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Sep 2012 - May 2018.
Summer Intern
Laboratoire de Physique de la Mati`ere Condens´ee, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, Apr 2011 - Jul 2011.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Nov 2010 - Nov 2011.
Teaching Experience
At Brigham Young University–Hawaii:
- Spring 2024 Instructor, Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry
- Spring 2024 Instructor, Calculus III
- Fall 2023 Instructor, Quantitative Reasoning
- Fall 2023 Instructor, Calculus II
At Eastern Oregon University:
- Spring 2023 Instructor, PreCalculus
- Spring 2023 Instructor, Calculus III
- Spring 2023 Instructor, Differential Equations
- Spring 2023 Instructor, Linear Algebra (online, asynchronous)
- Winter 2023 Instructor, College Algebra-Part II (online, asynchronous)
- Winter 2023 Instructor, Calculus II
- Winter 2023 Instructor, Calculus IV
- Fall 2022 Instructor, Lotteries and Loans (online, asynchronous)
- Fall 2022 Instructor, College Algebra-Part I (online, asynchronous)
- Fall 2022 Instructor, Calculus I
At Brigham Young University:
- Spring 2022 Instructor, Calculus of Several Variables
- Winter 2022 Instructor, Calculus of Several Variables
- Fall 2021 Instructor, Ordinary Differential Equations
- Winter 2021 Instructor, Calculus of Several Variables
- Fall 2020 Instructor, Ordinary Differential Equations
- Fall 2020 Instructor, Elementary Linear Algebra
At Oregon State University:
- Spring 2020 Instructor, Complex Variables
- Winter 2020 Instructor, Linear Algebra II
- Winter 2020 Instructor, Introduction to Numerical Analysis
- Fall 2019 Instructor, Linear Algebra II
- Fall 2019 Instructor, Introduction to Numerical Analysis
- Spring 2019 Instructor, Complex Variables
- Winter 2019 Instructor, Matrix and Power Series Methods
- Winter 2019 Instructor, Integral Calculus (Honors Section)
- Fall 2018 Instructor, Linear Algebra I
At University of Minnesota:
- Spring 2018 Teaching Assistant, CSE Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
- Fall 2017 Teaching Assistant, CSE Multivariable Calculus and Vector Analysis
- Fall 2017 Grader, Theory of Partial Differential Equations
- Spring 2017 Teaching Assistant, CSE Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
- Spring 2017 Grader, Mathematical Analysis of Biological Networks
- Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant, Calculus I
- Fall 2016 Grader, Geometry I
- Fall 2015 Teaching Assistant, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
- Spring 2013 Teaching Assistant, CSE Calculus II
- Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant, Pre-Calculus II
At University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam:
- Fall 2011 Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Calculus I
- Fall 2011 Teaching Assistant, Differential and Integral Calculus
Students Mentored
Iosefa Taliu and Japeth Caballero: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, undergraduate research assistants, Summer 2024.
Max Brown: Brigham Young University, undergraduate research assistant, Fall 2021.
Hunter Nelson (now a PhD student at the Department of Physics, Virginia Tech): Oregon State University, Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, Summer 2020.
Teaching Awards
University of Minnesota’s certificate for outstanding teaching and dedication to helping students learn, Spring 2018.
Invited Talks
- BYUH Faculty Advisory Council Forum, Mar 2024.
- CUNY Graduate Center, Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar, Dec 2021.
- Seminar of Applied Data Assimilation and Parameter Tuning (ADAPT), Nov 2021.
- MSRI, Applied Fluids seminar, May 2021.
- University of Utah, Probability/Harmonic Analysis Seminar, Sep 2020.
- Oneworld Symposium: Stochastic Analysis - including SPDEs, Aug 2020.
- Saigon PDE Workshop, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Jul 2020.
- Oregon State University, Analysis & Math Bio Seminar, Feb 2020.
- AMS Special Sections on Recent Advances in the Theory of Fluid Dynamics / PDEs, Data and Inverse Problems, University of Utah, Oct 2020.
- Oregon State University, Applied Mathematics and Computation Seminar, Jan 2020.
- Brigham Young University, Mathematics Colloquium, Dec 2019.
- Oregon State University, Analysis Seminar, Oct 2019.
- 2nd Biennial Meeting of the SIAM Pacific Northwest Section, Seattle University, Oct 2019.
- Oregon State University, Analysis Seminar, Apr 2019.
- Brigham Young University, Analysis Seminar, Feb 2019.
- Oregon State University, Analysis Seminar, Nov 2018.
- Oregon State University, Analysis Seminar, Nov 2018.
- Oregon State University, Mathematics colloquium, Oct 2018.
- University of Wisconsin–Madison, 81st Midwest PDE seminar, Apr 2018.
- Brigham Young University, Mathematics colloquium, Feb 2018.
- University of Minnesota, PDE Seminar, Oct 2017.
- University of Minnesota, Student PDE Seminar, Feb 2016.
Academic Services
- Faculty member leading the effort to acquire the Mathematica software for Eastern Oregon University, 2022-2023. As a result, a 3-year contract between Wolfram Research Inc. and EOU was signed in June 2023.
- Mathematics Pathway coordinator, Eastern Oregon University, 2022-2023.
- Co-host of the Regional High School Math Contest at EOU, April 2023.
- Group leader of the Investigator of Science event (an event for middle school students to explore science at EOU).
- Linear Algebra committee member, Brigham Young University, 2021-2022.
- Co-organizer of the 7th annual Cascade Regional Applied Interdisciplinary and Numerical Mathematics (RAIN) Meeting in Corvallis OR, April 2020.
- Judge in MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego CA, January 2018.
- Judge for high school projects and papers at the North Central Regional Junior Science & Humanities Symposium, March 2018.
Other Skills
Languages
Vietnamese (native), English (fluent), French (basic: reading, writing).
Computer Programming
C, C++, Matlab, Maple, Mathematica, Python.
Publications
- Radu Dascaliuc, Tuan N. Pham, Enrique Thomann: “On Le Jan-Sznitman’s stochastic approach to the Navier-Stokes equations”. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol 377, No. 4, 2335-2365, April 2024. Available online at arXiv:1910.05500.
- Radu Dascaliuc, Tuan N. Pham, Enrique Thomann: “Erratum to Stochastic explosion and nonuniqueness for α-Riccati equation [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 476 (1) (2019) 53–85]”. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol 527, Issue 2, November 2023. Available online at arXiv:2303.05482.
- Radu Dascaliuc, Tuan N. Pham, Enrique Thomann, Edward Waymire: “Doubly Stochastic Yule Cascades (Part I): The explosion problem in the time-reversible case”. Journal of Functional Analysis, Vol 284, Issue 1, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2022.109722.
- Radu Dascaliuc, Tuan N. Pham, Enrique Thomann, Edward Waymire: “Doubly Stochastic Yule Cascades (Part II): The explosion problem in the non-reversible case”. To appear on Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincar´e, Probabilit´es et Statistiques. Available online at arXiv:2107.13182.
- Tuan N. Pham: “Global regularity criteria for the Navier-Stokes equations based on one approximate solution” (submitted, available online at arXiv:1910.05501).
- Tuan N. Pham and Jared P. Whitehead: “On the hydrodynamic stability of stochastically driven flows” (in preparation).
- Tuan N. Pham: “On the explosion problem of nonhomogeneous Yule cascades” (in preparation).
- Tuan N. Pham, Vladim´ır Sver´ak: “Minimal blowup data for potential Navier-Stokes singularities in the half space” (in preparation).
- Tuan N. Pham: “Conservation of frequencies and the global regularity of the Navier-Stokes equations” (in preparation).
- Tuan N. Pham: “Topics in the regularity theory of the Navier-Stokes equations” (PhD thesis). University of Minnesota, 2018, pp. vii+133. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/201125
Expository Notes
1. Linear Partial Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients. Available online at: https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/∼phamt3/Old websites/UMN/docs/Oral-paper.pdf
CV Last Revised June 11, 2024