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Dr. Tilak Bhattacharya
Dr. Tilak Bhattacharya
- Professor
Academic Bio

PhD Purdue University, USA

B.Tech I. I. T Kanpur, India

Research

Dr. Bhattacharya's research includes: Elliptic and Parabolic Partial Differential Equations, Real Analysis.

Selected Publications
  • Some results for the Asymptotics and the Strong Maximum Principle for solutions to some nonlinear parabolic equations, Rendiconti di Matematica e sulle Applicazioni Roma, 45 (4), 255-280.
  • A Strong Minimum Principle and Large Time Asymptotics for viscosity solutions to doubly nonlinear equations (co-author Leonardo Marazzi), Nonlinear Analysis (Elsevier), Special Volume honoring Emmanuele DiBenedetto, vol 221, Aug 2022
  • A strong Maximum Principle for Fully Nonlinear Sub-Elliptic Equations with Hormander Condition (with Ahmed Mohammed), Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, Jan 2021.
  • On the Viscosity Solutions to Trudinger's equations (with Leonardo Marazzi), Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications, Vol 22, Issue 5, 2015.
  • Inhomogeneous Dirichlet problems involving the infinity-Laplacian (with Ahmed Mohammed). Advances in Differential Equations, vol 17, nos 3-4, March-April (2012), 225-266.
  • On the behaviour of infinity-harmonic functions on some special unbounded domains, Pacific J Mathematics, vol 219, no 2, 2005.
  • On the behavior of infinity-harmonic functions near isolated singularities, Nonlinear Analysis TMA, 58(2004)
  • A proof of the Faber-Krahn inequality for the first eigenvalue of the p-Laplacian, Ann. Mat, Pura ed Applicata, IV, vol CLXXVII, 1999.
  • Bounds for Capacities in terms of asymmetry (with Allen Weitsman), Revista Matematica Iberoamericana vol 12, no 3, 1996
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Student: Emma Bunch
Thesis title: Mobius Tranformations and Hyperbolic Geometry in the Upper Half Plane, December 2025
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