Contact Information

Mathematics Department 
South Hall, Room 6707
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Office Phone: (805) 893 3681 
Office Fax: (805) 893 2385
email: cgarcia at math dot ucsb dot edu
 

Academic Background

• B.S. in Mathematics from the Universitat de València, Spain in 1994.

• Ph.D. in Mathematics from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, in 1999.

Research Interests

• Nonlinear PDE's of Continuum Mechanics, Calculus of Variations.
• Asymptotic Analysis.
• Micromagnetics, Liquid Crystals, Fluid Dynamics.
• Electronic Structure of Solids and Density Functional Theory.
• Scientific Computing.

Awards and Honors

• Bizkaia Talent Award, 2014-2016
• Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation, 2007-2012.
• Horace and Keiko Mochizuki Memorial Award, 2010
• Alfred P. Sloan Dissertation Fellowship, 1997.
• Harold Grad Memorial Prize, Courant Institute, 1996.
• Fellowship given by The Bank of Spain, 1995-1997.
• 'La Caixa' Fellowship, Spain, 1994-1995.

Graduate Students

• August W. Bosse, Physics Department.
• Matthew Buoni, Mechanical Engineering.
• Silvia Comelli, Mathematics
• Tanya Chantawansri, Chemical Engineering.
• Su-Mi Hur, Chemical Engineering
• D. Harley Klein, Chemical Engineering.
• Erin Lennon, Chemical Engineering.
• Kyle Mylonakis, Mathematics.
• Jiawei Qi, Mathematics.

Post-docs

• Sookyung Joo, currently at Old Dominion University.
• Yulin Xuan.
• Jingrun Chen, currently at Soochow University, China.
• Matthew Mata, currently at El Camino College.
• Lihui Chai.

Publications

Courses

Careers in Mathematical Sciences (Undergraduate/Graduate) - AMS

Careers in Applied Mathematics - SIAM

Association for Women in Mathematics

Undergraduate Research Projects

Applied Mathematics Group at UCSB

Complex Fluids Design Consortium at UCSB

Sarvahitey

Some very nice photographs (Pablo Latorre's website)