Carlos Román Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Research interests: My research interests lie primarily in the calculus of variations, partial differential equations, mathematical physics, and geometric analysis.
Email: carlos.roman (at) uc.cl


Master's students

2025- Tomás Thiers
● Co-directed with Edgardo Stockmeyer.
● Subject: London equation on a superconducting spheroid.
2025- Kai Yamamoto
● Subject: Pinning in 3D superconductivity and superfluidity.
2024−2025 Matías Díaz-Vera
● Title: Vortex pinning in inhomogeneous type-II superconductors.
● Currently a Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
● Check out our latest preprint: First critical field in the pinned three dimensional Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity
2022−2023 Fabián Sepúlveda
● Co-directed with Axel Osses.
● Title: Pattern formation on a Gierer-Meinhardt model via Turing instability.
● Check out our new preprint: Novel reaction-diffusion PDE model for fingerprint-like pattern emergence via the Schnakenberg mechanism

Undergraduate students

2026 Pablo Rojas
● Engineering IPre, second semester 2026.
2026 Javiera Soto
● IPre, Winter 2026.
2026 Erwin Gatica
● IPre, Winter 2026.
2026 Luis Núñez
● Undergraduate thesis.
2025 Kai Yamamoto
● Engineering IPre, second semester 2025.
2025 Miguel Barrera
● Undergraduate thesis.
2024 Alejandro Hidalgo
● IPre, Summer 2024.

Engineering IPre denotes a semester-long undergraduate research project carrying academic credits, whereas IPre denotes a shorter, funded undergraduate research project.

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