Abba Ramadan Receives Award from Doctoral Student Research Fund

LAWRENCE-Abba Ramadan received an award from the Doctoral Student Research Fund from the KU Office of Graduate Studies.

The fund provides support to doctoral students to help them carry out research that advances progress toward the degree.  Recipients must be in good academic standing, passed the comprehensive exam and use the funding to conduct research that will contribute directly toward the completion of the doctoral degree.

Abba’s primary research interests are in the existence, stability, and dynamics of nonlinear wave solutions to dispersive partial difference equations (PDEs).  His comprehensive oral exam was on Existence and Stability of Solitary Waves for the Inhomogeneous NLS.  His advisor is Atanas Stefanov, professor of mathematics (formerly at KU, now at University of Alabama at Birmingham).