Christoforou Cleopatra

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Cyprus University of Technology
Cyprus

Academician Mathematics
Biography

Ph.D. 2004 in Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. M.Sc. 2002 in Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. B.Sc. 2000 in Mathematics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Research Intrest

Partial Differential Equations and Applied Analysis. Continuum Mechanics and Hyperbolic Conservation Laws. Vanishing Viscosity Limits and Formation of Shock Waves.

List of Publications
C. Christoforou and Laura V. Spinolo. Boundary layers for self-similar viscous approximations of nonlinear hyperbolic systems, Quarterly of Applied Mathematics 71 (2013), (3) 433--453.
C. Christoforou and M. Slemrod, On the decay rate of the Gauss curvature for isometric immersions, Bulletin of the Braz. Math. Soc., (N.S.), 47 (2016) (1), 255--265.
C.Christoforou and A. Tzavaras, Relative entropy for hyperbolic-parabolic systems and application to the constitutive theory of thermoviscoelasticity, preprint (2016), arxiv 1603.08176.