Teaching

• Spring 2008: MATH 231-004
• Spring 2009: MATH 302-001 and 002
• Fall 2009: MATH 132-001, 002 and 003

Education

Employment History

• Research Assistant, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (University of Mining), Germany, 1997-1999, Project: Phase Transitions and Modeling of Cooling Processes in the Production of Steel, funded by European Union

• Research Assistant, Louisiana State University 2000-2006, Project supported by AFOSR grant FA9550-05-1-0008

• Postdoctoral Associate, Louisiana State University 2006-2007, Project supported by AFOSR and Boeing Aircraft Company

• Postdoctoral Associate, North Carolina State University 2007-now, NSF Research Training Group: Mathematics of Materials

Research Interests

Mathematical Material Science, Optimal Design, Composite Materials, Numerical Methods for solving PDEs, Scientific Computing

Publications

• Stuebner, M., Atulasimha, J., Smith, R.C. Quantification of hysteresis and nonlinear effects on the frequency response of ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials. Smart Mater. Struct., Vol. 18, 104019, 2009. (Abstract and PDF)
• Babuska, I., Lipton, R. and Stuebner, M. The penetration function and its application to microscale problems. BIT Numerical Mathematics, Appeared Electronically July 2008. (Abstract and PDF)
• Lipton, R. and Stuebner, M. Optimal design of composite structures for strength and stiffness: an inverse homogenization approach. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 33, pp. 937-962, 2007.
• Lipton, R. and Stuebner, M. Optimization of composite structures subject to local stress constraints. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics & Engineering, Vol. 196, pp. 66-75, 2006. (PDF)
• Lipton, R. and Stuebner, M. Design of fiber reinforced shafts subject to local stress constraints through inverse homogenization: A preliminary study on fiber size effect. To appear in the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium: TOPOPT 2005, Rungsted, Denmark, October 2005. (PDF)
• Lipton R, and Stuebner, M. Inverse homogenization and design of microstructure for pointwise stress control. The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Vol.59, No.1, pp. 139-161, 2005. (Abstract and PDF)

Links

• Penetration computations