## Matthew Creek

### Dickson RTG Instructor

Department of Mathematics
University of Chicago

Email: mcreek@math.uchicago.edu
Office: Eckhart 306
Phone: (773) 702-7346

### Research

My main research interests are in the broad area of partial differential equations. I have studied several of the quasi- and semi-linear generalizations of the nonlinear sigma model of classical field theory, including the Skyrme, Faddeev, and Adkins-Nappi models. I am also interested more generally in mathematical analysis, especially the tools developed in harmonic analysis for analyzing PDE.

Curriculum Vitae

### Publications

Linear Stability of the Skyrmion (with R. Donninger, W. Schlag, and S. Snelson)

### Preprints

Large-Data Global Well-Posedness for Certain Quasilinear Wave Equations with Null Structure (working title -- with S. Snelson)
Large-Data Global Well-Posedness for the $\small\left(1 + 2\right)$-Dimensional Equivariant Skyrme Model (work completed in 2016; not yet submitted)
Large-Data Global Well-Posedness for the $\small\left(1 + 2\right)$-Dimensional Equivariant Faddeev Model (draft of my Ph.D. thesis)

### Teaching

 Winter, 2017 MATH 26200 Point-Set Topology Winter, 2017 MATH 20250 Abstract Linear Algebra Fall, 2016 MATH 20250 Abstract Linear Algebra Spring, 2016 MATH 16300 Honors Calculus-3 Winter, 2016 MATH 16200 Honors Calculus-2 (course web site by Asilata Bapat) Fall, 2015 MATH 16100 Honors Calculus-1 Spring, 2015 MATH 20500 Analysis in Rn-3 Winter, 2015 MATH 20400 Analysis in Rn-2 Fall, 2014 MATH 20300 Analysis in Rn-1