Alvis Zahl

Postdoctoral Research Scholar in mathematics at Arizona State University

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“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”

My interests lie in free boundary problems and partial differential equations.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Mathematics in May 2026 from Rutgers University under the advisory of Dennis Kriventsov.
Here is my CV.

Before my graduate studies, I graduated with honors from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2021.
I am also avtively involved in triathlon trainings.

My person can sometime be found at my office
Room: 618, Hill Center,
110 Frelinghuysen Road,
Piscataway, NJ 08854
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(347)699-8688
a.z@math.rutgers.edu

Publications and Preprints

Zahl, A. Fully Nonlinear Alt Phillips Problem: Higher Free Boundary Regularity. In preparation.
Zahl, A. Minimizing Eigenvalues of the Fractional Laplacian. Calc. Var. Partial Differ. Equ. (2026). Paper.

Undergraduate Thesis

Zahl, A. First Order Hyperbolic Boundary Value Problems With a Large Oscillatory Zero Order Term. Preprint (2021). Arxiv. Advisor: Mark Williams

Service

Referee for Journal de l'École polytechnique — Mathématiques (JEP).
Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews (MathSciNet), American Mathematical Society.

Organized Events

PDE Coffee Chat: an online seminar and discussion series on partial differential equations.


Miscellaneous

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