McKenzie Black

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) at the Johns Hopkins University. My efforts supports the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) at Fort Belvoir. 

I received my PhD in Mathematics at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) in 2024 under the supervision of Changhui Tan.  Prior to  graduate school, I received a  Bachelors of Science from Virginia Tech in Mathematics. 

I am  interested in the analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PDE) specifically concerning nonlinear partial differential equations, and alignment models.  My research was recently partially supported by the UofSC SPARC grant. 

• Together with Thomas Hamori and Chunyan Li, I was  co-organizing the Applied and Computational Mathematics (ACM) Student Seminar, a biweekly student run seminar series at UofSC.

• I was a peer mentor under Dr. Sean Yee through the Peer Mentor Program at UofSC for the 2022-2023 academic year.

• Lastly, I was a Student Representative for the Mathematics Department Graduate Advisory Council.