Laurel Ohm, Ph.D.
National Science Foundation postdoc, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York UniversityLaurel is a National Science Foundation postdoc at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, and a guest researcher at the Center for Computational Biology at Flatiron Institute. She obtained her PhD in mathematics in spring 2020 from the University of Minnesota. Her graduate work involved developing a PDE framework for analyzing the accuracy of slender body theory in modeling thin filaments in fluid. She is interested in modeling and analyzing the collective behavior of fibers in flows.