Noah Stevenson's Curriculum Vitae

Last updated on 5 August 2026.

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Contact

Email: stevenson "at" princeton.edu

Employment

ETH Zürich — Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik (2026–)

  • Hermann-Weyl-Instructor

  • U.S. National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics — Princeton University (2021–2026)

  • U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow

  • Adviser: Alexandru Ionescu

  • Thesis: Viscous Traveling Surface Waves

Master of Science in Mathematics — Carnegie Mellon University (2019–2021)

  • Honors Degree Program: undergraduate and master's degree programs completed simultaneously

  • Adviser: Ian Tice

  • Thesis: Miscellaneous Analysis of Micropolar Fluids, Screened Sobolev Spaces, and Multilayer Free Boundary Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics — Carnegie Mellon University (2017–2021)

  • GPA: 4.00/4.00

  • Mathematical Studies Program: honors undergraduate course sequence in analysis and algebra

  • Minor in Physics

Awards, Grants, & Scholarships

  • U.S. National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2027–2029), DMS #2602112.

  • Princeton University Department of Mathematics Merit Award, 2021

  • U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2021

  • Summer Research in Partial Differential Equations Grant recipient, 2019 & 2020

  • Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, 2020–2021

  • Roger N. Pedersen Memorial Award recipient, 2019–2020

  • Richard A. Moore Scholar, 2018–2019

Talks

  1. Dynamics Across Scales Workshop at ESI. Vienna, Austria. January 2027.

  2. Mathematical Fluid Seminar at Ochanomizu University. Tokyo, Japan. December 2026.

  3. Analysis of Viscous Incompressible Fluids Workshop at RIMS. Kyoto, Japan. December 2026.

  4. Differential Equations Seminar at TU Delft. Delft, Netherlands. November 2026.

  5. Current Trends in Fluid Dynamics Workshop at Brin Center. College Park, MD. April 2026.

  6. DE Seminar, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. March 2026.

  7. MOSAIC (virtual), February 2026.

  8. CNA Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. February 2026.

  9. Analysis of Fluids Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. February 2026.

  10. DE Seminar, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. January 2026.

  11. Department of Mathematics Seminar, Duke University, Durham, NC. January 2026.

  12. Analysis-Probability Seminar (virtual), Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany. January 2026.

  13. Minisymposium on Nonlinear Waves and Interfacial Dynamics, SIAM PDE Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. November 2025.

  14. PDE-Applied Math Seminar, University of Maryland. College Park, MD. September 2025.

  15. DE Seminar, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. January 2025.

  16. Nonlinear PDE Seminar, Texas A&M University. College Station, TX. November 2024.

  17. Special Session on Fluids, Equadiff 2024. Karlstad, Sweden. June 2024.

  18. Recent developments in the study of free boundary problems in fluid mechanics, AMS Sectional Meeting. Washington D.C. April 2024.

  19. Summer School in Fluid Mechanics at Brin Center. College Park, MD. July 2023.

Publications and Preprints

  1. Smooth and swirling steady vortex rings near the Hill—Norbury family.

    • Joint with Răzvan-Octavian Radu. In preparation.

  2. On large periodic traveling surface waves in porous media.

    • Joint with Huy Q. Nguyen. 2026.
    • arXiv.

  3. Desingularization of nondegenerate rotating vortex patches.

    • Joint with Răzvan-Octavian Radu. 2025.
    • arXiv.

  4. Gravity driven traveling bore wave solutions to the free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.

    • Joint with Ian Tice. 2025.
    • arXiv.

  5. Stationary wave solutions to two dimensional viscous shallow water equations: theory of small and large solutions.

  6. Periodic gravity-capillary roll wave solutions to the inclined viscous shallow water equations in two dimensions.

  7. The traveling wave problem for the shallow water equations: well-posedness and the limits of vanishing viscosity and surface tension.

  8. Well-posedness of the stationary and slowly traveling wave problem for the free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.

  9. Well-posedness of the traveling wave problem for the free boundary compressible Navier-Stokes equations.

    • Joint with Ian Tice. 2023.
    • arXiv.

  10. Traveling wave solutions to the multilayer free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.

  11. A truncated real interpolation method and characterizations of screened Sobolev spaces.

  12. Analysis of micropolar fluids: existence of potential microflow solutions, nearby global-well-posedness, stability and attractiveness.