Anand Oza
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
510 Cullimore Hall (CULM)
About Me
Dr. Oza obtained his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was most recently a postdoctoral fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
Education
Ph.D. ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Mathematics ; 2014

M.A. ; University of Cambridge ; Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics ; 2009

B.A. ; Princeton University ; Chemistry ; 2004

2025 Fall Courses
MATH 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

MATH 331 - INTRO PARTIAL DIFF EQ

MATH 792B - PRE DOCTORAL RESEARCH

MATH 690 - ADV APPLIED MATH III

Past Courses
MATH 111: CALCULUS I

MATH 211: CALCULUS III A

MATH 331: INTRODUCTION TO PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

MATH 337: LINEAR ALGEBRA

MATH 689: ADV APPLIED MATH II

MATH 689: ADVANCED APPLIED MATHEMATICS II: ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

MATH 690: ADV APPLIED MATH III

MATH 690: ADVANCED APPLIED MATHEMATICS III: PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Research Interests
Dr. Oza is interested in fluid mechanics and nonlinear dynamics, specifically with applications in soft matter physics and biology. His research utilizes a combination of analytical techniques and numerical simulations, typically in collaboration with experimentalists.
Journal Article
Lauren Barnes, Boris Khusid, Lou Kondic, William V. Meyer, Anand U. Oza. 2025. "Phase-field modeling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity." npj Microgravity , vol. 11 , no. 1 .

Lauren Barnes, Boris Khusid, Lou Kondic, William V Meyer, Anand U. Oza. 2025. "Phase-field modeling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity." npj Microgravity , vol. 11 , pp. 63, 13.

Monika Nitsche, Anand U. Oza, Michael Siegel. 2025. "On the stability of an in-line formation of hydrodynamically interacting flapping plates." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 1013 .

Monika Nitsche, Anand U. Oza, Michael S. Siegel. 2025. "On the stability of an in-line formation of hydrodynamically interacting flapping plates." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 1013 , pp. A14 (32 pages).

Giuseppe Pucci, Antoine Bellaigue, Alessia Cirimele, Giuseppe Alì, Anand U. Oza. 2025. "Single-particle diffraction with a hydrodynamic pilot-wave model." Physical Review E , vol. 111 , no. L033101 .

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Conference Abstract
"Waves and interaction modes of capillary surfers"
April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2025.

"Data-driven modeling of active nematics via sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics"
Euromech, March, 2025.

"On the stability of interacting flapping plates"
American Physical Society, November, 2023.

"The role of concentration-dependent viscosity on the dynamics of colloid-polymer mixtures"
American Society for Gravitational and Space Research.

"Data-driven continuum modeling of active nematics via sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics"
American Physical Society.

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Newsletter
"The Loopy Fluid Dynamics of Bird Lungs"
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, September, 2021.