Sebastian Woodward
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Pronouns
He / Him
Status
Postgraduate Student
Research groups
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Major / recent publications
Melanie Rupflin, Sebastian Woodward: A sharp quantitative stability result near infinitely concentrated minimisers https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25361
Research interests
My research lies in the field of non-linear PDEs and Geometric Analysis, under the supervision of Professor Rupflin. My current research is on quantitative stability estimates for the Dirchlet energy and associated energy functionals. Moreover, I am interested in how stability estimates for energy functionals in singular settings can be used to derive properties for related Skyrmion models and associated gradient flows.
Teaching
TA for geometry of surfaces
TA for functional analysis II
Tutor for functional analytic methods for PDEs
Tutor for Distribution theory
Tutor for Williams College