
Contact Information
231 Illini Hall (MC-382)
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Statistical mechanics, probability, differential equations, and applications to physics and biology.
Education
Ph.D. UC-Berkeley, 2007
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Physics
External Links
Recent Publications
Kirkpatrick, K., Mirasola, A. E., & Prescod-Weinstein, C. (2022). Analysis of Bose-Einstein condensation times for self-interacting scalar dark matter. Physical Review D, 106(4), [043512]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.043512
Kirkpatrick, K. L. (2022). Biological computation: hearts and flytraps. Journal of Biological Physics, 48(1), 55-78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10867-021-09590-9
Gao, Y., Kirkpatrick, K., Marzuola, J., Mattingly, J., & Newhall, K. A. (2021). LIMITING BEHAVIORS OF HIGH DIMENSIONAL STOCHASTIC SPIN ENSEMBLES*. Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 19(2), 453-494. https://doi.org/10.4310/CMS.2021.v19.n2.a7
Kirkpatrick, K., Rademacher, S., & Schlein, B. (2021). A Large Deviation Principle in Many-Body Quantum Dynamics. Annales Henri Poincare, 22(8), 2595-2618. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-021-01044-1
Kirkpatrick, K. L. (2021). Dark matter may be a Bose-Einstein condensate of Axions. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 68(9), 1576-1577. https://doi.org/10.1090/noti2354