{"id":165,"date":"2017-06-02T20:53:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2026-01-22T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:21:11","slug":"castro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/faculty-staff\/castro\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfonso Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">McAlister Professor of Mathematics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Castro specializes in applied mathematics, differential equations and nonlinear functional analysis. Castro\u2019s research areas include partial differential equations (including semilinear equations with discrete spectrum), variational methods, inverse-function theorems and water waves (solitons).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castro was awarded a 2012 Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians to support his research project, &#8220;Solvability of semilinear equations with discrete spectrum,\u201d which involves equations fundamental to every area of science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castro is the co-founder and managing editor of the Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, a pioneering journal in paperless publication that publishes in excess of 150 research papers per year, accessible free of charge via the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castro has served in several positions for the American Mathematical Society, including chair of its Human Rights Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2019\/01\/vitae1-2019.pdf\">Alfonso Castro&#8217;s CV (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McAlister Professor of Mathematics Castro specializes in applied mathematics, differential equations and nonlinear functional analysis. Castro\u2019s research areas include partial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3706,"parent":93,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-165","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5842,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions\/5842"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}