Charis Tsikkou  Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University  100 Math Tower, 231 West 18th Avenue  Columbus, OH 43210-1174   Office: MW 456  Phone: 614-292-6597  Email: lastname (at) math.osu.edu   Research Area  Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations-Applied Mathematics   Research Interests  Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws, Kinetic Theory,  Diffusion-Dispersion Equations-Strichartz Estimates   Thesis (under C. M. Dafermos, Brown University, 2009)  Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with Large Initial Data.  Is the Cauchy Problem Well-Posed?  BV Estimates for the P-System