Papers and Talks
Fall 2009
During my third semester in the applied mathematics graduate program, I did a
research project with Dr. Janek Wehr, a professor in the Mathematics Department
at the University of Arizona, in the field of quantum computation and
quantum information as a part of the Research Tutorial Group (RTG) program.
I gave a brown bag talk on 2, October 2009, to introduce the field of quantum
computing. The abstract is given below.
Student Brown Bag website with my abstract.
Spring 2009
During the second semester in the applied mathematics graduate program, the student is to write a paper on a topic
loosly related to one of the three core courses with the instructor of that course
(Analysis, Methods of Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis). I, with much help from Shankar Venkataranami (Professor
Univeristy of Arizona),
wrote a paper about dynamical systems and chaos, and gave a twenty minute presentation on 15, May 2009.
Semester Paper (PDF)
Presentation Slides (PDF)
Fall 2008
During a first semester applied math graduate fluids lab course Sarah E. Mann (UA applied math), Mathew Pennybacker
(UA applied math), and I wrote a paper and gave a thirty minute presentation on 3, December 2008, on the flow of a viscous
fluid. The paper
and slides are given as PDFs below.
Fluids Paper (PDF)
Presentation Slides (PDF)
I also gave a talk at the graduate student brown bag talks on 5, September 2008 describing
my undergraduate honors thesis in control theory and linear algebra.
Student
Brown Bag website with my abstract.
Presentation Slides (PDF)
Spring 2008
As an undergraduate mathematics major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln I worked with
Dr. George Avalos (Professor University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and his graduate student at
the time, Michael Gunderson on null controlability with funding from the NSF Mentoring Through
Critical Transition Points (MCTP) grant. With the help of both Dr. Avalos and Michael, I wrote
an honors thesis and defended it in the Spring of 2008. The paper and presentation slides are
given below.
Honors Thesis (PDF)
Presentation Slides (PDF)
Fall 2006
I gave a talk on my research with Dr. Avalos and Michael Gunderson
at the 8th annual regional workshop in the mathematical Sciences at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln on October 28th 2006. The abstract and website is given below.
Regional Workshop Schedule
Regional
Workshop with my abstract