My new postdoctoral job involves the investigation of ways that we can use observations from a special class of instruments … More
Author: Sean
My New Postdoc
I started my postdoctoral position with the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) on September 1. My new work is somewhere … More
Garfunkel and Mumford’s piece on Math Education in the NY Times
Link to the Article If you haven’t read the above article, take a few minutes to do so. It’s quite … More
Applied Math Career Post on Dynamical Systems Web Magazine
I am a big fan of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), because they connect mathematicians to the … More
Boundary Conditions are of the Devil
Jean Jacque Lions was a remarkable French mathematician, with multiple students of note currently working the US, including Roger Temam … More
Equations Don’t “Govern” Reality
The experiences I have had working with scientists has broadened my worldview in several different ways. Pretty much all of … More
Applied Mathematics as a Scholarly Field
Having recently talked about the validity of pure mathematics as a scholarly field, I feel the need to defend my … More
Mathematics as a Scholarly Field
I have been known to be critical of the attitudes of the math community, but I want to be very … More
Attending the Severe Storms Conference
I had a paper accepted to the Severe Local Storms conference, an American Meteorological Society conference that is especially for … More
Uncertainty
One thing we enjoy in mathematics is certainty of our knowledge. This is because the things we know are logically … More