Interplay between Mathematical and Physical Reasoning

One of the challenges of doing interdisciplinary work is the constant back and forth between mathematical understanding and, for lack … More

Is there a place in Mathematics for Evidence (Rather than Proof)?

This post will likely make all of my math friends cringe. I asked this question early on in my grad … More

I wrote a short post yesterday about the notion of error statistics, and recommended a paper by Orrell, Smith, Barkmeijer … More

While working on data assimilation stuff with WRF and it’s variational companion WRFDA, I have been thinking a lot about different types … More

This week there was a workshop on methods for assimilating radar data into numerical weather prediction models. Although I’m not … More

My new postdoctoral job involves the investigation of ways that we can use observations from a special class of instruments … More

I started my postdoctoral position with the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) on September 1. My new work is somewhere … More

Jean Jacque Lions was a remarkable French mathematician, with multiple students of note currently working the US, including Roger Temam … More

The experiences I have had working with scientists has broadened my worldview in several different ways. Pretty much all of … More

Having recently talked about the validity of pure mathematics as a scholarly field, I feel the need to defend my … More