My new postdoctoral job involves the investigation of ways that we can use observations from a special class of instruments…
My New Postdoc
I started my postdoctoral position with the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) on September 1. My new work is somewhere…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Uncertainty
One thing we enjoy in mathematics is certainty of our knowledge. This is because the things we know are logically…