Students
Over the years, I've been fortunate enough to work with great students. They have each continued on to academic employment, staff positions at national laboratories, or tech jobs in industry, and all of them have provided me with some really amazing experiences.
Current Graduate Students
Grace Mattingly - Ph.D. student (exp. 2026)
Colorado School of Mines (2021- )
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2022-2025)
Projects:
Scattering and Decay Rates of Solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson and Vlasov-Maxwell systems
Quantitative Approximation of Rates of Stability and Instability in Collisionless Plasmas
Lucas Schauer - Ph.D. student (exp. 2024)
Colorado School of Mines (2019- )
(co-advised with Dave Benson - Hydrology)
Poster Award - 2022 Gordon Research Conference "Flow and Transport in Permeable Media"
Projects:
"Parallelized Domain Decomposition for Multi-Dimensional Lagrangian Random Walk, Mass-Transfer Particle Tracking Schemes" Geoscientific Model Development (2023) 16: 833–849 (.pdf).
Multi-dimensional Particle-tracking Methods with Heterogeneous Velocity Fields and Nonlinear Reaction Dynamics
Current Undergraduate Research Students
Benjamin Longaker
Colorado School of Mines (2022-)
CSM UG Research Fellow (2022-)
Project: Quantitative Approximation of Rates of Stability and Instability in Collisionless Plasmas
Nolan Palmer
Colorado School of Mines (2023-)
CSM UG Research Fellow (2023-)
Project: Quantitative Approximation of Rates of Stability and Instability in Collisionless Plasmas
Logan Pike
Colorado School of Mines (2023-)
CSM UG Interdisciplinary Research Fellow (2023-)
Project: Nonlinear Dimension Reduction and Machine Learning Methods for Coarse-graining Macromolecules
Leah Bandy
Colorado School of Mines (2023-)
CSM UG Interdisciplinary Research Fellow (2023-)
Project: Nonlinear Dimension Reduction and Machine Learning Methods for Coarse-graining Macromolecules
Previous Graduate Students
Kaitlyn Martinez, Ph.D.
Colorado School of Mines (2015-2020)
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2017-2020)
Currently: Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Projects:
“Spatially-heterogeneous embedded stochastic SEIR models for the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa” Spatial and Spatiotemporal Epidemiology (2022) 41: 100505 (.pdf).
"An unsupervised multi-objective feature selection method with applications to environmental and demographic data in Brazil" (submitted)
Michael Schmidt, Ph.D.
Colorado School of Mines (2015-2019)
(co-advised with Dave Benson - Hydrology)
Currently: Staff Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories
Projects:
"A Lagrangian Method for Reactive Transport with Solid-Liquid Interaction" Journal of Computational Physics (2019) 2: 100021 (.pdf).
"Numerical Equivalence Between SPH and Probabilistic Mass Transfer Methods for Lagrangian Simulation of Dispersion", Advances in Water Resources (2019) 126: 108-115 (.pdf).
"On the accuracy of random-walk particle-based mass-transfer algorithms", Advances in Water Resources (2018) 117: 115-119 (.pdf).
"A Kernel-based Lagrangian Method for Imperfectly-Mixed Chemical Reactions", Journal of Computational Physics (2017) 336: 288-307 (.pdf)
Deborah Shutt, Ph.D.
Colorado School of Mines (2012 - 2017)
(co-advised with Aaron Porter - AMS)
Currently: Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Projects:
"Bistable dynamics and Hopf bifurcation in an early stage model of HIV infection", Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B (2020) 25(8): 2867-2893 (.pdf)
"Estimating the reproductive number, total outbreak size, and reporting rates for Zika epidemics in South and Central America” Epidemics (2017) 21 pp. 63-79 (.pdf)
"An in-host model of HIV incorporating Latent Infection and Viral Mutation", Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations, and Applications, AIMS Proceedings (2015) pp. 913-922 (.pdf)
Nhat Thanh Tran, M.S.
Colorado School of Mines (2018-2020)
M.S. Project: Entropic Penalization Methods in Particle-tracking Simulations
Paper: "A Computational Information Criterion for Particle-tracking with Sparse or Noisy data", Advances in Water Resources (2021) 151: 103893 (.pdf).
Currently: Ph.D. student at UC Irvine
Nathan Neri, M.S.
Colorado School of Mines (2014-2016)
M.S. Project: A Refined Model of the Acute Stage of HIV Infection
"Bistable Dynamics and Hopf Bifurcation in a Model of the Acute Stage of HIV Infection", Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B (2020) 25(8): 2867-2893 (.pdf).
Currently: Senior Software Engineer at Saga Education
Benjamin Sattelberg, M.S.
Colorado School of Mines (2015-2016)
M.S. Project: Global Sensitivity Metrics for Plasmas using Particle-in-cell Methods
Currently: Ph.D. student at Colorado State (Computer Science)
Christian Parkinson, M.S.
Colorado School of Mines (2013-2015)
M.S. Project: Analysis of Spatial Model of in-host HIV dynamics
"Mathematical Analysis of an in-host Model of Viral Dynamics with Spatial Heterogeneity", Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B, (2016) 21: 1237-1257 (.pdf)
Ph.D. 2020, UCLA
Currently: Postdoc at University of Arizona
Tyson Loudon, M.S.
Colorado School of Mines (2014-2015)
M.S. Project: Parameter reduction using active subspaces in a long-term model of HIV
"Mathematical Analysis and Dynamic Active Subspaces for a Long-term model of HIV", Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (2017) 14: 709-733 (.pdf)
Ph.D. 2021, University of Minnesota
Currently: Consultant, Department of Defense
David Hickman, M.S.
Colorado School of Mines (2013-2014)
M.S. Project: Molecular Modeling & Simulation using Particle Swarm Optimization - Master's Thesis (.pdf)
Currently: Data Engineering Manager, Enverus
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Jennifer Anderson, M.S.
University of Texas at Arlington (2009-2010)
M.S. Project: A One-dimensional Kinetic Model of Plasma Dynamics with a Transport Field - Master's Thesis (.pdf)
Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University (Several Complex Variables)
Previous Undergraduate Research Students
Cameron Clarke
Colorado School of Mines (2021-2023)
CSM UG Research Fellow (2021-2023)
Project: Three-stage modeling of in-host HIV dynamics and computational implementation of anti-retroviral therapy
Currently: PhD student (Physics) at Colorado School of Mines
Eric Jones
Colorado School of Mines (2013-2015)
CSM UG Research Fellow (2013-2015)
Project: Long-term modeling of in-host HIV dynamics
Paper: "Analysis and Simulation of the three-component model of HIV dynamics", in SIAM Undergraduate Research Online (2014) 7: 89-106 (.pdf)
Janet L. Andersen Award for Undergraduate Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology award at 2015 MAA MathFest
Ph.D. (Physics) 2020, UCSB
Currently: Banting and PIMS Postdoc at Simon Frasier
Kevin Rozmiarek
Colorado School of Mines (2014-2015 )
CSM UG Research Fellow (2014-2015)
Project: Modeling the spread of HIV in Gut-associated Lymphoid Tissue (GALT)
Currently: Research Scientist, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, CU Boulder
ENS Peter Roemer
U.S. Naval Academy (2012-2013)
Dustin Brewer
University of Texas at Arlington (2009-2010)
CURM Fellow
Paper: "Computational Methods for a One-dimensional Plasma Model with a Transport Field" SIAM Undergraduate Research Online (2011) 4: 81-104 (.pdf)
SIAM award at 2010 MAA MathFest
M.S. 2013, Columbia University (Operations Research & Computational Finance)
Currently: VP at Credit Suisse
Charles Nguyen
University of Texas at Arlington (2009-2010)
CURM Fellow
Honors Project: A One-dimensional Kinetic Model of Plasma Dynamics with a Hyperbolic Field - thesis (.pdf)
Paper: "A One-dimensional Kinetic Model of Plasma Dynamics with a Transport Field" Evolution Equations and Control Theory (2014) 3: 681-698 (.pdf)
M.S. 2012, University of Texas at Arlington (Statistics)
Currently: Lead Data Scientist at Hilton
Robert Allen
University of Texas at Arlington (2009-2010)
CURM Fellow
Paper: "Instability of some BGK Waves for the Vlasov-Poisson System" European Physical Journal D (2014) 68: 363-370 (.pdf)
Ph.D. 2017, University of Texas at San Antonio (Southwestern Research Institute)
Currently: Space Physicist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
Jamil Ortoleva
Indiana University (2007-2008)
Paper: "Stochastic Dynamics of Bionanosystems: Multiscale Analysis and Specialized Ensembles" (with Y. Miao, Z. Shreif, and P. Ortoleva) J. Chem. Phys. 128 (2008) 234908 (.pdf)
M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University
Currently: Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Tufts University School of Medicine
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