Recent happenings

Sabbatical: To my students and colleagues... For the 2009 - 2010 academic year, I will be in residence at the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Mathematics and its Applications as a New Directions Research Professor, attending the program on Complex Fluids and Fluid Flows.

Student summer research: Amelia McNamara (’10) is studying control of Turing patterns in chemical reaction-diffusion systems. Joe Novak (’09, incoming Ph.D. student at UC Boulder) is modeling semiochemical-mediated aphid/ant interactions. Chris Wulf and Manan Gupta (Wofford College students) and Anne Catlla (Wofford College faculty) are in residence, collaborating on Turing pattern experiments.

Undergraduate research poster session: I am co-organizing a student research poster session to take place on July 7, 2009 at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Denver.

New publication: Asymptotic dynamics of attractive-repulsive swarms, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (to appear).

Workshop: In May, Anne Catlla and I organized Forced Chemical Patterns, a minisymposium at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems.

New publication: Blogs and Wikis as Instructional Tools: A Social Software Adaptation of Just-in-Time Teaching, appearing in College Teaching.

In the news

Article: Andy Johnson’s work on motion tracking of Pea Aphids is featured in Macalester Now.

Article: The XMAC lab is featured in Mac Wire in Macalester’s alumni magazine.

Interview: Listen to this podcast to learn about my research along with students in the XMAC interdisciplinary laboratory.

Article: My pedagogical use of blogging is mentioned UCLA’s newspaper.

I gratefully acknowledge the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences for support through grant DMS-0740484. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these pages are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Page last updated: 6/10/09.