Lab opens! Renovations on the interdisciplinary XMAC lab (eXperiment, Modeling, Analysis and computation) are complete. Stay tuned for a new section of this website describing lab research on insect aggregations, control of chemical patterns, and more.

Attend events at the SIAM Annual Meeting in San Diego, July 7 - 11, 2008. I am presenting some recent work in a session on dynamical systems. I am also co-organizing a minisymposium on undergraduate research in dynamical systems and a subprogram of the conference poster session that is on undergraduate research.

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

New publication: A model for rolling swarms of locusts, European Physical Journal ST (157) 93 - 109.

New preprint: Asymptotic dynamics of attractive-repulsive swarms.

Senior math majors work on capstone projects in pharmacokinetics (Stephanie Abascal), HIV epidemiology in Swaziland (Innocent Dlamini), ad-hoc mobile networks (Chris Dragga), and chaotic generation of musical variations (Sarah Sutter).

Podcasts of selected presentations -- including student projects from Macalester’s Math 432: Mathematical Modeling course -- are now online, here.

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: 5/6/08.