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Philip C.
Nelson
(On Leave
for Fall 2009)
Graduate Student
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
1000 Hilltop Circle,
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone: TBD
Email: nelsonp@umbc.edu
Office: MP 201
Hours: Open
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Short Bio
I am a second-year graduate student in Mathematics here at UMBC. I am from Bergenfield, NJ.
I received my
Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts at Bergen
Community College in Paramus, NJ in 2005
and my Bachelor’s in Mathematics from William
Paterson University in Wayne, NJ in 2008.
In the Summer of 2007, I
came to UMBC to participate in the department’s
Summer Program in Computational Biology
under the direction of Dr.
Jonathan Bell.
At the present time I
express interest in areas of Numerical Analysis and Computational Biology
for research.
My Master’s Thesis
Advisor is Dr. Matthias Gobbert.
Working Title for Thesis: Performance
Studies for Time-Stepping Methods used for Reaction-Diffusion Equations
Click
here for my CV
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Current Schedule (Fall
2009)
MON TUE WED THUR FRI
10:00-
11:00
11:00-
12:00
I’M CURRENTLY ON
LEAVE FOR FALL 2009
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Course Load for Fall
2009
- MATH999 – Leave of Absence
(Previous Courses)
Summer 2009
Spring
2009
- MATH401 – Real Analysis II (Dr. T.
Armstrong)
- MATH630 – Matrix Analysis (Dr. S. Minkoff)
- MATH650 – Foundations of Optimization (Dr. O. Guler)
Fall
2008
Services for Fall 2009
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Previous Services
Summer 2009
- Instructor J - MATH426: Introduction to MATLab
(Course
Blog, Course Webpage)
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
- Teacher Assistant for MATH151-801 and 802
– Calculus I, Amanda Gassman
(Summary and
Responses to TA Evaluations)
(Discussion
Session Policies) (Discussion
Notes)
- Grader for MATH475 – Combinatorics and Graph Theory, Dr. T. Armstrong
(Grading
Policies)
- SIAM Student Chapter Website Maintainer
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Some Quick-Reference
Guides I have made:
- Introduction
to Mathematica (Calculus) (2nd
ed. Summer 2008, original: Spring 2008)
This was intended for
students of Multivariable Calculus (MATH251 here) at William Paterson
University.
Whenever a Mathematica assignment was assigned, students were
to copy the syntax verbatim without any
knowledge of what the
commands meant. Furthermore I
wrote this with the intention that students will be
able to take
advantage of the availability of the software so that they may check
their work.
The document goes
over many basic arithmetic commands, transcendental functions, syntax
writing,
using the symbolic
tool box, performing calculus operations analytically and numerically,
and plotting
functions.
There are plans for another guide
for more advanced topics in Mathematica.
- Accessing
your UNIX account from a Windows Machine Remotely (Summer 2008)
I originally wrote
this for the SPCB Program, but the idea of accessing UMBC software
remotely was
dismissed.
The document is
pretty wordy and includes no images to date, but if you follow the
guide step by step, you
will be able to
access MATLab @ UMBC for example remotely
from your windows machine at home.
This will be revised in the Summer
09
- Introduction to MATLab (Linear Algebra) (Summer 2008)
This
was intended for students of Linear Algebra (MATH221 here) at William Paterson University.
The goal of this was
to expose the math majors to some of the software that is rarely taken
advantage of in
the department. The document goes over performing
matrix algebra and solving systems of equations.
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- Introduction to MATLab Programming (Numerical Analysis) (Summer
2008)
At the same time as
the guide above, I’ve been working on one that covers basic programming,
again intended
for students at
William Paterson University.
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Links
SIAM Student Chapter
Webpage (Prototype)
The people of the Department of
Mathematics & Statistics at UMBC
My webpage at William
Paterson University
My “Undergraduate
CV”
(Undergraduate) Presentation from
SPCB Program
(Undergraduate) Presentation at
AMS/MAA-NJ
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