Courses, Fall '09

• Physics 103, Foundations of Physics
• Math 339: Fourier and other Eignefunction Expansions

Recent Course Development

• Physics 204, Physics in Proportion
• Galileo

Recent Papers

• The Geometry of Ciliary Dynamics, Phys. Rev. E80 (2009), 011923.
• Lagrangian Crumpling Equations, January 2009.
• The Geometry of Paradise, The Mathematical Intelligencer 30 (Fall, 2008), pp. 14-19.
• Elliptic Function Representation of Doubly Periodic Stokes Flows", (August, 2006) with Danti Chen '09 and Becky Ding '09.
• Galileo's Discovery of Scaling Laws, American Journal of Physics 70 (2002), p.575.
• Turbulence on a Desktop, Computers in Science and Engineering, May/June 2001.
• "Mathematical Meristems," Ecoles des Houches No. 14, Branching in Nature ed. V. Fleury, J.-F. Gouyet, and M. Leonetti, EDP Sciences, Les Ulis 2001.
• Nonuniqueness and Turbulence , preprint.
• Singular Laplacian Growth , Physical Review E57 (1998), 3221.
• The Geometry of Piero della Francesca, The Mathematical Intelligencer, vol 19 (Summer, '97), 33-40.
• `` Theory of Deformable Substrates for Cell Motility Studies," Biophysical Journal 71, (1996), 657-669.
• `` Membrane Hydrodynamics at Low Reynolds Number," Physical Review E53, (1996), 731.
• Laboratories in mathematical experimentation (Springer, 1997. Projects for a sophomore course in mathematical investigation; written by the members of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mount Holyoke College)

Book Reviews

• The Invention of Infinity, by J.V. Field, Nexus Network Journal April 1999.
• The Architectonics of Humanism, Nexus Network Journal, April 2000.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Projects

• Evolution of Planar Domains (1988)
• The Red Blood Cell Shape (1989)
• Laplacian Growth (1992)
• Models of Turbulence (1999)

Applets

• Mod P Calculator

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