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Currently a 6th-year graduate student and former Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow finishing up a PhD in Chemical Engineering at MIT (expected completion June or July, 2012).


Feb
19
awarded  Yearling
Feb
15
answered Convexity of a function
Apr
18
awarded  Commentator
Apr
18
comment How many significant figures are needed in base 2?
@Must: I don't know yet. Let me consult with the math mods.
Apr
18
comment How many significant figures are needed in base 2?
Question is very close to a cross-post on scicomp.SE.
Apr
4
awarded  Citizen Patrol
Apr
4
comment Contiguous prime numbers with MPI (Want more ideas for an efficient algorithm)
Math.SE mods: Cross post on scicomp.SE.
Apr
1
comment Contiguous prime numbers with MPI (Want more ideas for an efficient algorithm)
scicomp.SE would also gladly take your question; we take lots of questions on MPI, and on the practical implementation of parallel algorithms. (I'm a mod on scicomp.SE.)
Feb
10
comment Rapid approximation of $\tanh(x)$
I thought about that algorithm, too, until I saw the "no table lookup" part.
Feb
9
comment Matrix-Square Root
I thought about the polar decomposition method, too, when I looked at the problem, but then I thought about calculating it, looked it up, and came to a similar conclusion as J.M..
Feb
8
comment Applied ODEs in trajectory problem
Just to clarify, does $v$ have constant magnitude in the problem statement, or does $u + v$ have constant magnitude? If $u + v$ has constant magnitude, then I would expect both the magnitude and direction of $v$ to vary with the position of the boat, because $u$ is a constant vector.
Feb
7
answered Matrix-Square Root
Feb
7
answered How to show a matrix is full rank?
Feb
6
comment Find roots of sum of sinusoids
Just out of curiosity: if this equation describes the motion of a point and a line, is there any way that you could set it up differently, as a system of ODEs, where the collision event is described by the root of an equation? There are event detection algorithms for numerical integrators that work well in such circumstances.
Feb
6
awarded  Teacher
Feb
6
answered How to show a primal program is unbounded by using weak duality?
Jan
30
awarded  Supporter