Current students

Michael Chiwere

Ph.D. student in the Computing Program
Project: Spectral methods for complex fluids

Former students

Ph.D. students

Andrew Jones

Ph.D. in Computational Math, Science & Engineering, 2022
Thesis: Meshfree Methods for PDEs on Surfaces
Currently a Postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories

Kathryn Drake

Ph.D. in Computational Math, Science & Engineering, 2020
Thesis: A Collection of Fast Algorithms for Scalar and Vector-Valued Data on Irregular Domains: Spherical Harmonic Analysis, Divergence-Free/Curl-Free Radial Basis Functions, and Implicit Surface Reconstruction
Currently a Senior Automation Engineer at Apple

M.S. students

Sage Shaw
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, 2019
Thesis: Radial Basis Function Finite Difference Approximations of the Laplace-Beltrami Operator
Currently a Ph.D. student in Applied Math at CU Boulder

Kathryn Drake
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, 2017
Thesis: A Stable Algorithm for Divergence-Free and Curl-Free Radial Basis Functions in the Flat Limit
Received Ph.D. (2020) in Computational Math, Science & Engineering at Boise State University

Heather Wilber
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, 2016
Thesis: Numerical Computing with Functions on the Sphere and Disk
Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Math at the University of Washington.

Kevin Aiton
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, 2014
Thesis: A Radial Basis Function Partition of Unity Method for Transport on the Sphere
Received Ph.D. (2019) in Applied Mathematics at University of Delaware

Joseph Lohmeier
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, 2011
Thesis: A Fictitious Point Method for Handling Boundary Conditions in the RBF-FD Method

B.S. students

Scott Aiton
B.S. in Applied Mathematics, 2020
Project: ThunderEgg: A parallel iterative solver for elliptic equations on adaptively refined block-structured Cartesian grids