Christopher Potter

Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Mathematical Sciences
PhD student in Applied Analysis & Scientific Computing since Fall 2008


Contact Information
Education History
Teaching Experience
Presentations


Contact Information

chrispotter [insert @ here] cmu [insert . here] edu
Wean Hall 6201


Education History

Bachelor of Science in Physics and Computational Science, SUNY Brockport, 2008

Master of Science in Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, 2010

At Carnegie Mellon
Fall 2008
21-620 Real Analysis ...Dr Jack Schaeffer
21-621 Lebesgue Integration ...Dr Jack Schaeffer
21-690 Methods of Optimization ...Dr Shlomo Ta'asan
21-720 Measure And Integration ...Dr Giovanni Leoni
Spring 2009
21-630 Ordinary Differential Equations ...Dr Jack Schaeffer
21-640 Functional Analysis I ...Dr Bill Hrusa
21-660 Numerical Analysis ...Dr Shlomo Ta'asan
Fall 2010
21-651 General Topology ...Dr Giovanni Leoni
21-721 Partial Differential Equations I ...Dr David Kinderlehrer
21-762 Finite Element Methods ...Dr Jason Howell
Spring 2010
21-761 Finite Difference Methods ...Dr Yekaterina Epshteyn
21-765 Parallel Programming & Scientific Computing ...Florin Manolache
21-770 Continuum Mechanics ...Dr Noel Walkington
Fall 2010
21-724 Sobolev Spaces ...Dr Giovanni Leoni
Spring 2011
21-832 Partial Differential Equations II ...Dr Dejan Slepcev
21-860 Advanced Topics: Finite Element Analysis ...Dr Noel Walkington
Fall 2011
03-712 Biological Modeling & Simulation ...Dr Russell Schwartz
10-601 Machine Learning ...Dr Tom Mitchell


Teaching Experience

As Primary Instructor
Summer 2012: 21-259-S Calculus In Three Dimensions  
Summer 2012: 21-260-U Differential Equations  
Summer 2010: 21-259-S Calculus In Three Dimensions  
As Teaching Assistant
Spring 2012: 21-241-CD Matrices and Linear Transformations ...Dr Dana Mihai
Fall 2011: 21-260-CD Differential Equations ...Dr Gregory Johnson
Summer 2011: 21-116 Differential Calculus (SAMS) ...Dr Timothy Flaherty
Spring 2011: 21-126 Introduction to Mathematical Software ...Dr Timothy Flaherty
Fall 2010: 21-259-AB Calculus in Three Dimensions ...Dr Timothy Flaherty
Spring 2010: 21-256-BD Multivariate Analysis & Approximation ...Dr Timothy Flaherty
Fall 2009: 21-260-AE Differential Equations ...Dr David Handron

Presentations

Spring 2012: Benford's Law CMU Graduate Student Seminar
Fall 2011: Interval Analysis: Idiot-Proofing Arithmetic CMU Graduate Student Seminar
Spring 2011: A Gentle Introduction to Finite Elements CMU Graduate Student Seminar
Fall 2010: The Fortuin-Kastelyn Theorem CMU Graduate Student Seminar
Spring 2010: Monte Carlo Methods for the Ising Model CMU Graduate Student Seminar
Fall 2009: Finite Element Methods For Linear Elasticity CMU Finite Elements Circus
Spring 2009: Monte Carlo Integration and the Metropolis Algorithm CMU Graduate Student Seminar