Ian Sammis

1068 Evans Hall

Howdy! I'm a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics here at Berkeley, studying numerical analysis.

Teaching: Summer 2008

I am not teaching Summer Semester 2008.

Research

I am working for John Strain. I’m primarily interested in moving interface problems, but in the course of that I've wandered fairly far afield. My principal interests are:

In the past, I've also worked on the following:

  • Self-organized criticality
    • (with Dr. Carlson, at UCSB)
  • Solar Physics
    • (with Dr. Zirin, at Caltech)
  • 0-1 contingency tables
    • (with Dr. Hosten, at SFSU)

Blog

On the theory that everyone should have a blog, here's mine. At the time I wrote this main page, I've been averaging about one post per year.

Job Search

I am on the job market in 2008. Here are the traditional documents:

Elementary Numerical Analysis

As a hobby, I've been trying to develop a course on numerics that could be taught with Calculus I as a corequisite. The goal would be to teach key concepts—roundoff error, numerical stability, convergence, and linear system conditioning—in a very basic way that would make students in the natural sciences aware of the issues involved. The course would include a certain amount of C programming.

Initial course notes are here.