I am not actually a student of Memorial University anymore. I completed my
MSc in Applied Mathematics in October 2003. Since then I have moved to
London, England, and for the past few months have been studying another
Masters course, this one in Bioengineering, at Imperial College, London,
under a Rothermere Fellowship grant. However, as an alumnus of the Math
Department of MUN, my web page, set up through theirs, is still
operational. This page highlights the details of my education in both MUN
ad Imperial, research interests, travelling adventures and my life in
general. Enjoy!
Education
Current:
MSc student in Bioengineering, Imperial College, London
Supervisor: Professor Kim Parker
Expected date of completion: September 2004
Future plans:
PhD in Tissue Engineering, Materials Department, Imperial College, London
Supervisor: Dr Molly Stevens
Commencing: October 2004
MSc (Applied Mathematics), Memorial University, 2003
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Foster
BSc, Memorial University, 2001
Major - Applied Mathematics
Minor - Chemistry
Teaching Experience
During my MSc at MUN I taught a course in introductory calculus at MUN,
most recently in the Fall 2002 Semester, and previously in the Winter
2002 Semester:
Research
- The research areas I was interested in during my first MSc
included mathematical physiology and
dynamical systems. For my thesis I carried out a detailed analysis of the
Morris-Lecar model with delayed recurrent feedback. Details can be found
at here.
- My current MSc research involves the dynamics of left ventricular
filling in the heart. We plan to develop a fluid mechanical model which
can capture the salient features of this complex and poorly-understood yet
profoundly important biological process.
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For my PhD, I plan to delve into the new and exciting realm of tissue
engineering. The project should involve running cell cultures, and
to develop mathematical and computational models of novel tissue
engineering scaffolds and their properties (eg porosity, sites of cellular
attachment, etc.).
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Previous research includes cycle decomposition of graphs. In the summer of
2000 I held an undergraduate NSERC (National Sciences and Engineering
Research Council - Canada) research grant, during which I worked with Dr
David Pike of Memorial University. We established the necessary and
sufficient conditions required for the 8-Cycle decomposition
of the Carterian product of two complete graphs. In doing so, we also
generated a list of minimum possible leaves attainable with maximum
8-Cycle packings of complete graphs. Our results have recently been
published in The Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and
Combinatorial Computing 49 (2004) 129-157.
Committees
I was a member of the MITACS Student Advisory Committee (SAC) in 2003, the
inaugural member from Eastern Canada. MITACS is the Networks of Centers of
Excellence for Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems.
In March of 2003, the first annual MITACS Atlantic Interchange was held at
Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This was a one-day
networking event to encourage the exchange of ideas between students,
researchers, and industry in an intellectually stimulating environment.
The MITACS Student Newsletter, released quarterly, contains details of
previous and future conferences that may be of interest to undergrad and
postgrad student. I was co-editor of the Newsletter for its first two
issues, and has been taken over by Jarett Hailes and Irina Hole, current
SAC members.
For more details, visit the MITACS website at http://www.mitacs.math.ca.
Pictures
To see photos of my trips to conferences and overseas adventures, click here.
