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Education

·       B. S. in Applied Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (Spring 2013)

·       Summa cum laude (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

·       President’s Medal of Academic Excellence

Research Experience

·       Fractals research culminating in paper.  Under the supervision of Dr. Denis Blackmore, explored fractal dimension and Weierstrass-Mandelbrot functions of one and two variables  (Fall 2011-2013)

·        Gave presentation titled “Euler-Lagrange Equations: Shapes of Charged Droplets,” under the supervision of Dr. Cyrill Muratov.  Developed an iterative shooting method to search for possible 2D curves which minimize an appropriate energy function  (Spring 2012)

·       Granular materials project, working in a group supervised by Dr. Lou Kondic.  Developed code for processing experimental images and analyzed fractal dimension of resulting force chains (Spring 2012)

 

Publications

·       A. Zaleski, Fractals and the Weierstrass-Mandelbrot function, Rose-Hulman Undergrad. Math J. 13, No. 2, (2012), 78-113.

·       C. B. Muratov and A. Zaleski. On an isoperimetric problem with a competing non-local term: Quantitative results. Ann. Global Anal. Geom., 2014 (to appear). Preprint: arXiv:1403.7808.

 

Talks

·       “Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach,” Rutgers mathematics department Pizza Seminar, April 4, 2014.

 

Honors, Awards, and Activities

·       Dean’s List  (Fall 2008-2013)

·       Ahluwalia Scholarship for Applied Math   (2008-2013)

·       Inducted into NJIT chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon National Mathematics Honorary Society  (Fall 2010)

·       Enid Dame Poetry Contest, third place prize  (Spring 2011)

·       Enid Dame Poetry Contest, first place prize  (Spring 2013)

·       Tae-Kwon-Do student, currently 1st degree black belt  (2007-present)

·       Taught Tae-Kwon-Do classes (2007-present)

·       Altar server at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church  (2009-2013)

·       Volunteered at Vacation Bible School  (August 2011)

 

Teaching Experience

·       Tutored high school students in algebra and geometry  (October 2012-present)

·       Assisted in pre-calculus class (Spring 2013)

·       Participated in the Rutgers mathematics department’s TA training course (Spring 2014)

 

Computer Skills

·       I am acquainted with C++.  I am highly proficient in MATLAB, with which I have written simple stochastic simulations, solvers for both ordinary and partial differential equations, and functions for processing and analyzing batches of experimental granular materials images.  I have also used Maple for symbolic applications including computer proofs. 

Research Interests

·       I am interested in applied and computational math, including modeling dynamical systems and natural phenomena.  Experimental math—using symbolic programs such as Maple to assist proofs—also interests me.  Finally, I might like to investigate problems of morphogenesis and pattern emergence.

 

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