Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia

Teaching

• In July 2025 I taught an SL Math Summer Course Computer Assisted Proofs in Applied Mathematics with Jonathan Jaquette.
• Fall 2025, I am teaching Mathematics Through 3D Printing, a course I have developed.
• Teaching
• Students
• I have advised vertically integrated graduate-undergraduate research projects at MEGL, most recently “Predicting Flood Zones Using Topological Data Analysis”.

Research

My current research is primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and mathematical visualization and design. Recent research includes

• Study of quasiperiodicity and chaos
• Computational methods for studying dynamics
• Rigorous computation of bifurcations
• Phase field models in materials science
• 3D printing of mathematical objects

Patrick R. Bishop, Summer Chenoweth, Emmanuel Fleurantin, Alonso Ogueda-Oliva, Julia Seay, and I have an upcoming paper on 3D Printing Invariant Manifolds in the AMS Notices, to appear early 2026.

For more details, see my Publications and Talks.

Service

• Former Editor-in-Chief and current Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
• Council Member, SIAM
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University

Fun stuff

• I run the GMU Math Makerlab
• Wondering about math careers? See Why Math?
• Mathematical movies