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Please welcome our new faculty member Micah Webster. Micah has a B.S. in Mathematics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and both M.S. and Ph.D in Mathematics from University of California, Irvine
An introduction from Micah:
“At 17, I became fascinated with mathematics. From studying the accident in our high school parking lot to looking at the effectiveness of aspirin, calculus left me wanting more. As an undergraduate student, I was exposed to not only the many applications of mathematics, but also its ability to instill critical thinking and problem solving skills in its students. As a math teacher, I focus on intuition, critical thinking, problem solving and of course applications!
My research area is nonlinear diffusions. I enjoy considering both theoretical and numerical questions. Coding models on a computer is a great way to gain intuition for theoretical results and to see your model in action. For example as a graduate student, I studied a model that describes how a chemical will travel through a polymer. The numerical results I produced on the computer gave me the insight I needed to go on and prove theoretical results. The main application of this work is in pharmaceuticals. My current research interest is image processing.”
