Brian Estervig                   
Graduate Student

447 Carver Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011

Brief Resume

Schedule


Advisors: Paul Sacks and Anastasios Matzavinos

Research interests:
Inverse Problems, Imaging, Mathematical Modeling, Financial Math, Mathematics Education


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The picture on the right is a solution to the Travelling Salesman problem based on the picture on the left (using a cheapest insertion algorithm)


Teaching Summer 2013:
Math 265: Calculus III

Courses Taught:
Actuarial Exam Course: Math 490 Financial Mathematics (Spring 2013)
Math 140 College Algebra Section M (Fall 2012)
Study Group leader, Applied Math Ph.D Qualifying exam (Summer 2012)
Lead TA: Special Math Instruction  (Fall 2011/Spring 2012)
Math 141/142 Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry (Summer 2011)
Math 166 Calculus II Section Z (Spring 2011)
Math 165 Calculus I (Recitations) (Fall 2010)
Math 10  High School Algebra (Summer 2010)
Math 165 Calculus I (Recitations) (Spring 2010)
Math 150 Discrete Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences (Recitations) (Fall 2009)
Courses Taken:

Spring 2013

Math 555X Continuous Optimization

Fall 2012
Math 556X Discrete Optimization
Stat 402 Statistical Design and the Analysis of Experiments

Spring 2012
Math 656 Partial Differential Equations II
Stat 451 Applied Time Series Methods

Fall 2011

Math 655 Partial Differential Equations I
Econ 302 Intermediate Macroeconomics
Stat 401 Statistics for Research Workers

Summer 2011
Fin 310 Corporate Finance

Spring 2011
Math 517 Finite Difference Methods
Math 562 Numerical Analysis II
Math 646 Mathematical Modelling of Complex Physical Systems

Fall 2010
Math 510 Linear Algebra
Math 561 Numerical Analysis I

Summer 2010
Seminar: Inverse Problems in Medical Imaging

Spring 2010
Math 520 Introduction to Applied Mathematics II
Math 511 Functions of a Single Complex Variable
Math 690W Mixing in Markov Chains and Random Graphs

Fall 2009
Math 515 Real Analysis I
Math 519 Introduction to Applied Mathematics I
Math 557 Ordinary Differential Equations I

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