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Nate Eldredge developed Mathgen, a program that randomly gener- ates professional-looking mathematics papers complete with theorems, proofs, equations, discussion and references. It is modeled after SCIgen, which generates random computer science papers. Nate, a postdoc- toral associate at Cornell University submitted the Mathgen-produced paper, “Independent, Negative, Canonically Turing Arrows of Equations and Problems in Applied Formal PDE,” and, much to his delight, it was provisionally accepted by the journal Advances in Pure Mathematics. To generate your own “research” paper, visit http://thatsmathematics.com/ mathgen/.


Galway O’Mahony and his wife, Cassie, recently celebrated the birth of their fi rst child, Logan Keane O’Mahony. Logan was born a healthy 7 lbs., 2 oz.


Jeremy Rouse is an assistant mathematics professor at Wake Forest University. He spent some time in Atlanta where he worked with another number theorist.


2004 Lindsay Crowl Erickson is a staff member in the thermal fl uids group at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif. She and


her husband welcomed their fi rst baby into the world Jan. 14, 2012.


2005 Jeffrey Hellrung earned his doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles in June 2011. His disserta-


tion was titled, “On Embedded Methods for Crack Propagation, Virtual Surgery, Shattered Objects in Computer Animation, and Elliptic Partial Differential Equations.” In July, he took a postdoctoral position with Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., then joined Google in December as a software engineer at the company’s offi ce in Venice Beach, Calif.


Carl Yerger is an assistant professor of mathematics at Davidson College in North Carolina. He continues to do research in structural graph theory and graph pebbling. He took a trip to visit collaborator Kenichi Kawarabayashi in Tokyo last summer to work on a new project related to Steinberg’s conjecture. Yerger, along with a student, also has submitted a project related to college basketball. He and another profes- sor coordinate the Charlotte Math Club, an enrichment program for talented middle- and high-school math students in the Charlotte area.


2006 Sean Fogarty married Sarah Rodenburg in October 2012, and they both changed their names to Fogenburg. Sean earned his Ph.D.


and is working on a postdoc at Princeton University.


2007 Nathan Chenette earned his Ph.D. in algorithms, combinator- ics and optimization from Georgia Tech in August 2012. He is a visiting


assistant mathematics professor at Clemson University, where his wife, Heather (Schalliol) Chenette, is working on her Ph.D. in chemical engineering and where Matt Macauley ’03 works as assistant professor of mathematics.


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Kristen Huff is a transportation planner in Los Angeles. She does spatial analyses and collects and analyzes bicycle and pedestrian count data. She writes: “The more ‘mathy’ my work is, the happier I am.”


Eugene Quan works at a quantitative trading fi rm called Headlands Technologies in his hometown of San Francisco.


2008 REUNION YEAR Parousia Rockstroh is pursuing his doctorate at Cambridge University


where he received a Cambridge Trust Scholarship. He completed his master’s at Simon Fraser University in 2011, and in spring 2012, was a visiting research scholar at Oxford University, working with faculty on mathematics and numerical analysis. His research interests are in geometric analysis and PDEs with a focus on applying techniques within these fi elds to image processing and computing on surfaces.


Sam Sobelman has been writing music for and performing in a folk-pop band called Lipstick Lumberjack (facebook.com/LipstickLumberjack). He says, “We recently put out our debut EP! We are also attempting to release a new digital single every month of 2013, leading up to the release of a brand-spankin’ new, full-length album in the second half of the year.” The EP and singles can be downloaded for free at lipsticklumberjack.bandcamp.com.


Will Tipton is a graduate student at Cornell University and has written a book, Expert Heads up No Limit Hold’em. He writes: “My approach is very game theory oriented. The challenge was to make it accessible and as valuable as possible to the average poker player while not waving my hands too much. Many of the results are original and were made possible through signifi cant computation. View the book at www.dandbpoker.com/product/expert-heads-up-no-limit-holdem-volume-1.


2010 Josh Swanson is pursuing his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle.


2012 Mathematics alumnae Lindsay Hall and Andrea Levy ’11


are featured in Careers in Applied Mathematics, published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The Mudders were among the 18 professionals featured who represent the diverse careers available to mathematicians. “If you broaden your perspective on what you can do with your interests and passions, you might fi nd yourself in a career that you never imagined—but end up loving,” said Hall, a software engineer at Google Inc., who works on the Google Docs team. Levy, a research analyst for the public policy research fi rm Acumen, LLC, shared how her work employs creative problem-solving skills that remind her of the logic puzzles she enjoyed as a child. “The applications of math are broad enough that you should be able to fi nd an overlap between math and another one of your interests,” she said.


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