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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" > <head> <title>Colin Macdonald</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <style type="text/css">@import url('style.css');</style> <link rel="canonical" href="https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cbm" /> </head> <body>  <div>  <h1>Colin B. Macdonald</h1> <img class="lalign" src="cbm-portrait2008.jpg" width="260" height="280" alt="picture of Colin" />    <p> Associate Professor, <a href="https://www.math.ubc.ca">Dept of Mathematics</a><br /> The University of British Columbia </p> <p> email: cbm<span class="emailsym">[at]</span>math.ubc.ca or cbm<span class="emailsym">[at]</span>m.fsf.org<br /> www: <a href="https://www.math.ubc.ca/~cbm">https://www.math.ubc.ca/~cbm</a><br /> office: LSK 303c   </p> <p> <strong>Previous positions</strong></br > Associate Professor (2014–2015, <a href="https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk">Mathematical Institute</a>, University of Oxford)<br /> University Lecturer (2009–2014, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)<br /> Tutorial Fellow (2009–2015, <a href="http://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk">Oriel College</a>, University of Oxford)<br /> Postdoc (2008–2009, <a href="http://www.math.ucla.edu">UCLA Math Dept</a> with <a href="http://www.math.ucla.edu/~sjo">Stan Osher</a>)<br /> Ph.D. (<a href="http://www.math.sfu.ca">SFU</a>, 2008, with <a href="http://www.math.sfu.ca/~sruuth">Steve Ruuth</a>)<br /> M.Sc. (SFU, 2003, with Steve Ruuth)<br /> B.Sc. (<a href="http://www.acadiau.ca">Acadia</a> University, 2001, with <a href="http://www.cs.usask.ca/~spiteri">Ray Spiteri</a>)<br /> </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div>  <img class="ralign" src="colin_questions.jpg" alt="Questions?" width="180" height="120" /> <h2>Teaching</h2> <p>Current and past teaching includes</p> <ul> <li><a href="math200/2023w1/">2023 W1 Math 200</a></li> <li><a href="math405/2023/">2023 W1 Math 405</a></li> <li>Math 101</li> <li><a href="math253/">Math 253</a></li> <li><a href="math405/">Math 405/607E</a></li> <li><a href="math102/">Math 102</a></li> <li><a href="math152/">Math 152</a></li> <li>Science One</li> <li>Math 264</li> </ul>   <div style="clear:both;"></div> <h2>Research Team</h2> <p> Most recently I've worked with <a href="http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/contact/details/vonglehn">Ingrid von Glehn</a>, <a href="http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/contact/details/cheny1">Yujia Chen</a>, and <a href="https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/contact/details/maerz">Tom M盲rz</a>. See <a href="research">more information about my group</a> including <a href="research/index.html#opportunities">opportunities for students</a>. </p> <a href="cpm"><img class="ralign" src="klein-thumbnail.png" alt="Klein bottle" width="180" height="150" /></a> <h2>Research Interests</h2> <ul> <li>List of <a href="publications.html">publications</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="closestpoint">Closest Point Method</a>: a new method for PDEs on surfaces.</li> <li>Time-stepping for PDEs: constructing Runge-Kutta methods, strong-stability-preserving methods (visit the <a href="http://www.cfm.brown.edu/people/sg/SSPpage/sspsite">SSP Site</a>).</li> <li><acronym title="Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory">WENO</acronym> spatial discretizations.</li> <li>The Predicted Sequential Regularization Method.</li> <li>List of <a href="talks">talks and presentations</a>.</li> </ul> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <img class="ralign" src="cbm-studying.jpg" alt="Colin studying" width="180" height="120" /> <h2>Mathematics</h2> <ul> <li><a href="phdthesis">Ph.D. thesis</a>, <a href="mscthesis">M.Sc. thesis</a>, <a href="bscthesis">B.Sc. thesis</a>.</li>  <li>Forest fire <a href="2007bcsim">simulations</a> using level set methods.</li>   <li>Various <a href="projects">course projects</a>, the 2002 <a href="gimmc5"><acronym title="Graduate Mathematics Modelling Camp">GIMMC5</acronym> report</a>, and <a href="http://www.maths-in-industry.org/173"><acronym title="Industrial Problem Solving Workshop">IPSW6</acronym></a> <a href="macdonald_ong-ipsw6-writeup.ps.gz">reports</a>.</li> <li>Miscellaneous material from the SFU applied math <a href="seminar">seminars</a>.</li>    <li>View or download an electronic copy of <a href="aands"><em>Abramowitz and Stegun: Handbook of Mathematical Functions</em></a>.</li> <li>The <a href="fluid-movies">Virtual Album of Hollywood Fluid Motion</a>.</li>  </ul>  <div style="clear:both;"></div> <h2>Miscellaneous</h2>  <img class="ralign" src="cbm-kayaking.jpg" alt="kayaking" width="180" height="120" /> <p>My <a href="latex">LaTeX</a> page.</p>   <p>A <a href="pics">photo gallery</a> of some of my pictures (currently empty).</p> <p><a href="errh"><i>101 Illustrated Analysis Bedtime Stories</i></a>: the story of “epsilon-Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem”.</p>    <p><br /></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div class="firstfloatbox"> I use <a href="http://www.fsf.org">Free Software</a><br /> <a href="http://www.fsf.org"><img alt="GNU Mascot" src="gnu_head_color_small.png" width="80" height="78" /></a><br/> </div> <div class="floatbox"> Numerical computing<br /> in <a href="http://www.scipy.org">SciPy</a> and <a href="http://numpy.scipy.org">NumPy</a><br /> <img src="SciPy_logo.png" alt="" width="150" /> </div> <div class="floatbox"> <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/join/button"> <img src="eliminate_DRM.gif" alt="Eliminate DRM!" width="110" height="32" /></a><br /> <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/join/button"> Defective by design</a> </div> <div class="floatbox"> I choose to<br />innovate without<br /> <a href="http://endsoftpatents.org"> software patents</a>. </div>  <div style="clear:both;"></div> </div>  <hr /> <p class="legal">Copyright © 2002–2023 Colin Macdonald.<br /> Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire document is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.</p> <p class="footer">Updated: 2023-08-29</p> <p class="footer"> [<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">XHTML 1.1</a>] [<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">CSS</a>] </p> </body> </html>