Kai Medville

114 N. 4th Ave, Highland Park, NJ, 08904 · Phone: 347-512-6746

medville@math.rutgers.edu

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~medville


Education

 

Rutgers University, NJ, Ph.D., Mathematics (Applied Math, Partial Differential Equations)    May 2005

University of Chicago, IL, A.B., Mathematics with General Honors.  GPA:3.34/4.0   May 1997

 

Experience

 

Rutgers University,   New Brunswick, NJ

Teaching Assistant, Graduate Assistant, Lecturer September 1999-May 2005

·         Full lecturer for upper level math class on Linear Optimization.  Wrote syllabus, quizzes and midterms.

·         Teaching Assistant for Calculus I, II, III, Intro to Math Reasoning.  Graded homework and taught workshops for large lecture classes.

 

RAND Corporation,   Arlington, VA

Summer Research Intern July 2001-August 2001

·         Mathematical consultant for a new theory of the effect of asymmetric information on tactical warfare.

·         Programmed Army's COSAGE combat simulation to account for informational differences.

·         Tested the program on data from the Battle of Kursk and presented findings to a group of researchers.

 

Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,   Berkeley, CA

Scientific programmer February 1998-August 1998

·         Programmed graphics and X-Windows in C++ for high performance scientific computational simulation.

 

University of Chicago, Mathematics and Program in Financial Mathematics,   Chicago, IL

Research Assistant      May 1997-February 1998

·         Co-wrote an educational geometry software program using C++ and OpenGL graphics package.

·         Conducted lectures on MATLAB programming at the University of Chicago Program in Financial Mathematics.

 

Apollo Trading,   Chicago, IL

Clerk June 1995-August 1995

·         Clerked 10-year bond option exchange at the Chicago Board of Trade.

 

Publications

Blow up behavior of planar harmonic functions satisfying a certain exponential Neumann boundary condition, SIAM Journal of Math Analysis, to appear.  With M. Vogelius

Existence and blow up of solutions to certain classes of two dimensional nonlinear Neumann problems, Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Analyse non linéaire, to appear. With M. Vogelius

Thesis: Existence and blow up behavior of planar harmonic functions satisfying certain nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions.  Rutgers University.  May 2005.

 

Computer Skills

MATLAB, Maple, C, C++

 

Fellowships and Awards

Travel Support to visit Université de Versailles from NSF INT-0003788  (Summer 2002,2003)sit

Rutgers Graduate School Excellence Fellowship  (September 2001-May 2002)

Rutgers Dean's Summer Scholar (June 1999-August 1999)

 

Leadership Roles

Co-founder and President of Rutgers University Squash Racquets Club.)