Category Archives: proud dad

Of my favorite things …

Posted on 4 April 2016 by ecoquant

(Clarifying language added 4 Apr 2016, 12:26 EDT.) I just watched an episode from the last season of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled “Force of Nature.” As anyone who pays the least attention to this blog knows, opposing human … Continue reading →

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“1D Wave with Delta Potential and Triangle Initial Position” (Jeff Galkowski, Stanford)

Posted on 1 December 2015 by ecoquant

The latest calculations from Jeff Galkowski, of Stanford.

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Waves in transmission problems ( by Jeff Galkowski)

Posted on 6 October 2015 by ecoquant

“Distribution of resonances in scattering by thin barriers“, by Jeff Galkowski, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University. The lecture: “A solution to the wave equation for the transparent obstacle with speed 0.5. Damping is placed near the boundary of what is … Continue reading →

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Super Hydrophobic Materials

Posted on 26 August 2015 by ecoquant

Hat tip to Jeff Galkowski, my son, post-doc in Mathematics at McGill University and at Stanford University, a University of Rochester grad, who recently received a doctorate in Mathematics from University of California, Berkeley.

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Jeff’s lecture in Banff (update)

Posted on 7 May 2015 by ecoquant

Updated, 2015-09-29 Jeff is now an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mathematics Department at Stanford University. My son, Jeff, is graduating this month from the University of California, Berkeley, with a doctorate in Mathematics. His thesis title is “Distribution of … Continue reading →

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