Rebecca Durst

I am currently the Wilkinson Postdoctoral fellow in the MCS division at Argonne National Laboratory. From 2022 to 2024, I was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh. I received my Ph.D. in 2022 from the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown Univeristy where I was a student of Professor Johnny Guzman. I am also a 2019 recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
I am originally from the Washington, D.C. area and completed my BA at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts (go Ephs!). My research is on numerical methods for partial differential equations, with an emphasis on the finite element method. My recent work has focused on structure-preserving methods, computational fluid dynamics, and multi physics problems.
EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
2022-2024
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh,PA
MRC Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics
2017-2022
Brown University
Providence, RI
PhD Student, Division of Applied Mathematics
Adviser: Johnny Guzman
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2019
Brown University
Providence, RI
Masters of Science in Applied Mathematics, Division of Applied Mathematics
2013 - 2017
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, with Honors
Adviser: Steven J. Miller
Teaching
Instructor:
Spring 2024 (University of Pittsburgh)
Math 1180: Linear Algebra 1
Fall 2023 (University of Pittsburgh)
Math 1070: Numerical Mathematical Analysis
Math 0125: Calculus for Business 1
Spring 2023 (University of Pittsburgh)
Math 0220: Analytic Geometry and Calculus 1
Fall 2022 (University of Pittsburgh)
Math 0230: Analytic Geometry and Calculus 2
Summer 2020 (Brown University)
APMA 0350: Applied Ordinary Differential Equations
Graduate TA
Fall 2018 (Brown University)
APMA 1170: Introduction to Computational Linear Algebra
Spring 2019 (Brown University)
APMA 0350: Applied Ordinary Differential Equations