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Rebecca Durst 

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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

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Argonne National Laboratory

Mathematics and Computer Science

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