Chris Swierczewski

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About Me

I'm a master's student in Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington. I received my B.S. with Distinction in Mathematics at the University of Washington as well. I very much enjoy all fields of mathematics and I'm always excited to share my knowledge with others.

My research interests include, but are not restricted to, computational linear algebra, graph theory, and numerical analysis. As an undergraduate, I did some research in computational number theory where I generated computational evidence for the Sato-Tate Conjecture. This work culminated into a senior thesis which you can find on my Papers and Talks page.

My work history includes development for the Sage: Open-Source Mathematics Software project, a teaching assistant / camp counselor for SIMUW (Summer Institute for Mathematics at the University of Washington, and research in mathematics for the United States federal government.

When I'm not studying I'm often found programming, backpacking, cycling, and playing Dungeons and Dragons.


Projects

Here are some projects I'm currently or have recently worked on. See my Research page for more info:
  • Stable Set Convex Polytopes: Computing over tight relaxations of the optimization problem over the convex hull of the incidence vectors over a maximal stable set in a graph. This work is under Prof. Rekha Thomas of the Department of Mathematics.
  • Sage: I've worked on various projects for the Sage: Open-Source Mathematics Software project, including the above graph-theoretical work, financial mathematics, and lots of doctesting.
  • Clawpack: Clawpack is a software package designed to compute numerical solutions to hyperbolic partial differential equations using a wave propagation approach.

Items of Interest

  • I strongly support open-source software development.
  • Sage is an excellent open-source mathematics software package. For more numerical problems, though, I sometimes use Numpy/Scipy instead.
  • Ubuntu is a free, Linux-based operation system and is great.
  • I enjoy cooking and subsequently eating Polish food. My favorite dish is bigos.
  • My favorite webcomics are xkcd, Penny Arcade, PvP, and Hark! A Vagrant.




Contact Information


Address
University of Washington
Department of Applied Mathematics
Box xxxxxx
Seattle, WA 98195-xxxx

Phone
206.905.4512
(Google Voice)

Fax
206.xxx.xxxx

Email
cswiercz ]at[ gmail ]dot[ com