Scott Strong 303-***-**** (O ce)

Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics 303-***-**** (Fax)

Colorado School of Mines abp5bl@r.postjobfree.com

Golden, CO 80401-1887 http://www.mines.edu/ sstrong

Education

Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO

PhD Candidate in Applied Physics Expected Graduation Date 2013

Research Topics: Quantum and Relativistic Hydrodynamics

Topics of Study: Statistical Mechanics, Classical Mechanics, Electrodynamics

Advisor: Dr. Lincoln Carr

Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO

M.S. Computational and Applied Mathematics December 2006

Topics of Study: Wave Modeling, Quantum Mechanics, Numerical Linear Algebra and

Di erential Equations, Real, Functional and Asymptotic Analysis, Educational Measurement

and Statistics

Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO

B.S. Mathematical and Computer Sciences 2001

Topics of Study: Dynamical systems, Complex Analysis, Parallel Computing, Algorithms,

Operating Systems, Machine Organization and Assembly Language

Undergraduate Project: Implementation of iterative schemes in CLAPACK to study spectra

of sparse matrices derived from crystal lattice structures.

Employment History

Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO

Associate Teaching Professor August 2011 - Present

Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO

Lecturer August 2010 - August 2011

Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO

Instructor August 2003 - August 2010

Awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty - MCS from December 2008 and May 2009

graduating classes.

Coordinated instructors/e orts in adoption of current di erential equations text.

Took part in initial content construction for newly adopted linear algebra text.

Helped coordinate e orts for ABET accreditation process.

Took a leave of absence from Spring 2005 until Spring 2006 to pursue an advanced degree in

applied and computational mathematics.

Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO

Adjunct Instructor August 2001 - May 2003

Awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty from CSM Fraternities and Sororities.

(Spring 2003)

Instructed in both computer science and mathematics specialities.

Co-developed an EPICS curriculum designed for computer scientists interested in CAD based

robotics simulation.

Teaching History

Programing Concepts in C++ MACS261

Total of 408 Students Fall 2001-Fall 2003

Helped implement project based student assessment.

Proposed and implemented changes to grading structure advocating minimum standards on

nal exam for course completion.

Engineering and Design Practices EPIC251

Total of 25 Students Spring 2002

Co-taught and co-constructed a course in CAD based robotic simulation geared towards

computer science majors completing core curriculum requirements.

Introduction to Topics for Calculus MACS100

Total of 20 Students Summer 2002

Instructed and advised students challenging into CSM undergraduate curriculum.

Introduction to Di erential Equations MACS315/MATH225

Total of 292 Students Spring 2003 - Fall 2004, Fall 2008

Course Coordinator : Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008

Curriculum Developer : Spring 2007

Freshman Success Seminar CSM101

Total of 65 Students Fall2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2011

Also served as advisor for 20 entering freshmen.

Calculus for Engineers I MACS111

Total of 116 Students Spring 2004 - Fall 2004

Linear Algebra MACS332/MATH332

Total of 39 Students Summer 2006, Summer 2009, Summer 2010

Curriculum Development : Summer 2006

Introduction to Di erential Equations w/ Honors MACS325/MATH235

Total of 75 Students Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2011

Advanced Engineering Mathematics MACS348/MATH348

Total of 928 Students Fall2006 - Present

Service

Mathematical and Computer Sciences Department

Advisor (Present) : Currently advising a total 34 undergraduate students.

Committee Member (2009-Present) : Departmental Outreach Committee (Chair)

Project Manager (2008) : Field Session - Finite dimensional approximation of solutions to the

Schr dinger equation via minimization of energy functionals represented in the Hermite basis.

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Presenter (2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2003) : Presenter for Discover CSM and

Explore CSM

Organizer (2006) : Helped organize materials for ABET accreditation review.

Presenter (2006) : Presenter at CSM Options Showcase

Assessor (2005) : Helped conduct assessment of department in preparation for ABET

accreditation review.

Co-Organizer (2004) : Helped organize First Annual Front Range Undergraduate Mathematics

Conference.

Service - Continued

Colorado School of Mines

Committee Member (2011-Present) : Faculty Handbook Committee

Committee Member (2012) : Academic Advising Coordinator Search Committee

External Evaluator (2011-2013) : CSM REMRSEC REU

Committee Member (Present) : Readmissions Committee

Committee Member (2010-Present) : Awards Committee (Appointed)

Advisor (Present) : First-year Student Academic Advisor

Advisor (2010-Present) : CSM Anime Club

Panelist (2009) : Parents Weekend Panelist

Instructor (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) : EIT/FE Mathematics Review Session

Committee Member (2004) : Member of the ad hoc committee on undergraduate advising,

which produced the current CSM Undergraduate Advising Manual.

Advisor (2007) : Faculty advisor to the CSM Boxing Club

Advisor (2004) : Faculty advisor to the CSM Ballroom Dancing Organization

Instructor (2004, 2003) : CSM101-Freshman Success Seminar

External

Reviewer (2010-2011) : Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Larry Turyn, CRC Press

Reviewer (2010) : Advanced Engineering Mathematics (2 chapters), Potter, Goldberg, and

Aboufadel, Oxford Press

Reviewer (2010) : Understanding Quantum Phase Transitions (3 chapters), Carr L. (editor),

CRC Press

Reviewer (2009) :

An Introduction to Di erential Equations I : Deterministic Modeling Methods and Analysis,

A. G. Ladde and G. S. Ladde, Oxford Press

Reviewer (2009) :

An Introduction to Di erential Equations II : Stochastic Modeling Methods and Analysis, A.

G. Ladde and G. S. Ladde, Oxford Press

Reviewer (2009) : Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Larry Turyn, McGraw-Hill

Reviewer (2009) : Di erential Equations, Yunus A. Cengel and William J. Palm, McGraw-Hill

Instructor (2008) : Instructed employees of Al Waha Petrochemical Company on linear algebra

and di erential equations.

Reviewer (2008) : Di erential Equations, Merle Potter, Jack Goldberg and Matthew Boelkins,

Oxford Press

Reviewer (2004) : Problem Solving with C++ Walter Savitch, Addison-Wesley, 6th ed.

Publications

Stone, C. and Strong, S. (2012). Implementing and Evaluating Undergraduate Research in

Renewable Energy at Colorado School of Mines. Paper in the proceedings of the Frontiers in

Education Conference, Seattle, Washington (6 pages).

Moskal, B., Reed-Rhoads, T., & Strong, S. (2012). Quantitative and Mixed-Methods Research:

Approaches and Limitations. Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research, under

review (Book Contribution)

Strong, S. & Carr, L.(2012). Generalized Local Induction, Elliptic Asymptotics and Simulating

Super uid Turbulence, J. Math. Phys., v. 53, p. 033102.

Strong, S. & Moskal, B. (2006). Caveats of Course Coordination. Paper in the proceedings of the

Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, California (6 pages)(Invited).

Moskal, B., Strong, S., & Fairweather, G. (2006). Assessing core courses in mathematics: E ects

of multi-section coordination. In Madison, B.L. (Eds) Assessment of Student Learning in College

Mathematics: Towards Improved Programs and Courses. Tallahassee, FL: Association for

Institutional Research (131-143) (Book Contribution).

Moskal, B., Strong, S. & Fairweather, G. (2005). First annual front range undergraduate

mathematics conference: Lessons learned. Rocky Mountain Section of the Mathematical

Association of America: Newsletter, 6-7 (Newsletter).

Presentations - Presenter is Underlined

Strong, S., & Carr, L. (2012). Generalized Local Induction, Hasimoto s Map and Admissible

Vortex Geometries, Arizona School of Analysis and Mathematical Physics, Tuscon, AZ.

Strong, S., & Carr, L. (2011). Visualizing Vortex Filaments Through Integrable PDE,

Theoretical Physics Seminar, Golden, CO.

Strong, S., & Carr, L. (2011). Self-Induced Vortex Filament Dynamics, Boulder Summer School

for Condensed Matter Physics, Boulder, CO

Strong, S., & Carr, L. (2011). Vortex Filaments, Local Induction and Simulating Quantum

Turbulence. The Seventh IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and

Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory, Athens, GA.

Strong, S., & Carr, L (2011). Vortex Filaments, Local Induction and Simulating Quantum

Turbulence., CSM Theoretical Physics Seminar, Golden, CO.

Strong, S., & Carr, L (2010). The Locally Induced Dynamics of Thin Cored Vortex Geometries

with Applications to Bose-Einstein Condensates, Poster Presentation at DAMOP, Houston, TX.

Strong, S., & Carr, L (2010). Soliton Dynamics of a Line-Vortex Defect Embedded in an

Incompressible Inviscid Fluid, Poster Presentation at CSM Graduate Student Research Fair,

Golden, CO.

Strong, S. (2009). The Locally Induced Dynamics of Thin Cored Vortex Geometries, CSM

Theoretical Physics Seminar, Golden, CO.

Strong, S. (2008). Nonlinear Evolutions Equations - CMI Summer School 2008, Presentation at

CSM Theoretical Physics Seminar, Golden, CO.

Moskal, B., Strong, S. & Fairweather, G. (2007). The mathematics core: A question of fairness?

Presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Strong, S. & Moskal, B. (2006). Caveats of Course Coordination. Paper in the proceedings of the

Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, California (6 pages).

Strong, S., Moskal, B., & Fairweather, G. (2006). Assessing the mathematics core: A mixed

method approach at the Colorado School of Mines. Presentation at the Joint Mathematics

Meetings, San Antonio, Texas.

Moskal, B., Fairweather, G. & Strong, S. (2005). First Annual Front Range Undergraduate

Mathematics Conference Presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia.

Strong, S. (2002) Fractal Geometry, Chaotic Dynamics and Music Composition. Presentation for

the Davidson Institute - Young Scholars Program, Golden, CO.

Conferences/Workshops/Schools

Mathematical Physics Tuscon, AZ

Arizona School of Analysis and Mathematical Physics March 9-13, 2012

Cornell Evaluation Partnership Ithaca, NY

Systems Evaluation Protocol - Implementation 2012

Hydrodynamics Boulder, CO

Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Material Physics July 5-29, 2011

Cornell Evaluation Partnership Ithaca, NY

Systems Evaluation Protocol - Cohort 4 Feb. 24-25, June 13, 2011

The Seventh IMACS International Conference Athens, GA

Presenter April 4-7, 2011

41st Annual Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Houston, TX

Presenter : Poster May 25-29, 2010

Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis Austin, TX

Atendee at A Short Course taught by T. J. R. Hughes and T. Belytschko August 17th -21st, 2009

International Conference on Microwave Magnetics Ft. Collins, Colorado

Attendee September 2008

Evolution Equations Z rich, Switzerland

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Attendee at Clay Mathematics Institute Summer School June-July 2008

ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference San Diego, CA

October 28th -31st, 2006

Presenter

AMS/MAA Joint Conferences San Antonio, TX

January 12th -15th, 2006

Presenter

First Annual Front Range Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. Golden, CO

Co-Organizer 2004

Research Interests

Emergent Phenomena in Ultracold Quantum Gases

Quantum Hydrodynamics: Vortex dynamics in Newtonian and Relativistic Super uids

Awards

Graduating Senior Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Award for Mathematical and Computer

Sciences - May 2009

Graduating Senior Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Award for Mathematical and Computer

Sciences - December 2008

Fraternity and Sorority Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Award - Spring 2003

Graduate Student Society Travel Award - Fall 2006

Graduate Student Society Travel Award - Spring 2008

Memberships

American Mathematical Society

Mathematical Association of America

American Physical Society

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