Scott Strong 303-***-**** (O ce)
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics 303-***-**** (Fax)
Colorado School of Mines *******@*****.***
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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