A Paragraph: I'm a fourth year Ph.D. student in the
Mathematics department at UCLA. I passed my qualifying examinations
in applied differential equations and numerical analysis, and I
currently study the efficient numerical simulation of moderately
collisional plasmas and SDEs under Russel Caflisch. Previously, I was a double major in physics and mathematics at MIT, graduating with a B.S. in June 2009. I enjoy playing and listening to music, most sports, naps, and sarcasm.
Teaching
Summer 2011: Math 134, Linear and Nonlinear Systems of Differential Equations. Section 1A: Boelter 2760; Thursday 2-4
Winter 2011: Math 146, Methods of Applied Mathematics.
Fall 2010: Math 32B, Multivariable Integral Calculus.
Spring 2010: Math 146, Methods of Applied Mathematics.
Winter 2010: Math 32B, Multivariable Integral Calculus.
Fall 2009: Math 32A, Multivariable Differential Calculus.
Tutoring
I tutor undergraduate mathematics at the levels of UCLA's 3,
31, 32, and 33 sequences, most upper division courses, and any
undergraduate level physics courses. Rates vary depending on course
and length of commute. Contact me via email for a quote.
Credentials: Regular tutor as an undergraduate and graduate student. Recipient of 2009 James Albrecht Memorial Tutoring Award for excellence in undergraduate tutoring at MIT.
More Specifically: Accelerated collision simulation in kinetic
systems, multilevel Monte Carlo methods for systems of SDEs
Recent Papers
L.F. Ricketson, M.S. Rosin, R.E. Caflisch, A.M. Dimits, An
entropy based thermalization scheme for hybrid simulations of
Coulomb collisions, submitted to JCP (Arxiv)
A.M. Dimits, B.I. Cohen, R. Caflisch, M.S. Rosin,
L.F. Ricketson, Higher-order Integration of Coulomb Collisions in a
Plasma Using Langevin Equations, accepted by JCP
TUNL XLVI 2006-07, A.R. Young, L. Broussard, H.O. Back, C.R. Howell, R.W. Pattie, L. Ricketson, Progress on the 19-Ne Lifetime Measurement using the 19-F(p,n)19-Ne Reaction
in the TRImuP Spectrometer (PDF)
TUNL XLV 2005-06, H.O. Back, M. Kidd, L. Ricketson, W. Tornow, I.U. Willard, A.R. Young, Development of a 1.4 kg Segmented Ge Ionization Detector Enriched to 85% 76-Ge for Underground Measurements of Double Beta-Decay, Axions, and Other Forms of Dark Matter (PDF)
Accelerated collisional simulation using relative entropy,
American Physical Society - Division of Plasma Physics, Providence,
RI, November 2012 (Poster)
Mathematical Models of Criminal Behavior - Paper, Talk
My ADE Qual Notes: This is an outline of everything I thought I needed to know to pass the ADE qual with some selected solutions to old exam problems at the end. Not all of the solutions are guaranteed to be correct, but I think most of them are.
