Appointments: Incoming HMC Mathematics Department Chair commencing  Fall 2009 Visiting Member,  Courant Institute at NYU (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)  Mathematics Clinic Director (Fall 2007-Spring 2008)  Contact Information: Andrew J. Bernoff Professor of Mathematics   Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd. Claremont, CA 91711 Email:  ajb at hmc dot edu Phone: (909) 621-8023

Research Interests Fluid Mechanics Swarming of Insects Applications of Dynamical Systems Free Boundary Problems Asymptotics Thin Fluid Films and Langmuir Layers Self-Similarity and Scaling Behavior Stability Theory for Self-Similar Evolution

Undergraduate Research

• Michael Gratton (HMC 2002): Mixing in Helical Pipes
• Bradley Forrest (HMC 2002): Modeling Faraday Excitation of a Viscous Fluid
• Dmitriy Kogan (HMC 2003): Pattern Formation in Diblock Copolymers
• Benjamin Bryant (HMC 2003): Modelling Moving Droplets: A Precursor Film Approach
• Dan Beutel (HMC 2003): Modeling Advection and Diffusion in Microchannels
• Sheldon Logan (HMC 2006)  & Wyatt Toolson (HMC 2007): Particle Model Simulations of Locust Swarms
• Jacob Wintersmith (Physics, HMC 2006): Domain Relaxation in Langmuir Films
• Robin Baur (HMC 2006): Rupture in Thin Films
• Joseph Majkut (HMC 2006): Foraging Fruit Flies: Description of Insect Swarming
• George Tucker (HMC 2008): Formation of Labyrinth Patterns in Langmuir Films
• Andrew Leverentz (HMC 2008): An Integrodifferential Equation Modeling 1-D Swarming Behavior

UCLA Summer Research Program: Since 2005 I have co-supervised a group of 5-8 summer students working in the UCLA Applied Mathematics Group.

Miscellany 

• I coordinate British Graduate Fellowships at Harvey Mudd College.
  
• Some of my Research Colleagues.
• The HMC Putnam Resource Page has links to Putnam Resources and some history of the Putnam at HMC.
• I am the Education Section Editor for SIAM Review.
• A CAIS inservice I ran on Preparing Students for the College Mathematics Experience on March 22, 2004.
• I ran the Undergraduate Faculty Program at the Park City Mathematical Institute  from June 29 to July 19, 2003. The workshop was on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in the Undergraduate Curriculum. As of January 1, 2008 I am on the steering committee of PCMI.
• I co-organized a mini-workshop on  Microfluidics at IPAM  on November 12-13, 2002.
• My CV including a list of publications.

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Personal Links

My wedding to Thomas Trautmann on February 18th, 2004.

My trip to England in summer of 2004.

My trip to Spain in 1998.

Quotes from a class I taught compiled by a former student.

A long time ago at the double-domed institute . . .

A longer time ago in the halls of Annapolis and the heart of Romania . . .

Last modified:  July 1,  2008