Colin B. Macdonald
University Lecturer in Numerical Methodologies,
OCCAM
Tutorial Fellow in Applied Maths, Oriel College
University of Oxford
Postdoc (2008--2009 at UCLA Math Dept with Dr. Stan Osher)
Ph.D. (SFU, 2008, with Steve Ruuth)
M.Sc. (SFU, 2003, with Steve Ruuth)
B.Sc. (Acadia University, 2001, with Ray Spiteri)
email: macdonald[at]maths.ox.ac.uk or cbm[at]m.fsf.org
web: http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~macdonald
dept office: RI2.14 (Gibson bldg)
college office: #3, 14 King Edward St
phone: +44 1865 615168 (w)
Research Team
My research team at Oxford currently consists of Ingrid von Glehn, Yujia Chen, and Tom März. See more information about my group including opportunities for students.
Research Interests
- List of publications.
- The Closest Point Method: a new method for PDEs on surfaces.
- Time-stepping for PDEs: constructing Runge-Kutta methods, strong-stability-preserving methods (visit the SSP Site).
- WENO spatial discretizations.
- The Predicted Sequential Regularization Method.
- List of talks and presentations.
Mathematics
- Ph.D. thesis, M.Sc. thesis, B.Sc. thesis.
- Forest fire simulations using level set methods.
- Various course projects, the 2002 GIMMC5 report, and IPSW6 reports.
- Miscellaneous material from the SFU applied math seminars.
- View or download an electronic copy of Abramowitz and Stegun: Handbook of Mathematical Functions.
- The Virtual Album of Hollywood Fluid Motion.
- Organizer of the SFU 2008 Applied Mathematics Graduate Student Conference, (2007), (2006), (2005).
Teaching
At Oxford, I currently teach a course on exploring mathematics with computer algebra systems. I also teach AMCS 332, “Introduction to Mathematical Modelling” at KAUST. I also tutor various applied mathematics subjects at Oriel College.
In the past, I have taught introductory Euclidean geometry, and been a TA for complex analysis, numerical analysis, and calculus.
Miscellaneous
My LaTeX page.
A photo gallery of some of my pictures (currently empty).
101 Illustrated Analysis Bedtime Stories: the story of “epsilon-Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem”.
