2007 Maureen Saint Georges Chaumet (computer science
and mathematics) finished her intern year in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. She says, “I have two years left of training here at CHLA, after which point—seeing as all Mudders are suckers for punishment—I will be applying for another three years of training in a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship.” James Moore (mathematical biology) finished his
PhD at the University of Utah in the summer of 2014. He is working on a postdoc at Georgia Tech on modeling responses to the yellow fever vaccine and on understanding chronic infections/T-cell exhaustion.
2008 Jason Fennell (computer science and math) and Lilly
Enthusiasts of the Harvey Mudd College Entrepreneurial Network (HMCEN) enjoyed presentations by Graham Orr (engineering), founder of Xplicit Computing, which offers system-level design and simulation software, and by Vanessa Ronan ’15 (computer science), founder of Decorater, a platform to crowdsource interior design. The two answered questions about their companies and received advice from fellow alumni. Ben Preskill (mathematics) received a PhD in
mathematics from UC Berkeley, having written a dissertation on a new method to numerically solve PDEs in the presence of certain kinds of discontinuities. Married in 2013, Ben and Autumn Petros-Good (engineering) moved across the country to NYC where Ben started a job at PDT Partners, a quantitative finance firm specializing in statistical and computational methods.
2014
Creighton are living in San Francisco, where Jason is the director of engineering at Yelp.
Parousia Rockstroh (mathematics) is in his final year
of a PhD in PDE theory at Cambridge. This summer, he did a graduate summer internship at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica. He’s working on a project with the Air Force studying transportation efficiency subject to terrorist constraints.
2009 Natalie Durgin (mathematics) defended her thesis,
“The Geometric Invariant Theory Quotient of the Hilbert Scheme of Six Points on the Projective Plane,” in May and now lives in Austin, Texas. She works as an analytics software developer at SpiceWorks, “a really fun company in a really fun city.” In her free time, she enjoys ballet and climbing. Edwin Lei (mathematics) finished his PhD in
statistics at the University of Toronto and now works as a research scientist doing experimental design and A/B testing at Amazon in Seattle.
Olivia Beckwith ’13 (math) Algebra, Number Theory and Combinatorics Emory University William Chen ’12 (mathematical biology) Ecology University of Washington Martha Cuenca ’13 (engineering) Civil Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Robert Kealhofer ’13 (physics) Condensed Matter Physics UC Berkeley Anastasia Patterson ’14 (chemistry) Chemistry of Materials UC Santa Barbara
David Gross (mathematics)
and Aurora Pribram-Jones ’09 (chemistry) welcomed a girl, Avra, to the family on June 1. David writes, “She arrived in all of her 8-pound, 12-ounce and 21-inch glory.”
Alumni who received 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Bo Lee (mathematics and computational biology)
just finished his first year as a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso teaching sixth and seventh grade math. He says, “It was a little crazy teaching 95 students in French. I feel like I spent most of the year trying to make sense of how to teach in a foreign culture, but I think I have a better grasp of things now and am pretty excited to start up again in the fall.”
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Honorable mentions: Thomas Carey ’13 (biology) Biomedical Engineering Massachusetts General Hospital Millie Fung ’11 (chemistry & biology) Chemical Measurement and Imaging UC Irvine Carola Purser ’13 (physics) Condensed Matter Physics Ohio State University Paul Riggins ’12 (physics) Theoretical Physics UC Berkeley Alexandra Schofield ’13 (CS & math) Natural Language Processing Cornell University
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