Thomas Colthurst's CV

Thomas Wallace Colthurst

49 St. James Ave.	Department of Mathematics
Somerville MA 02144	Room 2-251
(617)-776-7634	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
thomasc@mit.edu	Cambridge MA 02139

Research Interests: Fractal geometry, multidimensional wavelets, fractal tilings.

MIT, 1992 - 1997
PhD mathematics graduate student, writing thesis on ``Multidimensional Wavelets'' under Professor Gilbert Strang.
Brown University, 1989-1992
Graduated magna cum laude with a Sc.B. in Mathematics and a 3.96 cumulative GPA.

``Networks Minimizing Length Plus the Number of Steiner Points'', by Joel Foisy, Thomas Colthurst, et al. Published in: Network Optimization Problems: Algorithms, Complexity, and Applications, Ding-Zhu Du and Panos M. Pardalos, edtiors. (World Scientific, 1993, pp. 23-36).
``Dynamic Visualization of Late Quaternary Pollen Data'', by Alan P. Knoerr, Thompson Webb III, and Thomas Colthurst. Published in: Computing Science and Statistics, Interface '91. Elaine M. Keramidas, Editor. 1991.

All of these paper may be found at the URL http://www.mit.edu/people/thomasc/papers/.

``Denesting Radical Expressions Through Galois Theory'', 1991.
``On the Diophantine Equation Sum x^k = (Sum x)^2'', by Cordelia Aitkin, Thomas Colthurst, Kathryn Kollett, Steven Levandosky, Andrew Perry, and Eugene Stern. 1991.
``Fractal Polytopes'', 1992.
``Range Checking via Extended Single Static Assignment Form'', in progress.
``Topics in Iterated Function System Theory, Including Fractal Image Compression'', book in progress.
``When is a 2-Reptile a 3-Reptile?'', in progress.

Head of Experimental Study Group Mathematics Staff, 1994 - Present
Each semester supervised group of ten mathematics instructors teaching an average of fifty first year MIT students. Responsible for finding and interviewing new instructors, matching students to instructors, evaluating instructor performance, and teaching two or more classes each semester. Classes taught include Calculus, Vector Calculus, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Introduction to Programming in C, and Special Topics in Mathematics. Developed World Web Math (http://web.mit.edu/wwmath/), an online hypertextbook for calculus and vector calculus.
Teaching Assistant for MIT Mathematics Department, 1992 - 1994
Led recitation sections for Vector Calculus and Statistics & Probability classes; developed MATLAB exercises for Linear Algebra course.
Programmer for money.com, 1994
Developed ``digital cash'' system for internet purchases, and wrote vendor, customer, and server programs for Windows and Unix environments.
Programmer for Brown Geology Department, 1990-1992
Developed programs for the 4-D visualization and analysis of a database of fossilized pollen concentrations on Silicon Graphics workstations.
Programmer for Naval Ocean Systems Center, 1989-1990
Mathematics Researcher at Willams College (1991), the Geometry Center in Minneapolis (1992), and the Regional Geometry Institute at Smith College (1993)