Thomas Wallace Colthurst
49 St. James Ave.
Somerville MA 02144
(617)-776-7634
thomasc@mit.edu
Experience:
- Head of Experimental Study Group Mathematics Staff, 1994 - Present
Supervised group of ten mathematics instructors teaching a total 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.
- 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
Developed a scientific graphics package in Fortran for a variety of
platforms, including Sun Unix and MS DOS machines; developed
programs for visual display of sonar response patterns.
- Mathematics Researcher at Willams College (1991), Geometry Center (1992), and Regional Geometry Institute (1993)
Proved original results in number theory, network minimization, and fractal geometry.
- Student Consultant for Brown Computer Science Department, 1991-1992
- Columnist for Brown Daily Herald, 1991-1992
Education:
- MIT, 1992 - 1997
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.
Skills:
- C++, C, Java, Fortran, Pascal, Tcl/Tk, 68000, 6502, and PDP Assembler.
- UNIX (Sun OS, SGI, Linux), Windows, and MS-DOS operating systems.
- Scientific Visualization, Compiler Optimization, Wavelets,
Fractal Image Compression, Public/Private Key Encryption, TCP/IP Networking,
and CGI Scripts.