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Math/Stats/Computer Science Reunion/Miniconference Sunday, June 8, 2008
All alums are invited back to campus for the first
Math/Stats/Computer Science one-day reunion/miniconference Sunday, June
8, 2008. In addition to a few invited speakers and faculty, all
participants are invited to present short talks (probably 15-minute
talks). The day will open with a complimentary continental brunch
around 11 am, with talks starting by 1 pm. Invited speakers include
Michael Hutchings SMALL '92 of UC Berkeley and Bethany Mclean '92, who
exposed the Enron scandal. The day will end with a complimentary dinner.
The occasion for celebration is the 20th anniversary
of our SMALL undergraduate research project, which has produced more
publications than any such program in the country. All SMALL alums are
particularly invited to participate.
You can register for free by mailing or emailing
Marissa.M.Barschdorf@williams.edu, Math/Stats, Williams College,
Williamstown, MA 01267 with your name, address, telephone, and email
address.
The event will immediately follow Williams Reunions,
which begins Thursday, June 5. If you plan to attend Reunions, tell
them when you register that you would like to stay through Monday
morning for the Math/Stats/CS reunion. Otherwise if you tell us we will
arrange a complimentary shared room for Sunday night at the Williams
Inn. If you have any questions contact
Frank.Morgan@williams.edu.
We're hoping for a diverse group of participants and
we're inviting applications for travel support. Funding by the National
Science Foundation, the Research Corporation, and Williams College.
We are happy and grateful for three recent gifts by alums:
1. John and Louise Finnerty Fund for Applied Mathematics
Research, supporting undergraduate research and outside speakers.
2. Hagey Family Professorship for Mathematics and Statistics. Inaugural
holder: Cesar Silva.
3. Wyskiel Award for a student interested in teaching mathematics.
From our Reunions event June 9, 2007:
Mary Vance '82, Kelly Vance, Brian Wecht '97, Jay Emerson '92, Mike
Vance, Alec Crowell '10, Fred Hines, ?, ?, Brian Wecht '97, Prof. Cesar
Silva, Steve Root '92, Charles Samuels '02
Brian Wecht '97, Prof. Susan Loepp, Jane Lee '97, Brooks Clark '82,
Jenny Schumi '97
Howard DeLong, Mike Donofrio '91, Edie, Stuart
Hunt, Prof. Mihai Stoiciu, Prof. Tom Garrity
For more department news, see the Math Year
in Review.
News from Alums (2 October 2008)
Cordelia Aitkin '93 worked as a
lighting designer off Broadway and then went to Rutgers University,
where she is working on a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology funded by an
NSF pre-doctoral fellowship.
Zan Armstrong '04 taught in the
Maine Coast Semester program for high school juniors. Now completing
graduate work in Sweden, as well as doing some serious orienteering.
Catherine Bagley (now Beamer) '99
taught at the Bishop’s School in La Jolla, CA until 2003, then moved to
Dexter and Southfield Schools in Brookline, MA. She now teaches at the
Cate School in Carpenteria, CA.
Daniel Bahls '04: In Law School
at Boston University.
Megan Barber '96 is director of
the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program of Hampshire and Franklin
Counties, MA. She plays violin with the Pioneer Valley Symphony and has
started flamenco dance.
Anna Bardone-Cone '91 is a
professor of psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia where
she uses her math background in analyses of eating disorder research
and in discussions about math in the psychology of women course she
teaches! She has two children.
Melanie Beeck '04, after teaching in Switzerland, is
pursuing a Master of Teaching in Melbourne, Australia.
Andrew Beveridge '91 finished
his Ph.D. in mathematics at Yale, taught at Carnegie Mellon, and then
moved west to San Francisco, where he did software development. He has
recently taken a job in the mathematics department at Macalester
College in Minnesota.
Douglas Briggs '94: IT manager
at Anheuser Busch in St. Louis.
Melissa Brown '04, completing
her second year at Harvard Business School, writes: "Though there are
few concepts from my Math major...that I will directly have to use
again, I really benefited from learning how to break problems into
smaller pieces and how to reason through them."
John Bryk '02: Studying number
theory in the mathematics graduate program at Rutgers.
Derek Bruneau '94: Working at
Lycos.com.
Bob Buckner '83 is chief
actuary for a reinsurance company in southern Connecticut.
John Bugbee '93 just defended
his dissertation in Medieval literature at the University of Virginia
and is starting on finishing a PhD in religious studies.
John Butler '94: Working at
the Broad Institute in Cambridge.
Laura Christensen '97: Works
as a biostatistician at a company called URREA, which does
research on kidney disease and organ transplants.
Charlie Cochran '88 reports:
"I am actually using my math skills, performing cost analyses for DoD
programs in Washington, DC in a career shift a few years ago from
gallivanting around the world in international development work."
Jana Comstock '99: Working on a
Ph.D. at Berkeley in geometry/topology.
Mark Conger '89: Recently
finished his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Michigan on
topics related to card shuffling. He is teaching there now.
Ben Connard '02 is an analyst
and assistant portfolio manager with the Laidlaw Group, which does
investment advice in Katonah, NY.
Jenny Cotner '94 worked as a
consultant at PricewaterhouseCooper for four years, and is now studying
at the Sloan School of Business at MIT.
Chris Cox '92: Teaching math
at Illinois Central College, where he was granted tenure. In addition
to math, he writes novels, two of which have been published.
Elise Cucchi '00 is teaching in
the Boston area.
Heather Curnutt '94 received her J.D. degree from NYU Law School
in 1999. She now practices litigation in Madison, WI for the firm
Lawton & Cates. In her spare time, she enjoys training for and
racing triathlons, and competed in the 2003 amateur triathlon world
championship in Queenstown, New Zealand and the 2004 world
championships in Madeira Island, Portugal.
Diana Davis '07 is teaching
mathematics back at her alma mater Exeter Academy and will begin
graduate school in mathematics at Brown in 2008.
Howard DeLong ‘57: At Williams,
he wrote a thesis on Skolem's paradox under Donald Richmond. Then
went on to Princeton University where he received his Ph. D. in
philosophy in 1960. In the same year he started teaching at Trinity
College (Hartford) in the Philosophy Department. He retired
thirty-nine years later. In 1970 he published a book called A Profile
of Mathematical Logic (Addison-Wesley) which stayed in print for twenty
years. It came back in print in 2004 when Dover asked if they
could republish it. He has just finished a manuscript called Perfecting
the Pursuit of Happiness: The American Revolution in the
Twentieth-First Century.
Ken Dennison '01 received an
M.S. in Physics from Cornell, and is now a laboratory instructor at
Bowdoin College, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Heath Dill '98 works in the
internet industry in the Boston area.
Jesse Dill '01: Pursuing a
Ph.D. in biophysics at UC Berkeley. Using optical tweezers to study
protein folding.
Michael Donofrio '91 clerked
for a judge on the Vermont Supreme Court
for a year and now works as an assistant district attorney.
Benjamin Ebert '92: Completed a
D.Phil. in molecular biology at Oxford University and an M.D. at
Harvard Medical School. Currently working as a hematologist/oncologist
at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and doing basic research using
genomic approaches to study leukemia.
Jay Emerson '92 is Assistant
Professor of Statistics at Yale and the Director of Graduate Studies.
Jay appeared on ABC's World News Tonight on February 24, 2006, on the
effect of dropping three judges' scores in Olympic figure
skating. In 2007 he taught an invited course at Peking University.
Eric Engler '04: Living
in New York City working for D.E.Shaw on a fundamental trading desk.
Dan Fasulo '94 received his
Ph.D. and is now a researcher for Applied BioSystems in Bethesda, MD.
Yobelin Fernandez '02 is
teaching high school math at The Dalton School in New York City.
Tom Fleming '00 received his
Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California-San Diego in
2006.
Joel Foisy '91 received a Ph.D.
from Duke University and teaches in the mathematics department at the
State University of New York at Potsdam. He runs a summer research
program funded by NSF.
Peter Frechtel '92 lives in
Colorado, working as a statistician, doing contract work for the
federal government.
Christopher French '95 received
his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2001,
followed by post-doc at the University of Illinois. He is now an
assistant professor at Grinnell College.
Artur Fridman '93 received his
PhD in applied math from Brown in 2000 followed by a post-doc at Brown.
Eric Furstenberg '97 finished
his Econ PhD at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at the College
of William and Mary and is now at the University of Virginia.
Topher Goggin '02 is at Notre
Dame Law School.
Deidre Goodwin (now Carovano) '91:
Received a masters in Math at UNC-Chapel Hill. Went to work for
Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) as a computer systems consultant
for eight years. Moved to Charlotte, NC then to Tampa, FL then to
Atlanta, and then back to Tam pa where she’s been since. Since then,
she has become a mom! Her favorite job ever! She has a daughter, Zoe,
and she and her husband, Bill, have another on the way (boy - due
mid-Nov, 2007).
Deborah Greilsheimer '97:
Received J.D. from Yale Law School, completed her first triathlon, and
has joined the tax practice at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
in New York.
Kristen Grippi '00 has been
working with Goldman Sachs, and is taking a break from her role as an
investment banker at GS to work with the NYSE Specialist trading unit
on improving profitability and winning new business mandates.
Jason Hadnot '99 completed a
Masters degree in mathematics at Boston University.
Wil Harkey '00: From
2002—2004, worked as a capital structure arbitrageur at Sagamore
Hill Capital, which required stochastic math as well as careful
thinking along the lines of dynamic systems; In May 2004, together with
David Cowan '99, he started a
hedge fund focused on making concentrated long-term equity investments.
Elizabeth Camp Hanson '88: Lives
in Richmond. Received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of
Michigan. Spent 4 years at Virginia Military Institute, 2 years at US
Naval Academy, and 11 years as a Naval Intelligence Officer. She has 2
girls Abigail (8/01) and Katherine (3/03), and now teaches math at
Trinity Episcopal High School.
Cory Heilmann '00: Working at
Eli Lilly.
Patty Hines '00 received an MBA
from the Fletcher School at Tufts, and is now a portfolio manager for
the Export-Import Bank.
Peter Hislop '77 is a professor
at the University of Kentucky, doing mathematical physics. This Fall,
’07, he gave the kick-off colloquium at Williams on the mathematics
behind electron flow in solids.
Neil Hoffman '04 is pursuing a
PhD in mathematics at the University of Texas. He gave a talk in Frank
Morgan's session at the 2007 San José MathFest on published
papers on his undergraduate research at Williams.
Jon Howard ‘91 got a second
bachelor's degree in nursing and is now an RN in the University of
Virginia Emergency Department.
Lisa Howard '96 teaches
precalculus at Baruch High School in New York City. She is working
towards her masters at Columbia.
Hugh Howards '92: Received a
Ph.D. from UCSD and then began teaching at Wake Forest University. Won
the Reid-Doyle award for excellence in teaching, Wake Forest College's
highest prize. The previous year he was named by the Panhellenic
Council as one of the ten most respected and influential faculty
members at Wake Forest. Has married and had his first child.
Amy Huston (now Goetze) '92: Worked
for Kaiser Permanente in CA. She has two boys. Now living in Georgia.
Saumitra Jha '99 is now an
academy Scholar at Harvard. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at
Stanford--As he says, "the dark side got me after all!" Prior to
Stanford, he did a master degree in economics and Part III of the
Mathematics trips at Cambridge.
Chris Jones '88 is Chair of
the Mathematics Department at Horace Mann School in NYC.
Anne Joseph '92 spent two years
at Cambridge University on a Herchel Smith fellowship, studying history
and philosophy of science with Peter Lipton and others. For the next
six years, she shuttled between Yale Law School and Harvard to complete
a joint JD/PhD (in Political Economy and Government). Then she moved
home to DC for four years for, among other things, a clerkship with
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a litigation job at the Justice
Department. She is on the west coast, teaching at Boalt Hall
(UC-Berkeley's law school).
Jonathan Kallay '00: Taught in
the Boston area, having gotten married. Now living in Seattle, and
proud parent of Oren Daniel Kallay, born June 14, 2007.
Eric Katerman '02: Working on a
PhD in math at the University of Texas, Austin. Eric is also learning
to fly airplanes, do tarot readings, repair bicycles, and play better
squash. He volunteers as a DJ a KVRX Austin and works on various Web
sites.
Jeff Kaye '99: Finished an MS
in Math/Math Education in Dec '03 at Montclair State University.
Currently teaching Math at Millburn High School in Millburn, NJ (his
alma mater). In other news, he got married. He met his wife while
coaching cross country and winter track for rival schools."
Will Kiblinger '92: After
finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and teaching at a
small Lutheran college in Pennsylvania, he is now an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at
Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC. His wife also teaches at
Winthrop. They have a daughter, Madeleine.
Danny Kim '96: I finished law
school and I've been practicing both
commercial and tax litigation at Crowell & Moring LLP, in
Washington, DC.
John King '72: "Ten years of
teaching advanced mathematics, notably calculus AB and BC and
precalculus in independent boarding schools and ten years in school
administration have put my studies with professors Grabois, Spencer,
and others to some practical use. (I also had a thirteen year run in
the communications industry between my school involvements). Now most
of my mathematics exercise is managing budgets and financials as well
as fundraising strategies for Hebron Academy where I am in my fourth
year as Head of School."
Brendan Kinnell '00 is teaching
mathematics at Saint David's School in New York City. He is also
working towards an MA in mathematics education at Teacher's College at
Columbia. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Katie (Fogg '00).
Lisa Kuklinski-Ramirez '90 is still working for the same
company (MetLife) as an actuary -- and enjoying it! Her job is fairly
mathematical. She’s responsible for variable annuity product
development -- where they make guarantees on the stock market -- so
they end up doing a lot of stochastic simulation work. She and her
husband Jorge have one child.
Davina Kunvipusilkul '99: Finished
her doctorate in operations research
at Cornell where she was on the figure-skating team, and has now
returned to work in Thailand.
Dan Lee SMALL '99 received his
PhD in geometric analysis with Rick Schoen at Stanford. He got married
in June, 2004.
Jared Levine '94 is working at
the Department of State.
Adam Levy '88: Chair of the
Mathematics Department at Bowdoin College.
Kari Lock '04 spent two years
figure skating professionally with Holiday on Ice, touring Europe,
Asia, and Latin America. She's now at Harvard University for her PhD in
Statistics. She published an interesting review of a book on how to
make a killing at the lottery in the September 2007 College Mathematics
Journal.
Robert Lopez '03 is working at
state street in Boston as a custodian in the financial sector, tracking
the pension fund assets of either corporations or public pension
programs. Also taking a course in actuarial sciences at BU.
Jonathan Lovett '04 is now
Senator Hillary Clinton's speech writer. He published an article on his
Williams thesis with Professor Morgan in the September 2007 American
Mathematical Monthly.
Holly Lowy Bernstein '93
had a second child, Bryce, born on June 28, 2003.
Aaron Magid '04 is pursuing a
PhD in Mathematics at the University of Michigan (and his website there
is www-personal.umich.edu/~magid/
). He’s still running, trying to grow bonsai trees, and studying
topology and hyperbolic geometry. He caught up with Colin Adams, Thomas Kindred '07, Neil
Hoffman '04, and Eric Schoenfeld '03 at the Park City Math
Institute in low-dimensional topology in summer ‘06.
Peter McKelvey '86: "We had a
fantastic time at our 15th reunion in June, and one of the key
highlights was seeing Professor Morgan's talk on soap bubble clusters.
My children, Emily (10) and Will (6), were especially enamored by the
linkage between complex math questions and fun activities. After
blowing bubbles, my son asked me afterwards, Is that what they do in
math in college?'"
Andy Masetti '79 is Chief
Financial Officer at Sentient Medical Systems, a leading provider of
intra-operative monitoring services..
Joe Masters '94 received his
math Ph.D. at Texas and has been teaching at SUNY-Buffalo. His wife, Laura Prentice ‘94 is doing a
residency in pediatric neurology there and likes it, although they keep
her busy.
Joe Masters '02 is studying
law at Yale Law School.
Andrew Mauer-Oats '93 is
teaching high school in Chicago - an inside view of a system that fails
many many students... fewer than 6% of 8th grader graduate from college
in 10 years. Living in
Chicago means it takes a long time to drive anywhere, but there're
plenty of things to do with the kids, Olivia and Elliot.
Robert McGehee '02 is working
at Geode Capital, a quantitative investment firm in downtown Boston.
Alex Meadows '96 received his
PhD in Mathematics from Stanford. After a postdoc at Cornell, he is
teaching at St. Mary’s College in Maryland.
Heather Morton ‘94 is
assistant professor of English at Centre College in Kentucky.
Dawn Nelson '00 is in the
Mathematics PhD program at Brandeis University.
Douglas Northrop '89 is now
Associate Professor of Central Asian Studies UM.
Bill O'Brien ’94: After
teaching high school in Switzerland, Japan, and Australia, has returned
to New England.
Jon Othmer '02 is finishing a
PhD in applied math at Caltech in June 2008. After finishing he will
get married in Australia and move to New York to take a job with Morgan
Stanley.
Jim Partan '94 is an electrical
engineer at Wood's Hole.
Michael Pelsmajer '95 is
teaching in the Math Department at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Andrew (Wiz) Perry '92 received
tenure at Springfield College (Springfield, MA) and published an
Abstract Algebra book.
Nick Perry '04 has been
teaching at the Horace Mann School in NYC.
David Pesikoff '90 went to
business school at Stanford. Now he works for a money manager in Texas
when he's not busy with his children.
Shara Pilch '99 is teaching at
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts, after finishing
three years in Webb, MS.
John Platt '99 is teaching math
at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, RI.
Binney Putnam '97 is teaching
at The Bishop's School in La Jolla, California.
Nate Putman '04 is pursuing a
master's degree in Mechanical Engineering
at the University of Texas at Austin.
Virginia Pyle '00 moved to
Minneapolis in fall 2003 to pursue a Masters in English as a Second
Language at the University of Minnesota.
Conor Quinn '07 is with Teach
for America in Chicago. He says "it's awesome, totally awesome. The joy
that I derive from teaching mathematics is something that I could not
have predicted."
Jennifer Quinn '85 served as
chair of the math department at Occidental College and editor of Math
Horizons, the MAA magazine for students before serving as executive
director of the Association of Women in Mathematics and then moving to
the University of Washington-Tacoma.
Andrew Raich '98 got his
PhD in math at Wisconsin in 2005, had a postdoc at Texas A&M,
and he and his wife Shauna are teaching at the University of Arkansas
(fall 2008).
Nikos Raleigh '96 attended the
Harvard Graduate School of Education to pursue a Master in Education.
Starting in 1997, he spent three years teaching at an innovative
start-up public school in Boston. Then he made a career switch to
management consulting at the Monitor Group. During his stint at
Monitor, he took a yearlong leave of absence to teach and study in
Seoul, Korea. Then did an MBA student at The Wharton School at the
University of Pennsylvania. Now in a full-time position at
American Express as a Senior Manager. His wife Liz is a PhD student at
UPenn studying Sociology.
Sara Richland '01 is teaching
math to high school juniors and seniors at her alma mater,
Harvard-Westlake, a wonderful private school.
Drew Richards '99 is working
for Capital Resource Partners in Boston.
Kamille Richards '00 has left a
market research consulting company in Waltham for Harvard Law School.
Dan Robb '93 got a PhD at UT
Austin in Physics in magnetic modeling (and 'computational stat mech')
in 2002. His advisor Linda Reichl was also Bill Wootters' advisor when
he has at UT Austin. A 'SMALL' world, huh? After postdocs at
Mississippi State and Florida State, he is now at the Clarkson Center
for Advanced Materials Processing.
Chris Roosenraad '94 has
returned from working in Germany and now works for Time Warner Cable in
Virginia.
Curtis Schmitt '93: His first
short film, "What Remains," finished its tour of the festival circuit
(it won an award at the Las Vegas Mercury Short Film Festival!). His
day job is for a small publisher in eastern Long Island, NY.
Eric Schoenfeld '03 is pursuing
a Ph.D. in Mathematics at Stanford
University.
Brett Schneider '94 is a
structural engineer and teaches part-time at Columbia University.
Peter Schulman '70 teaches at
the UConn Medical School in Cardiology.
Jenny Schumi '97 studied
statistics amid the cornfields of central Iowa at Iowa State in Ames.
After receiving an MS, she worked for a small company in Washington,
DC, doing statistical consulting relating to clinical trials and other
public health research. She is now in the doctoral program at the
Harvard School of Public Health in Biostatistics.
Adam Schuyler '00 finished his
PhD in mechanical engineering and now works in the Feldman Lab at
the university of Michigan.
Jason Schweinsberg '97
has a tenure-track position in the math department at the
University of California at San Diego.
Patricia (Patti) Scott '96 is
teaching people how to fly airplanes, and is currently working at a
flight school in the San Francisco Bay area.
Lisetta Shah '05 trained with
the Mississippi Teacher Corps. She teaches 7th grade science at
Greenwood Middle School, a critical-needs publish school district.
Garrett Smith '01 worked for
2.5 years for Bain & Company in Boston doing strategy consulting.
From there he went on a 6 month transfer to Bain's Amsterdam office and
loved it so much that he asked to stay. They said "yes" so now he is
trying to fit into Dutch culture! Lots of bike riding, cheese eating,
and a sturdy umbrella. Garrett was first recipient of the Kozelka prize
in statistics for his colloquium with Prof Jerry Reiter.
Tristan Smith '98 received a
PhD in Computer and Information Systems from the University of Oregon
in 2004, and now works for On Time Systems out of Eugene, OR.
John Staudenmayer '92 is a
professor at UMass-Amherst in the Math and Stats Department, after
having finished his PhD at Cornell in Operations Research in 2000 and
holding a post doc at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is
married to Katie Queeney '92,
who teaches chemistry at Smith.
Mark Sutton '93, since moving
to New York in 2000, has won a Telly Award for composition for TV, and
currently works as Executive Producer of "Marc Sussman's Money Message"
for Air America/XM Satellite Radio.
Nathan Tefft '00, after
working as a software engineer at Harvard, is pursuing a PhD in
Economics (possibly environmental or public econ.) at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison.
Emily Thall '90 worked for a
number of years in Portugal and Chile, first teaching and then working
as a financial analyst. She returned to New York to work for a company
that invested in railroads in South America. After many train trips
through Bolivia and the like, she went to law school and now practices
law in London.
Jennifer Tice '97 lives in
Seattle, working at an environmental policy and management consulting
firm called Ross & Associates. She enjoys hiking, snowshoeing,
kayaking, and bicycling in the area, as well as volunteering for local
non-profit organizations, seeing live theatre, and being near family.
Margaret Tilton '93, after
teaching writing composition in Boulder, is studying geography at the
University of Colorado.
Mike
Touloumtzis writes: I'm still in Seattle, working at Amazon.com
as a Principal Engineer; I'm currently working on the problem of
automatically classifying productsbased on their titles and other
attributes, combined with feedback loopsfrom customer behavior.
It's an interesting job and I'm really enjoyingit, although I
frequently regret not taking Statistics at Williams--I'm still working
to make up the loss!" Mike and his wife Irene are expecting a baby girl
(their first) in June, 2008.
Donald Tufts '55 received
three of his four academic degrees from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B. '57, S.M. '58, and
Sc.D. '60, all in Electrical Engineering. Since 1967 he has been
Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the University of Rhode Island.
Lisa Uebelacker '94 is a
research psychologist at Brown.
Chris Umans '96: After
receiving a PhD in computer science at Berkeley and doing a two-year
postdoc at Microsoft, he is an assistant professor at Caltech in
theoretical computer science.
Karen von Haam '89: Went to
medical school at Ohio State University,
then residency in Phoenix, Arizona. She ultimately ended up in
Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where she has been working as a family
physician since 1999.
Henry Walker '69 received a PhD
in mathematics from MIT in 1979, and a masters in computer cience from
the Univiersity of Iowa in 1979. He is a professor of computer science
at Grinnell College. He has published eight books, including, most
recently, the Tao of Computing.
Eric Watson '97: After a stint
at Linfield College in Oregon, he is the head soccer coach at the State
University of New York at New Paltz, where he lives with his wife Paola
Gentry '98 and his children Aracely and Oliver.
Brian Wecht '97, after a
PhD in physics at UCSD and a postdoc in the Center
for Theoretical Physics at MIT, is a postdoc in the High Energy
Theoretical Physics group at the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, NJ. He got married on October 20, 2007.
Ted Welsh '95 finished his PhD
in applied mathematics at Duke and is teaching at Westfield State, just
down the road from Williams.
Craig Westerland '99: After
receiving his Ph. D. in algebraic topology from the University of
Michigan in 2004, Craig spent 2004-2005 at the Institute for Advanced
Study. He is now a Van Vleck Assistant Professor at the University of
Wisconsin in Madison.
Krystal Williams '96 is working
for the John Deere company in their overseas location in Mannheim,
Germany.
Martin Williams '78 reports
that he was enticed into math by his first calculus course with
Professor Victor Hill, that he especially liked analysis, and that he
did a senior project on affine geometry. After Williams he went to
Harvard Medical School. He was named the Director of Surgery at Carney
Hospital in Boston. He says that "the clear and critical thinking
skills that I learned in the Math Dept. at Williams have been valuable
and indispensable."
Alexandre Wolfe '99 finished
his math PhD under Robert Lazarsfeld at the University of Michigan.
Alexander Woo '97 finished his
math PhD at UC-Berkeley, and has a postdoc at UC-Davis.
Charles Worrall '94 is teaching
at the Horace Mann School in New York City.
Matt Wyskiel '91 reports: "I
recently left Mercantile Bank where I put my math skills to good use as
a taxable fixed income analyst and portfolio manager for institutional
clients. Colleagues at Mercantile viewed me as very good at math, so
they had trouble believing that I [was] the dumbest/worst math student
in many of my upper-level Williams math classes."
Cara Yoder '99 is now in
Houston at St. John's School as college counselor/math teacher/swim
coach. She is also tutoring, swimming on a master's team, and regional
co-president of the Williams alum association.
Takeshi Yokoo '96 received his
MD and PhD in applied math from Mount Sinai/NYU in 2005, and is
currently a radiology resident at UCSD Medical Center. He is doing
research in MRI physics, signal analysis, and image analysis, using my
applied math background.
Leila Zelnick '00, after
teaching math and statistics at her alma mater, Broken Arrow High
School, is pursuing another masters (this time in statistics) at
Oklahoma State University.
Jason Zimba '91, teaching
physics at our neighbor Bennington College,
reports that he and Rebecca just had daughter Abigail.