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
office: RI2.14
phone: +44 1865 615168 (w)

Research

• 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).

SFU Teaching

Instructor for Math 113 Euclidean Geometry (2006).

Held various TA positions for Complex Analysis (Math322), Numerical Analysis (Macm316) and the Calculus Workshop.

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".