Personal Information
Zackary R. Kenz
Second-Year Graduate Student
Center for Research in Scientific Computation
Department of Mathematics
North Carolina State University
Office: Cox 503
Advisor: H.T. Banks
Support: GAANN Fellowship (Fall 2009 - present)
Interests
Inverse problem methodology, mathematical and statistical
Nonlinear filtering, with applications to HIV infection modeling
Elasticity, applied to soil and buried objects in soil
Control theory
Research Projects
Elasticity simulations of impacted soil
Nonlinear filtering applied to a model of an AIDS infection in the body
--CRSC Technical Report: A Comparison of Nonlinear Filtering Approaches in the Context of an HIV Model
Algebraic Interleavers in Turbo Code context (Summer REU at AMSSI)
--Technical Report: Algebraic Interleavers in Turbo Codes
Delay Dynamic Equations (undergraduate research with advisor Douglas R. Anderson
--Global asymptotic behavior for delay dynamic equations, Nonlinear Analysis, 66 (2007) 1633-1644.
Presentations
Invited Presentation, SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications, Modeling and Control of Distributed Parameter Systems minisymposium, Denver, CO, A Comparison of Nonlinear Filtering Approaches in the Context of an HIV Model, 7 July 2009.
Seminars
Applied Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar, North Carolina State University. Gave current research talks on: 31 Aug 2009
Service
President, Mathematics Graduate Student Association (Fall 2009-present)
Current Courses (Spring 2010)
MA 732, Ordinary Differential Equations II (R. Martin)
MA 734, Partial Differential Equations II (A. Chertock)
MA 780, Numerical Analysis II (C.T. Kelley)
MA 791, Special Topics: Functional Analysis (H.T. Banks)
Previous Coursework
My Erdos Number is 4.
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