Zachary D Clawson

PhD Candidate in Applied Mathematics
Cornell University

657 Rhodes Hall
Center for Applied Mathematics
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14850

Email: zc227@cornell.edu
Phone: (252) 256-1873

CV (Last update: 09/24/2014) CAM Wiki

Education

PhD, Applied Mathematics, NSF Fellow @ Cornell University, 2016 (expected)
MS, Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, 2013
BS, Applied Mathematics, NC State, 2011
Manteo High School, 2007

R. Takei, W. Chen, Z. Clawson, S. Kirov, and A. Vladimirsky
Optimal Control with Budget Constraints and Resets
SIAM J. on Control & Optimization; to appear
[Extended preprint on arXiv.org (2011) | code openly available]

Z. Clawson, A. Chacon, and A. Vladimirsky
Causal Domain Restriction for Eikonal Equations
SIAM J. on Scientific Computing; to appear

Currently not teaching -- on fellowship.

Previous experience

Fall 2014:

Previous coursework (with some materials, e.g. study guides)

Articles:

Mid 2009 (and some 2008, 2010) Macbook Pro RAM not recognized: This article will show how you might be able to temporarily fix your 2009 MBP if it is not recognizing one of the RAM chips. Possibly applies to 2008 and 2010 models as well.
2011 Macbook Pro discrete AMD Graphics Card Failure: I hope this page will help those who have experienced a failure in the 2011 Macbook Pro's discrete AMD graphics card. This article details how to diagnose the issue, come up with a quick fix, and what are long-term options are available.

Notes and guides:

Solving first-order nonlinear PDE: Some notes I created for my final project/presentation in MATH 6200 @ Cornell. Much of the material comes from Evans' text, with some added notes on Calculus of Variations vs. Optimal control + Bellman's optimality principle.

Code I've written (that may be useful):

Profiling in Julia: A MATLAB script that will take the profiling printout from Julia code, process it, and spit out percentage use (backtraces) by function. The results are printed to the MATLAB console as either text or in the LaTeX tabular environment.
EPStoPDF shell script (Unix only): Shell script that (a) converts EPS files to PDF, and (b) compresses them using ghostscript.
Shell script for removing all lines beginning with an expression (Unix only): This is written as a way to remove all comements from your LaTeX files before shipping them off to the editors.

Web design related stuff:

Layout for this website: If you like this site I've provided the layout here (with Steve Strogatz used as my minion).
Tutorial for HTML and CSS: The slides from a workshop I held for my department on how to create your first web site (for academics).

Useful links:

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