Jeff Blanchard
Research Assistant Professor
VIGRE Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Utah

Excursion to Halstadt, Austria from "STROBL07: Trends in Harmonic Analysis", Strobl, Austria, 2007

As of August 1, 2009, I have moved to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA. Go to my eerily similar new home page.

Who I am :

• I am a Research Assistant Professor (VIGRE Postdoctoral Fellow) under the VIGRE grant in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah. I received my Ph.D. in 2007 from Washington University in St. Louis under the direction of Professors Guido Weiss and Edward Wilson.

Office Location :

• LCB 337

Current Course :

• MATH 5750, Wavelets and Applications, Spring 2009 , 9:10-10:30, JWB 333

Previous Courses :

• MATH 5610, Introduction to Numerical Analysis I, Fall 2008 , 8:35-9:25, LCB 225
• MATH 1220, Section 4, Calculus II, Spring 2008
• MATH 1210, Section 5, Calculus I, Fall 2007

More information:

• I am a 2008-2009 Project NExT Fellow. My Fellowship is partially funded by the ExxonMobil Foundation.
• My Research
• I am currently the coordinator for the Undergraduate Problem Solving Competition.

Making Good Choices:

• Choosing an advisor is a big deal. Gustav Dirichlet had two advisors: Simeon Poisson and Jean-Baptiste Fourier. Good choices.
• Taking on a student is a big deal. Johann Pfaff had only two students: Carl Gauss and August Mobius. As a result, Pfaff has 44,222 mathematical descendants (or 35% of the mathematicians recorded in the mathematics genealogy project) as of Sept. 23, 2008. Good choices.
  • Certainly there are other examples of good choices of students, for example Lagrange having only three students, two of which are Simeon Poisson and Jean-Baptiste Fourier. Good choices.