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     {\large  \bf VIGRE Funding Proposal --- Part I --- Spring 2010}
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\noindent  {\bf Name:}  John Kerl

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\noindent  {\bf Program:} Math

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\noindent  {\bf Academic year funding requested:} Spring 2010

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\noindent  {\bf Summer funding requested:}  (1 or 2 months)  No

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\noindent  {\bf Year of entry into PhD program:}   Fall 2005

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\noindent {\bf Date of passing the PhD qualifying examinations:} August 2007

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\noindent {\bf Date and result of oral comprehensive examination:} Pass, January 2009

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\noindent {\bf Who is your dissertation advisor, if you have one?} Tom Kennedy

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Research summary:
I utilize methods including Markov chain Monte Carlo, high-performance
computing, statistics, and finite-size scaling to determine the critical
temperature of phase transitions for a simplified model of the Bose gas.

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\noindent {\bf Previous funding:}
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Fall   '09: & VIGRE support \\
Summer '09: & VIGRE support \\
Spring '09: & NSF grant DMS-0601075 \\
Fall   '08: & Math dept. TA, Calculus I \\
Spring '08: & NSF grant DMS-0601075 \\
Fall   '07: & Graduate computing assistant \\
Spring '07: & Math dept. TA, Calculus I \\
Fall   '06: & Math dept. TA, Trigonometry \\
Summer '06: & Qualifying-exam support (through VIGRE) \\
Spring '06: & Math dept. TA, College Algebra \\
Fall   '05: & Math dept. TA, College Algebra \\
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\noindent 
{\bf List all the activities you plan to participate in during the 
funded period:}

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\noindent {\bf Academic activities:}
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\item Conference attendance/participation: AMS/MAA Joint Meetings, January 2010, San Francisco, CA.

\item Conference attendance/participation: 23rd Annual Workshop on Recent
Developments in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics,
February 21-26, 2010, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

\item Complete PhD (expected May 2010).
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\noindent {\bf Professional development and outreach:}
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\item I will continue to work with Tom Kennedy's multi-level (faculty, graduate
students, undergraduate students) bridge group, focusing in particular on
mentoring of undegraduates and junior graduates.

\item I will continue to co-organize (with Tom Kennedy) the mathematical
physics seminar, as I have done for fall 2009.

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\noindent  \textbf{Talks given:}

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\textbf{\underline{Title}} &
\textbf{\underline{Series/conference}} &
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\emph{Python for the working (or aspiring) mathematician} &
UA Software Interest Group &
Oct. 2009 \\

\emph{Critical behavior for the model of random spatial permutations} &
UA Math. Phys. Seminar&
Sep. 2009 \\

\emph{Markov Jabberwocky: fesh, excenture, and the like} &
UA Grad. Colloquium &
Aug. 2009 \\

\emph{Numerical methods for random spatial permutations} &
Stochastic processes and their applications (Berlin) &
Jul. 2009 \\

\emph{Lattice quadrupling for percolation in quantum networks} &
Workshop on quantum spin systems and applications in quantum computation
(Tucson)
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Jun. 2009 \\
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\emph{Remarks on interacting spatial permutations and the Bose gas} &
Comprehensive examination &
Jan. 2009 \\

\emph{Computational methods in percolation} &
UA Grad. Colloquium &
Oct. 2008 \\

\emph{High-performance arithmetic} &
UA Applied Brown Bag &
Oct. 2008 \\

\emph{Lattice quadrupling for percolation in quantum networks} &
UA Math. Phys. Seminar &
Oct. 2008 \\
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\emph{C for math folks} &
UA Software Interest Group &
Apr. 2008 \\

\emph{Monte Carlo methods for interacting spatial permutations} &
UA Math. Phys. Seminar &
Apr. 2008 \\

\emph{Quantum mechanics for math grads} &
UA Grad. Colloquium &
Mar. 2008 \\
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\emph{The Metropolis-Hastings algorithm by example} &
UA Grad. Probability Seminar &
Feb. 2008 \\

\emph{Numerical Differential Geometry in Matlab} &
UA Grad. Colloquium &
Jan. 2008 \\

\emph{Is 2 a random number?} &
UA Grad. Colloquium &
Sep. 2007 \\
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\emph{The Householder transformation, Swiss Army knife of numerical linear algebra} &
UA Grad. Colloquium &
Feb. 2007 \\

\emph{Perl for the working (or aspiring) mathematician} &
UA Software Interest Group &
Oct. 2006 \\

\emph{Tensorama} &
UA Grad. Colloquium &
Sep. 2006 \\
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\emph{Concrete abstract algebra in Python} &
UA Software Interest Group &
Apr. 2006 \\

\emph{A walking tour through projective spaces} &
UA Grad. Colloquium &
Mar. 2006 \\

\emph{Computation in finite fields} &
UA Grad. Colloquium &
Jan. 2006 \\
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\emph{Introduction to the} \texttt{vim} \emph{text editor} &
UA Software Interest Group &
Sep. 2005 \\

\emph{Linear feedback shift registers} &
UA Grad. Colloquium &
Sep. 2005 \\

\emph{Codes and Curves} &
Master's thesis defense &
Apr. 2005 \\
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\emph{High-performance arithmetic} &
ASU/Lockheed Martin Seminar Series &
Oct. 2004 \\

\emph{An introduction to coding theory for mathematics students} &
ASU Grad. Seminar &
Sep. 2004 \\

\emph{Linear feedback shift registers} &
ASU Grad. Seminar &
Apr. 2004 \\
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\emph{A reference design for FPGA-based Linux applications} &
DesignCon &
Feb. 2004 \\

\emph{A reference design for embedded ucLinux on a Motorola ColdFire processor} &
DesignCon &
Feb. 2004 \\

\emph{Computation in finite fields} &
ASU Grad. Seminar &
Dec. 2003 \\

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{\bf Which seminars do you regularly attend?}

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Grad student colloquium

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Mathematics colloquium

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Mathematical physics seminar

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{\bf List any publications:}

None to date.

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\noindent {\bf Graduate coursework at the U of A}:

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\textbf{Sem./Yr.} & \multicolumn{2}{|l|}{\textbf{Course no.}} & \textbf{Title} & \textbf{Grade} & \textbf{Instructor} \\

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\hline Fa. '05   & Math &511A & Abstract Algebra  & A & Grove \\
\hline Fa. '05   & Math &523A & Real Analysis     & B & Faris \\
\hline Fa. '05   & Math &534A & Geometry-topology & A & Pickrell \\
\hline Fa. '05   & Math &597T & Teaching workshop & A & Varecka \\

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\hline Sp. '06 & Math &511B & Abstract Algebra    & A & Grove \\
\hline Sp. '06 & Math &523B & Real Analysis       & A & Faris \\
\hline Sp. '06 & Math &534B & Geometry-topology   & A & Pickrell \\
\hline Sp. '06 & Math &597T & Teaching workshop   & A & Varecka \\

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% '06-2007

\hline
\hline Fa. '06   & Math &528A & Banach and                    & A & Fatkullin \\
                 &      &     & Hilbert Spaces                &   &           \\
\hline Fa. '06   & Math &559A & Lie Groups                    & A & Palmer \\
                 &      &     & and Lie Algebras              &   &        \\
\hline Fa. '06   & Math &596G & Research Tutorial Group       & A & Palmer \\

\hline
\hline Sp. '07 & Math &538  & Special Topics                  & A & Glickenstein \\
               &      &     &                (Circle Packing) &   &              \\
\hline Sp. '07 & Math &559B & Lie Groups                      & A & Palmer \\
               &      &     & and Lie Algebras                &   &        \\
\hline Sp. '07 & Math &564  & Probability                     & A & Kennedy \\

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\hline
\hline Fa. '07   & Math &537A & Global Diff. Geom.  & A & Glickenstein \\
\hline Fa. '07   & Math &563A & Theoretical Probability       & A & Kennedy \\
\hline Fa. '07   & Math &541  & Mathematical Physics          & A & Wehr \\

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\hline Sp. '08 & Math &565C & Stochastic Diff. Eqns. & A & Wehr \\
\hline Sp. '08 & Math &567A & Theoretical Statistics            & A & Bhattacharya \\
\hline Sp. '08 & Math &599  & Independent study                 & S & Wehr \\
               &      &     & (Quantum Information) &   &     \\

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\hline
\hline Fa. '08   & Math & 541     & Mathematical Physics  & A & Kennedy \\
\hline Fa. '08   & Physics & 570A & Quantum mechanics     & B & Fleming \\
\hline Fa. '08   & Math & 900     & Research              & S & Kennedy \\

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\hline Sp. '09 & Math & 566   & Theory of Statistics      & A & Piegorsch \\
\hline Sp. '09 & Math & 565A  & Stochastic Processes      & A & Faris \\
\hline Sp. '09 & Math & 920   & Dissertation              & S & Kennedy \\

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\hline
\hline Fa. '09   & Math & 920 & Dissertation              & TBD & Kennedy \\
\hline Fa. '09   & ECE  & 503  & Probability and random   & TBD & Vasic \\
                 &      &      & processes in engineering &   &     \\

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Sp. '10 & Math  & 920 & Dissertation               & TBD & Kennedy \\

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