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I am a math professor at Southern Utah University, recently ranked one
of the Top 10 Universities in the Nation
for quality and value by Consumer's Digest. Right after my Ph.D.
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o Besides working to advance my research in PDEs, I have done doing research with Bruce Johnson in the physics department at ASU and Rick Puetter at UC San Diego (at the center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences). This project involves detecting the underlying energy layers in ion channels using a statistical maximum likelihood method called the Pixon method. Most fits in the past have been done with a few discrete exponentials, but we find it plausible to consider a continuous distribution for the energy layers. |
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o Math has got to be the best subject to teach. I think it is so great because it is not nearly as much memorization as it is developing abilities, logical processes and techniques to apply to problems to be solved. All sciences are fun in the same way, but then I don’t have to spend tons of time putting together labs! |
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I am married to the former Tifani Acord of |
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o Here are some pictures of the family
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o My favorite thing to do in my spare time is just to spend time with my wife and children. |
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My family and I are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I was Bishop of the Jonesboro Ward for
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o I like to jog, play basketball, and lift weights. I also love to play catch with anything: baseball, football, or Frisbee (sorry, novelty flying disc). Luckily, all of my kids so far love sports, so I never have to throw things up in the air to myself. I have coached my kids’ soccer, baseball, and basketball teams lots of times. |
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I enjoy being in the outdoors, to fish, camp,
or just enjoy nature. There is no better place to do this that I have
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o I love reading, and when I don't have time to open up a book listening to a book on tape suits me fine. I am a fanatic of religious literature, especially of the ancient Christian genre (my favorite: The Shepherd of Hermas) and classics. All the best stuff is there: The greatest minds from the past. When one can read ancient religious literature or Dostoevsky, Joyce, Hardy, Conrad, Forster, Tolstoy, Twain, Melville, Maugham (one of the best!), Buck, Wells, Stoker, Steinbeck, Shelley, or even Stephen King (now there’s a decent modern writer), it is hard to be patient with the others, or especially with television. I wish I could find a show that I thought was worth watching, though, besides The Simpsons reruns and sports…. |
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o Some of my favorite links follow:
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I hate war as only a
soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its
futility, its stupidity.
–Dwight Eisenhower
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. –Voltaire
War is a way of
shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the
depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses
too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. –George Orwell, 1984
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. –James Madison |
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But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. –Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:39