Alex Barnett is an applied mathematician and numerical analyst, and has been at Dartmouth 4 years. Before that he was a Courant Instructor at NYU, a postdoc in radiology, and has a physics Ph.D. from Harvard. His research interests are efficient and accurate computational methods for waves, PDE eigenvalue problems, periodic problems, and quantum chaos. He also has continued interests in mathematical ecology and inverse problems in medical imaging. Among the courses he teaches is one he created on the mathematics of music and sound, for non-science majors.

(September 2009)