Greg Petrics

	Office Phone:	(603) 646-9809
	Dept. Fax:	(603) 646-1312
	Office:	212 Kemeny Hall
	Office Hours:	Anytime I'm around (and I won't be hiding).
	Email:	Gregory dot C dot lastname at Dartmouth dot edu
	US Mail:	Department of Mathematics 6188 Kemeny Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755-3551 (603) 646-2415

News:

This fall I will be teaching Math 1: Calculus with Algebra. Check it out here.

About me:

Education:

Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics at Dartmouth College

Advisor: Dr. Scott Pauls

I am currently working on a project involving minimal surfaces
in the roto-translation group equipped with a sub-Riemannian metric.
In particular, I am working on finding so called "spanning" minimal
surfaces that fill in "2 dimensional holes" in a given surface.
Such spanning minimal surfaces can be interpreted a disocclusion of an
occluded image. Furthermore, the mathematics behind this technique is believed
to model the process by which the human visual cortex (V1) disoccludes images.

I invite you to mail me with any and all questions about Dartmath,
the area, or anything else! (Especially prospective graduate students)

M.A. Dartmouth College, June 2008

B.A. Middlebury College, February 2006

Advisor: Dr. Frank Swenton

Graduation honors: Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and 2006 Dr. Francis D. Parker, Mathematics Prize recipient.

Undergraduate Thesis: Closed Geodesics. Thesis advisor: Dr. Emily Proctor.

Preprint of Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Paper: Closed Geodesics on Orbifolds of Revolution

I am a licensed 7-12 highly qualified educator in the State of Vermont. I completed a
teaching practicum in the Spring of 2006 at Middlebury High School while working with the
Middlebury College Teacher Education Department.

H.S. Killington Mountain School, 2001

2001 East Coast Junior Olympic Champion: SG (2 races), GS and Overall. 2nd place in SL.

2001 Webber Cup Champion

2001 KMS Academic Excellence Award

Outdoor Pursuits

When not working on math, I also enjoy any surface (2 dimensional) covered in white stuff (snow).
I especially like the snow when the heat equation isn't doing it's thing.
That is, I like the snow the most when the flakes look like this (powder):

and less like this (graupel):

Although without the eventual warmer weather (and the opportunitty for the heat equation
to do it's thing) some steeper faces would never be skiable due to avalanche danger (such as this one):

In any case, here's a slideshow of some of the fun things
I've done on white stuff. Enjoy! (The pages should automatically advance).

Here's some odds and ends from the old website.

Carpe skiem!