Lindsay Crowl Erickson
Contact:
crowl@math.utah.edu
T: (801) 585-1635
http://www.math.utah.edu/˜crowl
Education
Research
Experience
Address:
University of Utah
155 South 1400 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090
Ph.D. Candidate, Mathematics: University of Utah
Expected 2010
M.S., Mathematics: University of Utah, GPA 4.0
May 2006
B.S., Mathematics: Harvey Mudd College, GPA 3.6
May 2004
Thesis Project
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Advisor: Aaron Fogelson
Developed a lattice Boltzmann-Immersed Boundary method
to simulate arterial blood flow in order to elucidate a
transport phenomenon known as lateral platelet motion
Lab Rotation: Bioengineering
Advisor: Connie Hall (Illinois Institure of Technology)
Research Project: Critical Size of SA node
Advisor: James P. Keener (University of Utah)
Publications
2006-Present
2007
2006-7
IGERT Lab Rotation: Sanguinetti Lab
Advisor: David Piper (CVRTI)
2005
Internship: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Advisor: Matthew Hecht
Modeled ocean eddies using POP (Parallel Ocean Program)
2004
Harvey Mudd College Clinic Project
Advisor: Alfonso Castro (Harvey Mudd)
Liason: Darryl Holm (Los Alamos National Lab)
Analyzed the behavior of soliton solutions to the Camassa-Holm
equation
2004
Cancer Research Project
Advisor: Lisette DePillis (Harvey Mudd College)
2003
Keck Graduate Institute
Advisor: Herbert Sauro
Explored stochastic resonance in bistable switches
2003
L.M. Crowl and A.L. Fogelson, Compuational Model of Whole Blood
Exhibiting Lateral Platelet Motion Induced by Red Blood Cells, in
Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering,
Published Online: June 22, 2009
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Selected
Presentations
Contributed Talk
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Minneapolis
Investigating the fluid mechanics behind red blood
cell-induced lateral platelet motion
November 22, 2009
Invited Talk, Minisymposium Speaker
SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences, Montreal
Investigating platelet motion toward vessel walls in the presence
of red blood cells
Seminar Speaker
Mathematical Biology Seminar, University of Utah
Adhesion and Aggregation of Platelets
Honors and
Scholarships
Professional
Memberships
Computer
Skills
APS Travel Grant
Landah Travel Award to SMB Annual Meeting
VIGRE Fellowship
NSF Research Training Group Fellowship
SIAM Student Travel Award for SIAM-LS08
NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research
Traineeship (IGERT) Fellowhip
Dean’s List of Distinguished Students
(all graded semesters at Harvey Mudd College)
August 5, 2008
September 5, 2007
November 2009
July 2009
Fall 2009
2007-9
August 2008
2004-6
2001-2004
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society of Mathematical Biology
American Mathematical Society
Association for Women in Mathematics
Matlab, Maple, XXPaut, Fortran 90/95, MPI, OpenMP, LaTeX,
Linux/Unix, HTML
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