Jeff Blanchard
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Grinnell College

In search of wellness.

Basic Information:

• I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Grinnell College. For 2007-2009, I was a Research Assistant Professor (VIGRE Postdoctoral Fellow) under the VIGRE grant in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah. I received my Ph.D. in 2007 from Washington University in St. Louis under the direction of Professors Guido Weiss and Edward Wilson.
• My Research is partially supported by the National Science Foundation under the award NSF DMS 1112612.
• During 2010, I was a National Science Foundation International Research Fellow conducting research with the Edinburgh Compressed Sensing group at the University of Edinburgh and led by Mike Davies and Jared Tanner. That research was funded under award number OISE 0854991.

Office Location:

• Noyce Science Center 2516

Weekly Schedule:

• The colored time periods blocked out on the following schedule are committed times. Obviously, during office hours you are encouraged to drop by, but you may also drop by during the uncommitted time periods. It is best to make an appointment via email to ensure I will be in my office and to help me plan. A specific period on Thursday is set for appointments, but appointments can also be made during the uncommitted (white) time periods.

Current Courses:

• MAT 133: Calculus II, MTWF, 8:00-8:50, Noyce 2243
• MAT 314: Topics in Applied Mathematics: Compressed Sensing, MWF, 9:00-9:50, Noyce 3820

Previous Courses:

• MAT 131: Calculus I
  • Section 3, Fall 2009
  • Section 5, Fall 2009
  • Section 2, Fall 2012
• MAT 133: Calculus II
  • Section 1, Spring 2011
  • Section 2, Spring 2011
  • Section 2, Fall 2011
  • Section 3, Fall 2011
• MAT 220: Differential Equations
  • Fall 2009
  • Spring 2012
  • Fall 2012
• MAT 306: Mathematical Modeling, Spring 2012
• MAT 316: Foundations of Analysis, Spring 2011
• MAT 338: Complex Analysis, Fall 2011
• MAT 395: Numerical Analysis, Fall 2012

Previous Courses @ Utah:

• MATH 5750, Wavelets and Applications, Spring 2009 ,
• MATH 5610, Introduction to Numerical Analysis I, Fall 2008 ,
• MATH 1220, Section 4, Calculus II, Spring 2008
• MATH 1210, Section 5, Calculus I, Fall 2007

More information:

• My Research
• Short CV
• I was awarded the NSF International Research Fellowship and spent Jan-Dec 2010 pursuing research at the University of Edinburgh.
• I am a 2008-2009 Project NExT Fellow. My Fellowship was partially funded by the ExxonMobil Foundation.

Making Good Choices:

• Choosing an advisor is a big deal. Gustav Dirichlet had two advisors: Simeon Poisson and Jean-Baptiste Fourier. Good choices.
• Taking on a student is a big deal. Johann Pfaff had only two students: Carl Gauss and August Mobius. As a result, Pfaff has 55,843 mathematical descendants (or 36% of the mathematicians recorded in the mathematics genealogy project) as of August 18, 2011. Good choices.
  • Certainly there are other examples of good choices of students, for example Lagrange having only three students, two of which are Simeon Poisson and Jean-Baptiste Fourier. Good choices.