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Mathematical
Modeling Contest
Outside Interests
Contact Information
Kevin Christoher Murphy
Department of AMCS
15 MacLean Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1419
Office Phone: (319) 335-3767
E-mail: kcmurphy@math.uiowa.edu
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About Me
To start things off, my middle name is actually Christoher and
not Christopher due to a typo on my birth certificate and my
appreciation of the uniqueness it gives an otherwise common name. I am currently a graduate student at the University
of Iowa in the Department
of Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences. I'm working
towards a Ph. D. by applying mathematics to Quantum Physics ground
state problems. This is my sixth year here in Iowa,
and I hope to finish in the spring of 2009. I earned my B.A. degree from
Augustana College in Rock
Island, Illinois, where I studied math, physics, chemistry and
psychology.
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My office is
in room 225N MacLean Hall. Find MacLean
Hall
Math Modeling Contest at Iowa
For the first time in our history, The University of Iowa
entered teams in this year's
Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) and
Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM) run by COMAP. I
was one of seven math graduate students that helped mentor
undergraduates and helped prepare them for the four day contest in
early February. The results are in, and every Iowa team took
home at least an Honorable Mention distinction (top 50%) with one group
even receiving Meritorious (top 14%)! It was an incredible showing for a
first effort. With a year of experience under our belts and the
undergraduates that I worked with (Miller Li, Boanne MacGregor,
and Luke Wassink) still around for 2009, we hope to improve upon
the Honorable Mention showing.
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