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I am a second-year graduate student in Applied Math at UC Davis. I have always been fascinated with the natural world and now use math to study ecology and evolution. I enjoy playing sports and being active. | I am a second-year graduate student in Applied Math at UC Davis. I have always been fascinated with the natural world and now use math to study ecology and evolution. I love both math and evolution very much. As an undergraduate I did research in phylogenetics and a little bit of population genetics to understand evolution of Amazonian birds, with an emphasis on toucans. I continued research in this area after graduating and really missed doing math, so then decided to pursue graduate school in Applied Math and study evolution, as a perfect blend of my main interests. Over the past two years, I have spent much of my time learning/thinking about (to varying degrees) dynamical systems, singular perturbation theory (which is appropriate for studying processes that happen on different scales), analysis (not data analysis), numerical analysis (PDEs), and game theory, which I would love to now apply to an unique problem. | ||
In addition, I enjoy playing sports and being active. Here is my website for more info: www.math.ucdavis.edu/~swati | |||
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I am a second-year graduate student in Applied Math at UC Davis. I have always been fascinated with the natural world and now use math to study ecology and evolution. I love both math and evolution very much. As an undergraduate I did research in phylogenetics and a little bit of population genetics to understand evolution of Amazonian birds, with an emphasis on toucans. I continued research in this area after graduating and really missed doing math, so then decided to pursue graduate school in Applied Math and study evolution, as a perfect blend of my main interests. Over the past two years, I have spent much of my time learning/thinking about (to varying degrees) dynamical systems, singular perturbation theory (which is appropriate for studying processes that happen on different scales), analysis (not data analysis), numerical analysis (PDEs), and game theory, which I would love to now apply to an unique problem.
In addition, I enjoy playing sports and being active. Here is my website for more info: www.math.ucdavis.edu/~swati