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My name is Caroline Williams. Pronounced CARE-line WILL-yums (not any of this Care-LYNN business but like the state in which Duke is located without the 'A' at the end)
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==About Me==
 
==About Me==
 
*Current student of The Pratt School of Engineering.
 
*Current student of The Pratt School of Engineering.
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==Grand Challenge==
 
==Grand Challenge==
 
[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110913103056.htm],''Science Daily'',updated 13 Sept 2011, accessed 21 Sept 2011 (Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure).
 
[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110913103056.htm],''Science Daily'',updated 13 Sept 2011, accessed 21 Sept 2011 (Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure).
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==Miscellaneous==
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*My favorite demo was the the code for the Klein bottle and the Teapot under 3D visualization. I enjoyed these in particular because it reminded me of a topology course I once took about how coffee cups and donuts are the same thing. The Klein bottle seems to be an advanced version of the mobius strip that is now more like a mobius cylinder and thus impossible to actually create in our 3D dimension.

Revision as of 03:30, 23 September 2011

My name is Caroline Williams. Pronounced CARE-line WILL-yums (not any of this Care-LYNN business but like the state in which Duke is located without the 'A' at the end)

About Me

  • Current student of The Pratt School of Engineering.
  • Future Civil Engineer in the making
  • Wanna be limerick writer

Grand Challenge

[1],Science Daily,updated 13 Sept 2011, accessed 21 Sept 2011 (Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure).

Miscellaneous

  • My favorite demo was the the code for the Klein bottle and the Teapot under 3D visualization. I enjoyed these in particular because it reminded me of a topology course I once took about how coffee cups and donuts are the same thing. The Klein bottle seems to be an advanced version of the mobius strip that is now more like a mobius cylinder and thus impossible to actually create in our 3D dimension.