User:Act29

About Me

I am currently a first-year undergraduate student in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.

Current Courses

For the fall semester, I am currently enrolled in the following classes:

• EGR 103: Computational Methods in Engineering
• CHEM 201: Organic Chemistry
• MATH 216: Linear Algebra & Differential Equations
• LATIN 101: Elementary Latin

Homework 1: Grand Challenges Link

• Links relevant to the Grand Challenges:
  • http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/09/05/shell-and-chevron-to-green-oil-sands-with-carbon-capture-project/, Christopher Helman, Forbes, updated 5 September 2012, accessed 8 September 2012.

Homework 2: MATLAB Demonstrations

• My favorite MATLAB demo is the version of Conway's Game of Life. It is a cellular automaton, where an initial condition is set, and the result is then observed. Each cell is either "alive" or "dead" and changes states depending on the condition of surrounding cells, resulting in fascinating shapes and animations. It is interesting how MATLAB is able to run the calculations more efficiently than the original program. by using sparse matrices.