Tim Chartier

Davidson College
Department of Mathematics
Box 6908
Davidson, NC 28035-6908
Phone: (704) 894-2838
Fax: (704) 894-2005
Email: tichartier@davidson.edu
Office: Chambers 3044
Image created by
Gavin Taylor ('06)
based on MAT 210 project

Introduction

I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Davidson College. I hold both a B.S. degree in applied mathematics and a M.S. degree in computational mathematics from Western Michigan University. I received my Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. During 2001-2003 I held a VIGRE postdoctoral position in the Mathematics Department at the University of Washington. For more information on my activity, see my curriculum vitae (last modified Fall 2006).

Selected Teaching Resources

Using the Force of Math in Star Wars - makes mathematical connections to the special effects used to digitally create the character of Yoda.
Math Murder Mystery - Resources for hosting a Math Murder Mystery prepared by Davidson College math majors from the class of 2006.
Rising to the occasion of modeling card shuffling - contains an interactive applet for this famous model
Online Academic Review Games

Quadric Surfaces -- Identification
Chain Rule and Second Partials
Mathematica 3.0 and Quadric Surfaces
Introduction to FORTRAN programming -- The goal of this workshop was to offer an introduction to programming in FORTRAN.
Round-off error and the Intel chip -- A few slides that motivate the importance and potential cost of errors in computing. (PDF file)

Research

My research focuses on the development, study, and analysis of numerical algorithms for partial differential equations. Increasing computer power drives a need for algorithms whose performance scales linearly as the problem size increases. The breadth of computational science is closely intertwined with the successful development of such algorithms. In particular, my research focuses on multigrid and specifically, Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) methods. For a short introduction to MG methods, click here.

Misc

Mathematical Art: the art of raytracing - a web page designed to introduce Calculus students to raytracing
Tim and Tanya Chartier's Art - a personal web site on rather nonmathematical interests of the Chartiers

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