Graduate Assistant at North Carolina State University
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
- Current
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- Graduate Assistant at North Carolina State University
- Past
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- Graduate Assistant at Miami University
- Consultant at Prentke Romich Company
- Tutor at College of Wooster
- Student Researcher at University of Akron
- Consultant at Prentke Romich Company
- Teaching Assistant at College of Wooster
- Education
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- North Carolina State University
- Miami University
- The College of Wooster
- Budapesti Mûszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
- Connections
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James Rohal’s Summary
My career goal is a graduate and doctorate degree in the field of mathematics with concentration in computational mathematics and scientific computing.
James Rohal’s Specialties:
My research interests include computational mathematics, numerical analysis, optimization, nonlinear programming, and computer graphics.
James Rohal’s Experience
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Graduate Assistant
North Carolina State University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
I administer Maple help labs to aid students in Calculus 1, 2, and 3.
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Graduate Assistant
Miami University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 10 months)
My main duty is to teach MTH 104 (Precalculus with Algebra) or MTH 151 (Calculus 1). My primary teaching responsibilities include preparing and presenting all course lectures, writing course exams and quizzes, designing course projects and activities, and assigning student grades.
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Consultant
Prentke Romich Company
(Medical Devices industry)
April 2007 — July 2007 (4 months)
I worked independently on the site http://www.aacinstitute.org/cont-ed which was created using PHP, MySQL, and Javascript. The Continuing Education Tracker is a web application in which participants of Continuing Education activities could receive certificates of completion and see upcoming events. It also allows event organizers to register and publicize their activities.
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Tutor
College of Wooster
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2006 — May 2007 (10 months)
I helped students with homework related questions and created study guides for tests.
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Student Researcher
University of Akron
(Government Agency; Research industry)
June 2006 — July 2006 (2 months)
I worked through the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduate's program. A paper published by Robert Strichartz dealing with fractals over nilpotent Lie groups motivated this REU project. Christoph Bandt developed the sufficient conditions for convergence of an IFS to a self-affine tile in n-dimensional Euclidean space. In a collaborative effort, our REU group proved a theorem similar to Bandt's for nilpotent Lie groups. It was natural to consider nilpotent Lie groups because they are a class of groups that have a metric, an automorphic dilation structure, discrete cocompact subgroups (lattices), and a measure. Our group was able to classify all automorphisms of the Heisenberg group. This allowed us to generate images of fractal tilings over the three-dimensional Heisenberg group using an OpenGL implementation.
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Consultant
Prentke Romich Company
(Medical Devices industry)
May 2005 — July 2005 (3 months)
I added functionality to the Self-Study Site which was designed for the AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) Institute so speech language pathologists, family members, and others who wanted to learn about AAC devices and practices could do so in their own time. This required that I learn PHP, SQL, and CSS.
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Teaching Assistant
College of Wooster
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 2005 — May 2005 (5 months)
I helped answer questions during labs and rewrote labs in LaTeX for readability and compatability with Maple 9.5.
James Rohal’s Education
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North Carolina State University
PhD , Computational Mathematics , 2009 — 2012 (expected)
- Activities and Societies:
- Cycling Club, SIAM
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Miami University
Master of Science , Mathematics , 2007 — 2009
My master's project concerned itself with solving the nonlinear resource allocation problem (P) quickly using interior point and pegging methods. I was supervised by Dr. Stephen Wright.
More details available at:
http://jamesrohal.com/research/- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Beta Kappa
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The College of Wooster
BA , Mathematics, Computer Science , 2003 — 2007
I completed an Independent Study entitled “The SIAM 100.0000000-Digit Challenge: A Study In High Accuracy Numerical Computing Using Interval Analysis and Mathematica.” I considered three of the ten problems.
More details available at:
http://jamesrohal.com/senior-is/- Activities and Societies:
- COW 4 Kids, DJ at WCWS, Go Club, Student Mathematical Association (SMAAC), Xi Chi Psi
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Budapesti Mûszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
Mathematics 2006 — 2006
I studied a semester abroad through the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program in the Spring of 2006.
More information available at:
http://www.bsmath.hu/
Additional Information
James Rohal’s Websites:
James Rohal’s Groups:
AMS, MAA, SIAM, Pi Mu Epsilon, Pi Beta Kappa
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Miami University Alumni Association -
The College of Wooster Alumni -
Applied Mathematics -
Mathematica Users -
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY Official -
MATLAB Users and Integrators -
Friends of Mathematical Association of America -
SIAM -
The Maplesoft Network -
Pi Mu Epsilon -
NCSU Operations Research -
Ebooks for Math and Science -
Sage Math
James Rohal’s Honors:
NSF Student Travel Grant for 2007 Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans.
Academic Achievement Scholarship at the College of Wooster.
Dean’s List of Distinguished Students at the College of Wooster.
James Rohal’s Contact Settings
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