Rice University. Houston, Texas,
PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics, projected May 2003.
W. M. Keck Center of Computational Biology Predoctoral Fellow.
Bryn Mawr College. Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
BA in Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, GPA: 3.8/4.0.
Minor in Economics.
Rachel Vincent
Graduate Student, Computational and Applied Mathematics
W. M. Keck Center of Computational Biology Predoctoral Fellow. Rice
University
Rice University. Houston, Texas. Research Topic: Automatic Detection
of Binding Sites in Proteins via Singular Value Decomposition Analysis.
Familiar with Unix, Macintosh and Windows environments. Programming
skills in Fortran 77/90, C, Matlab. Fall 1999-present.
National Center for Atmospheric Research. Boulder, Colorado. Significant
Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS), Scientific
Computing Division. Wrote and implemented MATLAB code that performed
a modified Newton's method. Summer 1998.
National Center for Atmospheric Research. Boulder, Colorado. Significant
Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS), Atmospheric
Chemistry Division; Climate & Global Change Division. Performed
sensitivity analysis on a tropospheric chemistry model. Project goal:
provide information about the relative importance of model parameters
to the concentration of model species. Summer 1997.
M. A. Taylor, B. A. Wingate, R. E. Vincent, An Algorithm for Computing
Fekete Points in a Triangle, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 38(5):
1707-1720, DEC 14, 2000.
Educational
Background