Dr. Alex Barnett is a distinguished applied mathematician and musician who teaches mathematics at Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

. He is well known for his high frequency eigenfunction

Eigenfunction

In mathematics, an eigenfunction of a linear operator, A, defined on some function space is any non-zero function f in that space that returns from the operator exactly as is, except for a multiplicative scaling factor. More precisely, one has...

 calculations which are some of the fastest in the world. He attended Cambridge University and received his Ph.D in theoretical physics from Harvard University

Harvard University

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. He has written extensively on topics such as efficient and accurate computational methods for waves, PDE eigenvalue problems, periodic problems, and quantum chaos. He has also done research on mathematical ecology and inverse problems in medical imaging

Medical imaging

Medical imaging is the technique and process used to create images of the human body for clinical purposes or medical science...

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Barnett has been honored with many awards and grants including First Prize in the XXI International Physics Olympiad

International Physics Olympiad

The International Physics Olympiad is an annual physics competition for high school students. It is one of the International Science Olympiads. The first IPhO was held in Warsaw, Poland in 1967....

, The Hockins Prize, The Kennedy Scholarship

Kennedy Scholarship

Kennedy Scholarships provide full funding for six to eight British post-graduate students to study at either Harvard University or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

, The Harold T. White Prize and numerous National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

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 Grants.

Barnett is also an accomplished musician who plays the keyboard in numerous jazz and funk bands. He has composed the music for a number of films by director Liz Canner

Liz Canner

Liz Canner is an award winning American filmmaker who makes documentaries, digital public art installations and new media projects on human rights issues. She often employs cutting edge technologies to explore social issues from a new perspective. A prime example of this is her critically...

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A native of Manchester, England, Barnett currently lives in Vermont with his wife filmmaker Liz Canner.

Liz Canner

Liz Canner is an award winning American filmmaker who makes documentaries, digital public art installations and new media projects on human rights issues. She often employs cutting edge technologies to explore social issues from a new perspective. A prime example of this is her critically...

External links

• http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~ahb/
• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~vox/0506/0403/faculty.html
• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~vox/0708/0107/kudos.html