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I teach mathematics and physics at San Diego City College, and also carry out research in both physics and mathematics. My main interests lie in modeling and optimization with PDEs and applications of HPC. My PhD in Physics is from University of Washington, and I have worked as a consultant in applied mathematics, and as an experimental physicist. My initial interests when getting my degree lay in basic functional analysis and convex optimization (with an ABD in pure math) and then, in physics, in physical chemistry and the theory of phase transitions. My PhD thesis concerned renormalization group theory, Pade approximants, and series analysis generalizations of that, which I applied in basic Ising-like models. At the time of the degree, I was mainly interested in learning Wilson's approach to RG, but have since gotten interested in physical chemistry more broadly. I am now basically specializing in fluid physics and extreme physics and am Director of Pacific Institute for Fluid Physics in San Diego. COVID and having to address some rather serious illness problems (especially for my wife who recently died of cancer) seriously crippled my research, but I hope to get at least one new paper published within the next two years. Been kinda a sad time for me. I have become highly skilled at teaching math and physics online over the past two years, and really believe online ed has enormous potential to help students worldwide. Still, we see that in many ways, we are in a pretty difficult transition period there right now. I have taught part time at San Diego City College for many years, but only focused on online ed over the past two.