Nathaniel Barlow
Associate Professor
Nathaniel Barlow
Associate Professor
Education
BS, Ph.D., Clarkson University
Bio
Nate received his Ph.D. in 2009 from Clarkson University in Mechanical Engineering. His research background is in hydrodynamic stability analysis (particularly absolute/convective instability classification) and the long-time behavior of dispersive waves in fluids. From 2010-2014, Nate was an NSF CI-TraCS Postdoctoral Fellow, splitting his time between the Chemical Engineering Department and the Center for Computational Research at SUNY Buffalo. As a post-doc, Nate helped create the method of asymptotic approximants, a re-summation technique used to analytically continue truncated and/or divergent series. Since joining RIT, Nate has partnered with his long-time collaborator and co-creator of asymptotic approximants, Steve Weinstein, to build a research group of students and faculty with the goal of progressing efforts in asymptotic analysis in general.
Teaching is an underlying theme in Nate's career. During the first two years of his Ph.D., Nate was an NSF G-K12 graduate teaching fellow, running weekly science and engineering lessons in K-12 classrooms across NY from the Adirondacks to the Bronx. During the last few years of his Ph.D., Nate was a full-time instructor in the Math Department at Clarkson University; In 2009, he won Clarkson's Outstanding Teaching Award for Graduate Students. Continuing on a path of teaching excellence at RIT, Nate has won the 2017/2018 RIT Innovative Teaching with Technology Award, the 2017/2018 Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and an Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching (2020/2021).
For more information on his joint research group with Steve Weinstein, news items, and an updated publication list, go here. For pictures of Nate's 3D Math prints check out his instagram site. For other fun math/teaching stuff, check out Nate's personal site.
When not doing math research, Nate can be found writing sentences in the third person, such as "When not doing math research, Nate can be found writing sentences in the third person, such as "When not doing math research...
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In the News
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May 6, 2024
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RIT graduate pursues Ph.D. across time zones
Nastaran Nagshineh, a Ph.D. candidate at RIT, successfully bridged the Rochester and Dubai campuses, paving the way for future international students. Nagshineh is one of 67 Ph.D. students who defended their thesis this academic year and who will earn their doctorate.
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April 14, 2021
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Eisenhart Award winner Nathaniel Barlow strives to bring out the fun in math
Embracing experimentation in the classroom has worked well for Associate Professor Nathaniel Barlow, who is receiving an Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching—RIT’s highest honor for tenured faculty—in just his first year as tenured faculty.
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August 12, 2020
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Faculty-Student Collaboration Responsible for COVID Modeling Development
Two RIT students collaborated with faculty and co-authored their first paper which contributes to the body of knowledge surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
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October 11, 2021
College of Science team publishes paper comparing COVID testing and wastewater sampling
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March 9, 2021
School of Mathematical Sciences faculty present at conference
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August 5, 2020
Team has article published on epidemic model
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June 12, 2020
RIT professors’ study helps predict infection rate of Covid-19
Featured Work
RIT Undergraduates Advance the Technique of Asymptotic Approximants Created by the Barlow-Weinstein Group
Nathaniel Barlow
Four undergraduate students presented their research on the analytical solution to the classical Falkner-Skan equation that describes boundary layer flow over a wedge.