Intro to HPC & Engaging

Steven Finch

Research Computing Specialist

MIT Sloan School of Management

https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-finch-68662943/

Experience

• Senior IT specialist, departmental webmaster, classroom instructor, scientific/statistical programmer, technical proofreader & writing coach; Harvard University, 2006 to 2016.


• Prior work in government research & development, academic publishing, software industry, and public health.


• Prior courses taught include trigonometry, single & multi-variable calculus, business calculus, linear algebra, introductory statistics, and discrete mathematics with applications to computing.

• M.S. in Mathematics with Applications to Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985.


• B.A. in Mathematics (with Honors), Oberlin College, 1982.

• S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003.


• Z.-Q. Bai and S. R. Finch, Precise calculation of Hausdorff dimension of Apollonian gasket, Fractals 26 (2018) 1850050.


• Z.-Q. Bai and S. R. Finch, Fibonacci and Lucas representations, Fibonacci Quart. 54 (2016) 319-326.


• S. R. Finch, G. Martin and P. Sebah, Roots of unity and nullity modulo n, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010) 2729-2743.


• S. R. Finch and P. Sebah, Comment on "Volumes spanned by random points in the hypercube", Random Structures Algorithms 35 (2009) 390-392.


• S. R. Finch and I. Hueter, Random convex hulls: A variance revisited, Adv. Appl. Probab. 36 (2004) 981-986.


• S. R. Finch and J. E. Wetzel, Lost in a forest, Amer. Math. Monthly 11 (2004) 645-654 [winner of the Ford award].


• R. M. Ziff, S. R. Finch and V. S. Adamchik, Universality of finite-size corrections to the number of critical percolation clusters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 (1997) 3447-3450.