Doug Babcock
Graduate student
Department of Mathematics
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
dbabcock@math.purdue.edu
B.A. in Mathematics (with honors;
Linn Smith Prize for Excellence in Mathematics), Grinnell College, 2006.
Graduate student, Purdue University, 2006-present.
I gave a talk on 25 September 2008 here at Purdue:
"The Hyperreal Numbers and Applications
to Elementary Calculus."
I gave another talk on 13 March 2009, on the paper "The Elementary
Theory of Restricted Analytic Fields with Exponentiation" by Lou van
den Dries, Angus Macintyre, and David Marker.
In Fall 2009, I am teaching one section of MA 23100 (Calculus for the Life Sciences I), and grading for MA 58500 (Mathematical Logic I).
If you came looking for information about MA 23100, then you may wish to visit the course web page, or perhaps my resource page for the course.
Past teaching:
My research interests (for the time being) include logic, model theory, nonstandard analysis, and nonstandard real algebraic geometry. I am presently working on showing the the theory of a particular nonstandard real closed field has quantifier elimination, and that the field is o-minimal. I believe that I am reasonably close to a solution, and hope to extend this result to a more general setting.
I am a fourth-year graduate student. I grew up in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, and attended Grinnell College, a small liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa. I enrolled as a mathematics graduate student at Purdue directly after graduating from Grinnell. My field of study is logic, and my advisor is Leonard Lipshitz.
Created July 2006.
Last revised 15 November 2009.
