Colin B. Macdonald

Associate Professor, Dept of Mathematics
The University of British Columbia

email: cbm[at]math.ubc.ca or cbm[at]m.fsf.org
www: https://www.math.ubc.ca/~cbm
office: LSK 303c

Previous positions
Associate Professor (2014–2015, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)
University Lecturer (2009–2014, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)
Tutorial Fellow (2009–2015, Oriel College, University of Oxford)
Postdoc (2008–2009, UCLA Math Dept with Stan Osher)
Ph.D. (SFU, 2008, with Steve Ruuth)
M.Sc. (SFU, 2003, with Steve Ruuth)
B.Sc. (Acadia University, 2001, with Ray Spiteri)

Teaching

Current and past teaching includes

• 2023 W1 Math 200
• 2023 W1 Math 405
• Math 101
• Math 253
• Math 405/607E
• Math 102
• Math 152
• Science One
• Math 264

Research Team

Most recently I've worked with Ingrid von Glehn, Yujia Chen, and Tom März. See more information about my group including opportunities for students.

Research Interests

• List of publications.
• The Closest Point Method: a new method for PDEs on surfaces.
• Time-stepping for PDEs: constructing Runge-Kutta methods, strong-stability-preserving methods (visit the SSP Site).
• WENO spatial discretizations.
• The Predicted Sequential Regularization Method.
• List of talks and presentations.

Mathematics

• Ph.D. thesis, M.Sc. thesis, B.Sc. thesis.
• Forest fire simulations using level set methods.
• Various course projects, the 2002 GIMMC5 report, and IPSW6 reports.
• Miscellaneous material from the SFU applied math seminars.
• View or download an electronic copy of Abramowitz and Stegun: Handbook of Mathematical Functions.
• The Virtual Album of Hollywood Fluid Motion.

Miscellaneous

My LaTeX page.

A photo gallery of some of my pictures (currently empty).

101 Illustrated Analysis Bedtime Stories: the story of “epsilon-Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem”.