On the ride home from the office today, I remembered a statement I had once heard: “One cannot prove an ‘ought’ statement from an ‘is’ statement”. A rigorous answer as to why this statement was true was not as straightforward as I had originally thought, as to give a precise “proof” of the principle, one must establish what an ought statement, an is statement, and a proof even are. I will attempt to do this concisely here, although I am not an expert on philosophical matters. I am including this......
Today, I am proud to announce that the provisional patent that I have been working on with the DigitalRock and Abaqus teams at Dassault Systemes has officially been filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office! This innovative approach to material homogenization allows for an effective characterization of heterogeneities within materials without losing the computational efficiency of a fully resolved model. Heterogeneities can play a crucial role in many different physical phenomena, such as ......
Given the fact that I am about to publish some papers and (officially) embark on a Ph.D, I figured it was finally time to make a webpage for myself. I have always felt that LinkedIn is a little disingenuine, and anyone who knows me well knows that I wear my heart on my sleeve. So, in an attempt to reconcile these facts and better express myself within at least semi-professional confines, I made this. Further, I decided to make two subsections of the site that go somewhat beyond what I imagine is......
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