Marshall Hampton's Homepage

"I have traveled a good deal in Concord" -Thoreau

Office: Solon Campus Center (SCC) 172

Email: mhampton at d.umn.edu

Mailing address:: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Minnesota Duluth
Solon Campus Center 140
1117 University Drive
Duluth, MN 55812-3000

Courses:

Spring 2008: (Preliminary, subject to change!)
Math 5327, Advanced Linear Algebra.
Math 5233, Mathematical Foundations of Bioinformatics

Summer 2008: Math 3298, Multivariable Calculus

My academic family tree

CV I will add links to some of my papers eventually. Feel free to email me a request for one until then.

Research:

Currently I am split between two very different arenas:
(1) using computational algebra and geometry to study special solutions (usually relative equilibria) of the n-body and n-vortex problem,
and
(2) mathematical biology of gene regulation, particularly that involved in mammalian hibernation with the research group of Matthew Andrews. Recently I have become interested in cardiovascular modeling in the context of hibernation.

I have begun using the free, open-source program/environment SAGE in all of my work; I encourage you to try it and contribute to it if you can.

Newton polytopes for the restricted four-body problem
Lagrange central configuration animation
Four body collinear central configuration, on elliptical orbits of eccentricity .8 (masses are 1,2,3,4).