Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle - Napoleon Hill
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you — B. B. King
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known - Carl Sagan
Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. -Josh Homme
If you want to feel stupid, do some math. - Dr. Thomas Hull
Samuel Ayers McLaren
I am a 5th year Doctoral student in the Applied Mathematics GIDP at the University of Arizona with a focus in Optics. I am an motivated mathematical modeler, an avid adventurer, and a lifelong learner.
3D Rendering of a VECSEL cavity gain structure
My dissertation research expands on the Maxwell Semiconductor Bloch Equations model of a laser cavity which couples electromagnetic beam propagation to first principles quantum mechanics gain media descriptions through a coupled system of thousands of nonlinear ODEs.
Pure mathematics is, in its own way, the poetry of logical ideas.
The Earth has music, for those who listen
