Paul Blanchard

Paul Blanchard is a professor of mathematics at Boston University. He grew up in Sutton, Massachusetts, USA, spent his undergraduate years at Brown University, and received his Ph.D. from Yale University. He has taught mathematics for more than thirty years, mostly at Boston University. His main area of mathematical research is complex analytic dynamical systems and the related point sets—Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He is the author of Calculus, 3e with Dennis Berkey. For many of the last twenty years, his efforts have focused on modernizing the traditional sophomore-level differential equations course. That effort has resulted in numerous workshops and minicourses. He has also authored five editions of Differential Equations with Robert L. Devaney and Glen R. Hall.

Kyle Vigil

Kyle Vigil is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics at Boston University. His research involves high numerical aperture optical systems and sub-wavelength resolution microscopy. Kyle received a Master of Arts degree in Physics from Boston University and Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Texas A&M University. While at Boston University he has been a teaching assistant for several Physics and Mathematics courses.

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