Faculty

Dr. Crawley, a Georgetown College professor since 1989, serves as coordinator of the Computer Science and Information Systems programs. His teaching interests include programming languages, compilers, operating systems, computer organization and architecture, and the foundations of programming. Before coming to Georgetown College, Dr. Crawley worked as a programmer/analyst in medical research with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, where he developed software for a variety of applications in cardiology and neurology research.

Dr. Harris has been at Georgetown since 1992. He serves as chair of the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science. His teaching interests include elementary statistics, abstract algebra, mathematical modeling, and the use of computer software in his courses. He is particularly interested in the applications of mathematics and computational power to biology, and wishes to engage students in research projects in these areas.

Dr. Christine Leverenz has been at Georgetown College since 1982. She is professor of mathematics and computer science and is an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Education. Her teaching specialties include calculus, analysis, linear algebra, and mathematics for elementary education. She also prepares students for studying maths at Oxford by giving tutorials in Real Analysis.

Dr. Roinestad began teaching at Georgetown College in 2010. Her current research interests center on fractal geometry. She also hopes to study mathematics education as it relates to undergraduate mathematics education. Dr. Roinestad’s current teaching interests include real and complex analysis, algebra, point-set topology, all levels of calculus, and a desire to work with undergraduates on research projects and to prepare them for the Putnam Exam. Dr. Roinestad is an advisor for the MPC Club and Order of Omega as well as a faculty member of WOVEN. She completed a Project NExT fellowship, a professional development program of the Mathematics Association of America (MAA), and is currently also involved in the Association for Women Mathematicians (AWM) and the Young Mathematicians Network (YMN).

Dr. Thorne has been teaching a variety of computer science and math courses including a cross-listed Introduction to Numerical Methods at Georgetown College since the Fall of 2005. Prior to that, he had a post-doc position working on lattice Boltzmann methods with applications to groundwater hydrogeology in the Earth Sciences Department at Florida International University. He contributed to the development of a recent new interdisciplinary major in Computational Sciences at GC. In Spring 2010, he taught the inaugural offering of a course on High Performance Computing. Dr. Thorne is on the advisory board of a four-year Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant that the science division received in 2008 which will provide, among other things, many opportunities for student research with faculty mentors here and with mentors at other institutions in academia, government and industry. During 2011-2012, he oversaw the construction of a small computational sciences computer lab (with HHMI and Brown grant funds) designed to be used by science division students and faculty involved in computational sciences projects and research.