Amanda Crawford

Graduate Student

University of Colorado at Boulder

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Fall 2011 - current: Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMO)
Advisors: Andreas Becker, CU Boulder - Physics and Agnieszka Jaron-Becker, CU Boulder - Physics
Description: theoretical analysis and numerical simulation of the interaction of atoms and molecules with intense laser pulses on an ultrafast timescale

Summer 2011: Signals Analysis

Summer 2010: Advanced Statistics
Advisor: Isabel Beichl, NIST-Gaithersburg
Description: (1) comparing the efficiency of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods and Sequential Importance Sampling (SIS) techniques in approximating the number of topological sorts for an arbitrary directed acyclic graph and (2) improving existing MCMC algorithms for such approximations

Spring 2010: MCMC Methods
Advisor: Jem Corcoran, CU Boulder - Applied Math
Description: detecting heavy tails in data

last updated: January 18, 2012