 Anthony Kearsley
Research
Mathematician
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
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 B.A. -
Mathematics, University of Maryland
M.S. -
Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
Ph.D. -
Computation and Applied Mathematics, Rice University |
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Research
Mathematician, providing mathematical research support to
scientists. |
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Tony believes each
scientific discipline has its own language and exposure to
different areas enables the applied mathematician to communicate
with scientist working in other disciplines. |
 
"I ended up not doing very well in high school and in fact, barely getting
a high school diploma and had no interest at all in anything academic. I
spent a year and a half traveling around Europe with a backpack and real
sort of cerebral-free activities, and then ended up enrolling at the
community college. I got a job as a custodian, as a matter of fact, and
started taking courses at night. There was a professor there who convinced
me to enroll at the -- in the electrical engineering program at The
University of Maryland. So I started there. Sort of floated around in
engineering for a while and it was during that time that I was hired here
as a college student. And so I came as a summer intern here and started
writing computer programs for the -- what was then, the Applied and
Computational Math Division. So that's sort of where it started. After
working the summer here, I went in and changed my major to mathematics and
from there it was math all the way."
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