Max Mercer

Hello! My name is Max Mercer and I am a graduate student of Applied Mathematics. I love to help others and I believe that kindness is the key to happiness. At the age of 18, I graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Applied Mathematics from ASU, and continued my studies in the Ph.D. program. I earned a Master's degree after passing the comprehensive exam with a score of 100%. The subjects tested on the exam were APM 526: Advanced Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic and Parabolic PDEs taught by Dr. Carl Gardner (A delightful man with even more delightful ideas) and APM 541: Stochastic Modeling in Biology taught by Dr. Nicolas Lanchier (who kindly became my Ph.D advisor).

I've been a teaching assistant at ASU in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences since the Fall of 2021, where I have had the opportunity to work with wonderful students learning calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, discrete math, stochastic methods, neural networks and machine learning, scientific computing, and more.

My current research interests include the long-term behavior of spatially-explicit epidemiological and sociological models, the mathematics of musical composition, the optimization of iterative methods, text clustering in linguistics, and the creation of models for real-life dynamical systems. 

I am so grateful to my advisor, Dr. Nicolas Lanchier, who has helped me learn everything I know in Interacting Particle Systems, and Ms. Krepper, who generously sponsored my Ph.D. research with an ARCS Foundation.

Thank you for visiting my page and I hope that you will have a great day!