Cole Gruninger
Department of Mathematics
Fordham University
Bronx, NY
I am a Peter M. Curran Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Fordham University. I work on numerical methods for partial differential equations, with a focus on the immersed boundary method and its applications to fluid–structure interaction, viscoelastic and non-Newtonian fluids. I am also interested in electrochemical modeling and catalysis.
I completed my Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2025, advised by Boyce E. Griffith and M. Gregory Forest. Before that, I earned a B.S. in Chemistry (Honors) and a B.A. in Mathematics, also at UNC, working with Jillian Dempsey.
You can find a list of my publications here and my CV here. Feel free to reach out by email.
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| May 20, 2026 | New preprint with Boyce Griffith on composite B-spline current deposition and interpolation operators for thin-wire FDTD simulations. |
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| Apr 06, 2026 | Gave a talk at the AMCS Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, on orthogonality-preserving regularized delta functions for staggered-grid discretizations. |
| Feb 01, 2026 | Our paper “Composite B-spline regularized delta functions for the immersed boundary method” appeared in the Journal of Computational Physics. |
| Aug 01, 2025 | Defended my Ph.D. in Mathematics at UNC Chapel Hill, advised by Boyce E. Griffith and M. Gregory Forest. |
| Aug 01, 2025 | Started as the Peter M. Curran Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Fordham University. |