{"id":312,"date":"2017-10-17T16:34:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-mscs\/facultystaff\/benson\/"},"modified":"2019-08-27T17:43:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T17:43:37","slug":"benson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/facultystaff\/benson\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Benson&#8217;s research background is in differential geometry and mathematical physics.\u00a0 He is interested in the properties of curve and surface evolutions invariant under a given Lie (or transformation) group.\u00a0 He is also interested in differential equations, difference equations, and differential-difference equations, both ordinary and partial, particularly those arising from physical models and equipped with some symmetry group.\u00a0 He has become recently interested in mathematical modeling, and has begun a collaboration studying pedestrian dynamics using an agent-based modeling approach.\u00a0 He loves teaching, and has worked hard to move away from a predominantly lecture style to a much more active learning approach, with particular interest in inquiry based learning techniques.\u00a0 When he is not working, his wife and three children occupy most of his free time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">BA: Grinnell College, 2003<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">MS: Loyola University Chicago, 2008<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">PhD: University of Minnesota, 2014<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"template":"","class_list":["post-312","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/312\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/mscs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}