Dr. Jeffrey Chasnov received his BA from UC Berkeley in 1983, and his PhD from Columbia University in 1990. He had postdoctoral appointments at NASA, Stanford University, and the Université Joseph Fourier before expatriating to Hong Kong in 1993, where he is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Jeff has published over 30 research articles on fluid turbulence, population genetics, and C. elegans biology, and is an experienced lecturer in applied mathematics. One of his favorite courses is Introduction to Differential Equations.