{"id":96925,"date":"2015-09-23T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=96925"},"modified":"2016-07-01T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:13:50","slug":"bates-welcomes-new-faculty-henry-boateng-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2015\/09\/23\/bates-welcomes-new-faculty-henry-boateng-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates welcomes new faculty: Henry Boateng, mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Henry Boateng joined the Bates faculty in August 2015 as an assistant professor of mathematics. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

If you wanted a computer model that would precisely simulate the chemical behavior of a substance \u2014 say, coffee \u2014 you could have it.<\/p>\n

But a model that performed a discrete calculation for every molecular change in even a microscopic amount of coffee would take serious computing power, explains Henry Boateng, who joined Bates’ mathematics faculty in August as an assistant professor.<\/p>\n

And simulating the chemical activity in a whole cup of joe would be out of the question. “This is on the order of 1023<\/sup> atoms,” says Boateng, pointing to a cup of coffee during a conversation in the Den. “And we can\u2019t simulate that on a computer,” at least not without streamlining the process somehow.<\/p>\n

But that streamlining is just what Boateng does.<\/p>\n

A computational scientist, he designs algorithms, or sequences of computer operations, that dramatically speed up computer simulations and enable them to model large systems. With a doctorate in applied and interdisciplinary mathematics (University of Michigan, 2010), Boateng works on simulations in chemical engineering and materials science.<\/p>\n

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Meet other tenure-track faculty members new to Bates in fall 2015:<\/em><\/p>\n