Bio
Lieutenant Colonel Seiders was commissioned in 2005 as a distinguished graduate of the University of Delaware ROTC program. He completed his pilot training at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas and has been stationed at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. and Creech Air Force Base, NV flying the C-17A Globemaster III, MQ-1B Predator and MQ-9A Reaper.
Most recently, he spent three years as a student of applied mathematics at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. His doctoral dissertation explored an efficient dimension-breaking continuation method of interfacial wave models.
Education
Ph.D., applied mathematics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio (2019)
M.S., mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas (2012)
B.S., mathematics, University of Delaware, Newark, Del. (2005)
Professional Experience
C-17 Instructor Pilot
MQ-1B/MQ-9 Evaluator Pilot
Honors & Awards
Air Medal
Aerial Achievement Medal
Research and Scholarly Interests
Nonlinear Waves
Numerical Analysis
Publications
Akers, Benjamin F. and Seiders, Matthew W., “Numerical Simulations of Overturned Traveling Waves”, Nonlinear Water Waves (accepted)