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Skyler Simmons

Faculty Member

Skyler Simmons

Biography

PhD: Brigham Young University 2015

Dissertation: Analysis of Multiple Collision-Based Periodic Orbits in Dimension Higher than One

Research interests: Dynamical Systems, Newtonian n-Body Problems, Recreational Mathematics

Other interests: Piano, computer programming, chess, go, 3D printing, photography

Education

PhD, Brigham Young University, 2015

Major: Mathematics

MS, Brigham Young University, 2012

Major: Mathematics

BS, Brigham Young University, 2009

Major: Mathematics

Teaching

MATH 1210

Calculus I QL, Spring 2025

MATH 2280

Ordinary Differential Equations, Spring 2025

MATH 3400

Partial Differential Equations, Spring 2025

Presentations

Simmons, Skyler (Presenter Only), 2025 MAA Intermountain Section Meeting, "Shut the Box - An Undergraduate Research Project", MAA (Mathematical Association of America), Pocatello ID. (March 15, 2025)
Simmons, Skyler (Presenter Only), UVU Physics Department Seminar, "Hamiltonian Dynamics and Planetary Motion", UVU. (January 28, 2025)
Simmons, Skyler , UVU Topology Seminar, "What is Topology?", UVU, UVU. (September 12, 2024)
Simmons, Skyler , Utah Dynamics Mini-Workshop, "Periodic Collision-based Orbits in the Newtonian n-Body Problem", University of Utah & Brigham Young University, BYU. (March 23, 2024)
Simmons, Skyler , UVU Mathematics Department Colloquium, "Shut the Box ‐ An Undergraduate Research Opportunity in Recreational Mathematics", UVU Mathematics Department. (September 29, 2023)
Simmons, Skyler , AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, "A Pair of Collision-Based Periodic Orbits in Three Dimensions", AIMS (American Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Wilmington NC. (June, 2023)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Simmons, Skyler , (2023) "A new collision-based periodic orbit in the three-dimensional eight-body problem" (Issue: 6, vol. 134). Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy.
Simmons, Skyler , "The octahedral collision-based periodic orbit in the three-dimensional six-body problem" . Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy.
Simmons, Skyler , (2021) "Stability of Broucke’s Isosceles Orbit" (Issue: 8, vol. 41). Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems A. https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2021015
Bakker, Lennard , Simmons, Skyler , (2015) "Stability of the rhomboidal symmetric-mass orbit" (Issue: 1, vol. 35). Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2015.35.1