Christopher Tong, a research statistician, will present a talk, "Low-order models of Rayleigh-Benard convection: Systems of coupled gyrostats," at 4 p.m., Wednesday, October 5, in Room D-108, Umbeck Science Mathematics Center, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The lecture, which will cover Tong's research into the transfer of heat through fluid motion, is free and open to the public.

A graduate of Jacksonville High School, in Jacksonville, Illinois, Tong received his bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics in 1995 at Knox College, and master's and doctoral degrees in statistics and physics at Purdue University. He has been a programmer-analyst at Applied Mathematics, Inc. and, since 2002, a statistician in the Biometrics Research Department at Merck and Company, Inc., in New Jersey.

Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 46 states and 41 nations. Knox's 'Old Main' is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.

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