Brown University     Providence, RI, USA

Ph.D. Candidate in the Division of Applied Mathematics   Entered August 2022

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Mara Freilich 

Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA

B.S. Honors in Mathematics       September 2018 - June 2022

Undergraduate Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Luk

National Defense Engineering Graduate Fellowship, United States Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research | 2024 - 2027

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Summer 2024

Seitz, L. R. and Wingate, B. A. (2025) Quasi-geostrophic limiting dynamics and energetics of the LANS-α model. In preparation. 

Seitz, L. R., Freilich, M. A., and Pizzo, N. (2025, August). The role of Lagrangian drift in the generation of surface waves by wind. Submitted for publication. arxiv preprint arxiv:2508.02580.

Seitz, L. R. and Freilich, M. A. Seitz, L. R. (2025). Joint effects of submesoscale lateral dispersion and biological reactions on biogeochemical flux. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(7), e2024GL114112.

Seitz, L. R., Régibeau-Rockett, L.,  Dey, I., and O'Neill, M. E (2023). The outflow interactions between binary tropical cyclones. eartharxiv preprint

• "Energetics of the LANS-α turbulence closure model in the QG limit." Ocean Transport and Eddy Energy CPT Meeting, New York University. August 2025. (Talk)

• "Joint effects of submesoscale lateral dispersion and biological reactions on biogeochemical flux." AGU Fall Meeting. December 2024. (Poster presentation)

• "Joint effects of submesoscale lateral dispersion and biological reactions on biogeochemical flux." SMODE Science Team Meeting, NASA. October 2024. (Poster presentation)

• "The slow manifold: what is it?" Division of Applied Mathematics Graduate Seminar, Brown University. October 2024. (Talk)

• "The fast quasi-geostrophic limit of the LANS-α equations." Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. August 2024. (Talk)

• "Outflow interactions between binary tropical cyclones." 35th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, American Meteorological Society. May 2022. (Talk)

• Directed Reading Program mentor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Spring 2025 

• Teaching Assistant for APMA 1930P, Mathematics of Climate, Brown University, Spring 2024

• Teaching Assistant and Recitation Instructor for APMA 1650, Operations Research, Brown University, Fall 2023

• Math course grader for partial differential equations (MATH 131P), combinatorics (MATH 108, twice) and calculus at Stanford

• Topics in mathematics, including: asymptotic methods, theory of PDEs, theory of ODEs / dynamical systems, theory of numerical PDEs, differential geometry, theoretical machine learning

• Topics in fluid dynamics, including: Lagrangian fluid dynamics, generalized quasi-geostrophy, shear instabilities, turbulence and turbulence closure methods, Navier-Stokes with reaction terms (e.g., biological)

• Programming (primarily in Python, with experience in other languages): direct numerical simulations for fluid dynamics (particularly using spectral methods), implementation of finite element and finite difference methods, other numerical solutions for systems of PDEs and ODEs, implementation of machine learning models, data analysis, etc.