Professor and Chair

Contact

Zoom/live office hours for Spring 2024 (through May 10): Monday 9-10:30 and Thursday 11:30-1*. Please drop by FO3-116 or email me a time and I'll send you the Zoom ID.
*Exception: On the third Thursday of each month, I have a meeting with Faculty Affairs at noon, so I have to leave office hours a little before that.

• Announcements for students (jobs, internships, conferences, etc.)
• Course equivalencies
• Public math videos on Educator.com: Trigonometry, Differential Equations, Calculus II, Probability

Research

• Möbius polynomials
• Markov chains for collaboration, with Robert Mena
• Bilinear forms on Frobenius algebras
• Using artificial intelligence for model selection, with Darin Goldstein and Binh Yang
• Nakayama automorphisms of Frobenius algebras
• Unit regular elements in corner rings, with T.Y. Lam
• Southern California Algebra Conference
• Juggling articles:
  • My big list of patterns
  • My creations: Long Beach Popcorn (English and French), Scratch Your Head (English and French, animations), 7 Club Doubles (English and French)
  • Stealing (credit to Aidan Burns and the German takeout artists): Bounceabout, Chopabout, Scrambled V, Scrambled 3V.
  • Siteswap fractals
• Java programs: Pascal's Triangle, Elliptic curve calculator
• Journals: MathSciNet, arXiv, JSTOR, Beach library