I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes. --Thoreau, Walden
I will be offering a course (with J. F. Dat) on p-adic representations at the Ecole d'ete on Representations p-adiques des groupes p-adiques in Paris, 7-12 July 2008.
Midwest Number Theory Day(s) will be at UIC March 7 and 8 -- check it out.
I co-organized a meeting on the use of case studies in mathematics education, with Kay Merseth, Shandy Hauk, Sol Friedberg, and Rebecca McGraw in Tucson February 14-16, 2008 at the Institute for Mathematics and Education at the University of Arizona.
I offered a course (with Samit Dasgupta) on the p-adic upper half plane at the 2007 Arizona Winter School in Tucson, March 10-14, 2007.
Learn more about the NSF Funded ASCEND program intended to generate more degrees in STEM disciplines, especially from members of traditionally under-represented groups. I'm Co-PI on the grant, along with Lon Kaufman (PI), Carole Snow, Sharad Laxpati, and Claudia Morrissey. My particular part is to organize the Math Component. Don Wink and Denise Hayman run the program overall.
My mentor,
Steve Galovich, of Carleton and then Lake Forest College, died tragically young last year.
Click here for a current curriculum vita (pdf).
Click here for a publication list and recent papers
Whiskey Before Breakfast, me accompanying myself (don't laugh!)