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Research

Papers

  1. (With S. Vijay) Dreidel lasts O(n^{2}) spins, Advances in Applied Mathematics 36 (2006), 85--94.
  2. New perspectives on exponentiated derivations, the formal Taylor theorem, and Fa`a di Bruno's formula in: Proceedings of the Conference on Vertex Operator Algebras, Illinois State University, (2008) ed. by Maarten Bergvelt, Gaywalee Yamskulna, and Wenhua Zhao, Contemporary Math. 497 , Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, (2009), 185--198; arXiv:0903.3391.
  3. On generalizing the formal Taylor theorem and some associated combinatorics, to appear.
  4. Intertwining substitutions and the formal Taylor theorem, to appear.
  5. Formal calculus and umbral calculus, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 17(1) (2010), #R95; arXiv:0912.0961.
  6. On replacement axioms for the Jacobi identity for vertex algebras and their modules, Journal of Pure and Applied Math. , 214 (2010), 1740--1758; arXiv:0903.3216.
  7. On a structured class of axioms equivalent to the Jacobi identity for vertex algebras and their modules, to appear.
  8. Embedding of certain vertex algebras without vacuum into vertex algebras, to appear.

Teaching

Calculus III (265)

Syllabus (PDF)

Basic Linear Algebra (128)

Syllabus (PDF)

Calculus I

Handout 1(PDF)

Handout 2(PDF)

Handout 3(PDF)

Handout 4(PDF)

Handout 5(PDF)

Final Review (PDF)