Joe Fields

Courses (Fall 2008)

• MAT 103 -- Math for the Liberal Arts
• MAT 139 -- Short Course in Calculus for the Social Sciences
• MAT 250 -- Foundations of Mathematics

Office:

EN D118 (Engleman Hall, D-wing)

Phone:

392-6519

Office hours:

Monday: 11:10 AM -- 12:00 Noon and 2:00 PM -- 3:15 PM
Tuesday: 1:50 -- 3:05 PM
Wednesday: 11:10 AM -- 12:00 Noon and 2:00 PM -- 3:15 PM
Thursday: 1:50 -- 3:05 PM
Friday: 11:10 AM -- 12:00 Noon
(and by appointment)

I am an associate professor in the  Mathematics Department  at Southern Connecticut State University.

I am the previous chairperson of the Undergraduate Curriculum Forum, the new chair is Dr. Deborah Weiss.

I received my PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
My areas of research are in the theory of Error-Correcting Codes, and Combinatorics.
My advisor was Vera Pless.

Here are some items on which I've been working:

• Calendars for 2008 on a rhombic dodecahedron and a pair of cubes.
• Version 4.2 of HTMX (a tool that helps you include equations in web documents) is ready.
• I am converting an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) car to a Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV). Find out more at the EV discussion list.
• A page using VRML models to show that the group of symmetries of the dodecahedron is A₅.
• In order to enhance my performance at Pub Trivia, I created a bunch of blank maps blank maps of the countries of the world. These are image maps with links to labelled maps and flags (courtesy of the CIA's World Factbook) for the countries. I also wrote a CGI script called the Flag quiz that helps one to learn the flags of the world.
• My presentation at the 16th annual CSU Academic Computing Conference.
• I'm the Puzzle Editor for SCSU's Math Department Alumni Newsletter.
• DRAFT of "Decoding the Golay code by hand", an on-line math paper.
• Boy's Surface
• A Small Puzzle
• Animations!!!
• A dictionary of combinatorics.
• My Cat-tree/sculpture hobby.
• My hotlist.