Joe Fields
Spring 2009
- I am on sabbatical leave this semester.
- Office:
- EN D118 (Engleman Hall, D-wing)
- Phone:
- 392-6519
- Office hours:
- None for Spring 2009
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
A picture
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:
- My text, A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Mathematics.
- The slides for my expository talk on
Coding theory.
- The split weight enumerator of the Golay code, partitioned with
respect to the supports of two disjoint minimum weight vectors,
as a VRML model.
- Calendar for
2009
on a rhombic dodecahedron. See here for assembly instructions.
- 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
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.
