Cal Poly Experts Directory - Mathematics
Algebraic Geometry • Applied Mathematics • General Mathematics • Non-Standard Analysis • Statistics
Algebraic Geometry
Goro Kato, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics
(805) 756-1682 / (805) 756-2206 e-mail: gkato@calpoly.edu
Editor of Mathematical Tracts from Japan. Co-author of Fundamentals of Microlocal Analysis (1996), other graduate textbooks, and articles. Member, Association of Members for the Institute for Advanced Study.
Areas of expertise:
* p-adic cohomology theory
* algebraic analysis--theory of D-modules
* homological algebra--cohomology of sheaves
* Weil Zeta function
* Weierstrass family in characteristic p>o
* microlocal analysis
Applied Mathematics
Jerome R. Breitenbach, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical Engineering
(805) 756-5710/2781 e-mail: jbreiten@calpoly.edu
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Audio Engineering Society.
Areas of expertise:
* information theory
* applied mathematics
General Mathematics
Kent E. Morrison, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Mathematics
(805) 756-2206 e-mail: kmorriso@calpoly.edu
Member, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Author of Lectures on Partial Differential Equations (textbook) and several research articles in mathematics.
Areas of expertise:
* linear algebra
* differential geometry
* probability
* applied mathematics
* computers and mathematics education
* electronic publishing in mathematics and related fields
Non-Standard Analysis
Todor Todorov, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Mathematics
(805) 756-1689/2206 e-mail: ttodorov@calpoly.edu
Author of numerous papers on such topics as coefficients in an algebra of generalized functions, partial differential equations with smooth coefficients, monads and realcompactness, nonstandard and standard compactifications of ordered topological spaces, Schwartz distributions, a nonstandard delta function, non-standard analysis, and applications of non-standard Hilbert space to quantum mechanics.
Areas of expertise:
* non-standard analysis - both the general theory and applications
* functional analysis - Schwartz theory of distributions and non-linear theory of generalized functions
* point-set topology - ordered topological spaces
* foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory (matrix quantum mechanics)
John M. Alongi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
(805) 756-2197 email: jalongi@calpoly.edu
Member, American mathematical Society. Member Mathematical Assocation of Amercia. Co-author of Recurrence and Topoloty. Published articles on mathematics and matematics pedagogy.
Areas of expertise:
* dynamical systems
* topology
* ordinary differntial equations
Statistics
Steven Rein
Professor of Statistics
(805) 756-2941
srein@calpoly.edu
Personal Web page: click here
Areas of expertise
* correlation and regression
* errors in statistics sampling