Members of the
Mathematics Department
Saint Michael's College
Winooski Park
Colchester, Vermont USA 05439
Here are the members of the Mathematics Department at Saint Michael's College.
Permanent Faculty.
We have five members of the permanent faculty.
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George Ashline, Assistant Professor
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- Background.
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame
- Mathematical interest.
Complex Analysis
- Home page.
- Personal.
I am originally from upstate New York and grew up in a town adjacent to
Lake Champlain.
I enjoy this part of the country and its change of seasons.
As an undergraduate, I majored in math and got my first
exposure to complex analysis which I really liked.
After completing graduate school,
I taught for a year at Northeast Missouri State University.
I have always liked to help others understand mathematics.
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Jo Ellis-Monaghan, Assistant Professor
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- Background.
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
- Mathematical interest.
Graph Theory
- Home page.
- Personal.
I have an undergraduate degree in studio art (painting and ceramics).
I started doing math to give myself a break from all that intensive
creative work.
Then I discovered that doing mathematical research is also a very
creative process, and is even in some ways a visual art.
OK, so no one is
going to hang my most recent paper in a frame in their living room,
but imagining mathematical structures is very similar to the
artistic vision
that precedes constructing an art object.
I still paint and make pots, but
mostly to give myself a break from all the intensive creative work
of doing mathematics.
I grew up on an island in Alaska, and can gut and gill a
salmon in under fifteen seconds.
I still live on an island, and grow lots
of fruits and vegetables.
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Jim Hefferon, Associate Professor and Department Chair
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- Background.
Ph.D. University of Connecticut
- Mathematical interest.
Logic
- Home page.
- Personal.
I grew up in Connecticut, in Ridgefield.
Some of my summers in college were spent working at Perkin-Elmer in
Danbury, in part on the Hubble Space Telescope
(I never touched the mirror, I swear!).
After going to UConn for much too long,
I taught at Union College in Schenectady for three years
and then I had a year
at the Groton branch of UConn and in industry,
working on programs for submarines.
I came to St. Mike's in 1990.
My sub-speciality in Logic is in the mathematical theory of
computation,
the study of what computers can and cannot do.
Lately, though, my main occupation is that I spend much too much
time hacking around with Linux.
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Sue Kadas, Professor
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- Background.
Ph.D. Rutgers University
- Mathematical interest.
Differential Equations
- Home page.
- Personal.
I really enjoy seeing how various themes and ideas come up over
and over again in different mathematical situations,
and I like applications---seeing how
mathematics can be used to describe many different real life processes.
I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on some differential equations that describe
how patterns can form in biological and chemical systems.
I taught for five years at UVM before coming to St. Mike's in 1985.
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Lloyd Simons,
Associate Professor
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- Background.
Ph.D. McGill University
- Mathematical interest.
Number Theory
- Home page.
- Personal.
After discovering as a physics major that I didn't like doing
error analysis of my labs, I switched to mathematics (where the
concept of ``acceptable error'' is unknown).
I took a brief
couple of years between my B.Sc. and graduate school to see a
bit of the world and develop a taste for international cuisine.
While completing my Ph.D. thesis, I began teaching full time
at the University of Vermont as a visiting lecturer.
Though I'm
not a big fan of November and April in Vermont, the other ten months
in Vermont convinced me to settle here, and I came to St. Michael's
College in 1988.
- On sabattical in 2003-2004.
We have some faculty members that are not permanent (e.g., adjunct).
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Jane Kay, Lecturer
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- Background.
M.S., University of Vermont
- Mathematical interest.
Undergraduate education.
- Home page.
Not available.
- Personal.
Not available.
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Denise Mulry, Lecturer
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- Background.
M.S.
- Mathematical interest.
Undergraduate education.
- Home page.
Not available.
- Personal.
Not available.
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L O'Donovan, Lecturer
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- Background.
- Mathematical interest.
Undergraduate education.
- Home page.
Not available.
- Personal.
Not available.
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K Stone, Lecturer
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- Background.
M.S., University of Vermont
- Mathematical interest.
Undergraduate education.
- Home page.
Not available.
- Personal.
Not available.
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Colchester, VT USA 05439
This page was last revised on 2003-Aug-21.