Caleb Emmons Assistant Professor of Mathematics Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Pacific University 2043 College Way Forest Grove, Oregon 97116 Office: Price 208 Office Hours: 11-noon MW, 1-3pm Th, and by appointment Telephone: (503)352-1497 Email: emmons@pacificu.edu

.: TEACHING :.
Course Websites:
Computational Linear Algebra (Math 206) :: Discrete Mathematics (Math 240) :: Number Theory (Math 360)

Schedule for Spring 2008:

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
10:00am	Discrete Mathematics		Discrete Mathematics		Discrete Mathematics
10:30am
11:00am	Office Hours Price 208		Office Hours Price 208	University Meetings	Research
11:30am
noon
12:30pm
1:00pm	Number Theory		Number Theory	Office Hours Price 208	Number Theory
1:30pm
2:00pm	Computational Linear Algebra		Computational Linear Algebra		Computational Linear Algebra
2:30pm
3:00pm
3:30pm

Activities:
Math Club Ad Interim Pro Tempore Gratis Advisor
Phi Eta Sigma Pacific University Chapter Advisor
W. L. Putnam Mathematical Competition Gaffer (Pacific-specific website hopefully coming soon)

Past Courses
Fall 2007: Calculus I (Math 226) :: Mathematical Probability (Math 316)
Spring 2007: Modern Topics in Mathematics (Math 165) :: Linear Algebra (Math 306)
Fall 2006: Calculus I (Math 226) :: Abstract Algebra (Math 402)

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—“I want to build a calculus of words,” I whispered conspiratorially.

—“You mean that stuff that gets stuck to your teeth?”

Published math poems:
• S_{|{e,s,t,i,n,a}|} appeared in the Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol 29, Number 1, Winter 2007.
• Dearest Blaise appeared in Mathematics Magazine, October 2007.

Tired of writing poems one-at-a-time, I recently decided to write all poems.

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.: EDUCATION & RESEARCH :.
Ph.D., Mathematics, June 2006, University of California, San Diego.
M.A., Mathematics, June 2002, University of California, San Diego.
B.S., Mathematics, June 2000, University of California, Davis. Minor in English.

I am a 2006-07 Project NExT Fellow (• Sepia Dot). Here is a photo of us in Knoxville, TN.

My research work is primarily in algebraic number theory. My doctoral dissertation explored the intersection of algebraic and analytic number theory (from a very algebraic point of view) that occurs in Stark's conjectures and their extensions à la Rubin, Gross and Popescu, special values of L-functions, the structure of unit groups and class field theory. I have always been interested in primes and very basic arithmetic questions. We should discuss a^{ln b} as an alternative to a^b.

Here is a link to my dissertation: Higher Order Integral Stark-type Conjectures

Here are some slides in pdf format from talks I have given:
• EureQa! an introduction to the p-adics: UCSD Food for Thought Seminar, April 20, 2006.
• Higher order Stark-type conjectures: AMS/MAA Joint Meeting, Special Session on Field Extensions and Algorithms, San Antonio TX, January 14, 2006.
• Values of Artin L-functions at s=0 and Stark's conjectures: UCSD Graduate Student Research Seminar, November 30, 2005.

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Last Modified: April 4, 2008.