About me:

I'm working on my PhD in math. I am interested in analysis, for the most part. Algebra has been growning on me, but mostly I'm down with functional analysis, harmonic analysis, and PDEs.

I graduated from Connecticut College in 2005 with majors in math and physics. I am very glad to have studied liberal arts. I am passionate about mathematics, and I have numerous other interests. I love history and languages. Philosophy can be interesting. I also enjoy poetry, art and dance. I enjoy weightlifting, rowing, and pretty much any variation of wrestling, most especially grappling, jiu-jitsu, ground fighting, or whatever else you'd like to call it. I guess I'm a pretty big guy - my friend Ivo once said I was wasting my potential - he suggested that in an older era I would be a serf of some wealthy baron, digging holes. Suffice it to say I'm more than happy to live in the luxury of modern times. I grew up in Maine,and my grandfather uses words like twas and tweren't. My grandparents were all farmers. My extended family is mostly craftsmen. My great-uncle is a retired professional blacksmith, if you can believe it. I lived on a farm for a few years - my father was also a farmer for many years before I was born - but I spent most of my life on the coast of Maine in Portland. Ithaca is pretty nice, but I miss the ocean --- every time I go home and I smell it for the first time, it's like reconnecting with an old friend.

Publications:

  1. Ammirati, T.F., M. N. Monce, D. Tadesse, P. M. Luthy, N. Alvarado (2005), Absolute photon cross sections for Balmer lines from proton-SO2 collisions, J. of Geophys. Res., 110, A04214, doi:10.1029/2003JA010359
  2. Hammock, Frances; Luthy, Peter; Meadows, Alexander; and Whitman, Philip, "Tornado solutions for semilinear elliptic equations in R2: applications," Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., vol.135, pp. 1411-1417, 2007.
  3. Exploring Card Shuffling in Adventures in Everyday Mathematics. To appear, Princeton University Press.

Other work:

Translation of V. Strassen, Asymptotische Abschaezungen in Shannons Informationstheorie. Trans. Third Prague Conf. Information Theory, Statist. Decision Functions, Random Processes (Liblice, 1962) pp. 689--723 Publ. House Czech. Acad. Sci., Prague, 1964 (German).