Kyle Schalm

kschalm@math.utexas.edu

Where You Will Not Find Me Anymore (But My Legacy Lingers Like The Fart That Follows You Around For A Surprisingly Long Time)

office: RLM 12.120 circa 2001 circa 2005
As you can see, things degenerated significantly under my reign.
I am gone now, but still feel free to drop by sometime and check out the comics on the door, or the tea museum inside! Or just bug Zac until he punches you!

About Me

i like to take pictures of stuff. (but i sure as hell didn't take this ridiculously awesome picture!) someday this will be a link to some of my photos.

From 2001-2007 I was a graduate student in number theory at UT Austin.

Basic Factsheet about Kyle

My mathematical interests include:

Distribution of Prime Numbers, twin prime problem
Diophantine Equations, such as Fermat's Last Theorem
Factorization. RSA Challenge
Discrete Geometry
Algorithms
Chaos

That's not to say I do research in all these areas; I just find them interesting.

In computer science -

compilers and languages, esp. functional
parallel programming
scientific simulation
game design (and playing)
AI, especially as relates to games and learning
information theory, compression

In the intersection of the two categories above, I have recently developed a deep interest in theorem proving systems and computer algebra systems. Other interests -

I've thought of combining these interests; for example, writing computer programs to do math, play chess, or create music; however, these things take copious amounts of time, which I assume I'll have lots of later but have very little of right now.

(Semi-)Professional Activities

My talk at SAGE Days 2006 (and pics)
Which partial sums of the Taylor Series for e are Convergents to e? by Jonathan Sondow and myself

Old Teaching Stuff (not interesting)

Fall 2006 - Instructor, M305G (Precalculus)
Spring 2006 - M302 with Corinne Irwin and M302 with Yongsam Kim
Fall 2005 - some kind of calculus with Bart Goddard and some more with Gary Berg
Spring 2005 - not teaching now. see my schedule
Fall 2004 - M408L
Spring 2004 - M408D
Fall 2003 - probably grading M362K (probability) for Klaus Bichteler and Martha Smith
Spring 2003 - M408K
Fall 2002 - M408D
Spring 2002 - M408D
Fall 2001 - M408C

Friends

Random Crap Goes Here

The Amazing Number 23
Some artwork
foto grafs