* Who am I?
I am a professor at the Dept. of Mathematics of
the University of Texas at Austin.
* Contact Info:
My e-mail address is sadun@math.utexas.edu, my
office is in RLM 9.114, and my work phone number is (512)
471-7121. My Fall 2005 office hours are not yet set. I
generally
keep an open door at other times as well. Come by and say hello!
* Preprints and Vita:
You can see my cv, a publication
list (with pointers to available preprints), or just the abstracts.
* Spring 2008 Courses
M427K
M367K
* Fall 2006 Course
M408M
* Not Too
Distant Past Courses:
M408L
S06 Lie
Groups
F'05 M346
Applied Linear Algebra
F'05 M408L Integral
Calculus
Spring '05 M408K Calculus
F'04 M346 Applied Linear
Algebra
F'04 M392C Algebraic Topology
S'04
M362K
Probability
S'04 M382D
Graduate
Topology
F'03 M346 Applied Linear
Algebra
F'03 M408K Calculus
S'03
M340L Linear Algebra
S'03
M328K
Number Theory
F'02 M408D
Calculus
F'02
M375 Mathematical
Modeling for Biologists
S'02 M403K
Business Calculus
S'02
M362K Probability
F '01 M 358K
Statistics
F
'01 M382C
Graduate Topology
S '01
Probability
(M362K)
F'00 Business
Calculus (M403K)
F'00
Applied Linear
Algebra (M346)
* Apprentices, human and otherwise:
At present I have one Ph.D. student, Betsygail
Rand, and an apprentice dragon named Brimstone. He
wants to study tilings, but hasn't yet passed his prelims. If you
want to avoid incineration, it's best not to remind him of this fact.
My most recently graduated Ph.D student is Dorothy
Buck. Her thesis was "The Topology and Geometry of DNA
and DNA-Protein Interactions", and she graduated in May, 2001.
She is an assistant professor in the Division
of Applied Math at Brown
University.
My other recent Ph.D student is Jean Marie
Linhart. She wrote a thesis on "Applications of the Adiabatic
Limit" and graduated in May, 1999. She now works at Stata Corporation.
* Photo gallery
* Politics, religion, and other subjects to
be avoided:
I've written several op-ed columns for the Austin American Statesman:
My first column
was on the disputed 2000 presidential election and ran on December 1,
2001.
Here's one on the electoral college that they didn't use
(written 12/2000)
And one on the
estate tax that they didn't use (written 4/2001)
And a letter to the editor on U.S. policies that appeared on September 30,
2001
And a column on my father's coming to the USA in 1939, on the
freedoms he found here, and how we are allowing those freedoms to
slip. It appeared in the Statesman on Saturday, December 10,
2001.
A column on Israel
and the Palestinians, that appeared on Monday, April 22,
2002. This was in the middle of "Operation Defensive Shield",
when Israel sent military into the West Bank in response to a spate of
terror bombing.
A column on war
powers that appeared in the Statesman on September 25, 2002,
shortly after President Bush asked for authorization to invade
Iraq.
A column on taxes,
that appeared on April 14, 2003.
A column on the Texas pledge of allegiance, that appeared
on Saturday, August 30, 2003. Here is a letter, on the same
subject, that I sent to the principal of my children's elementary
school.
A column on redistricting,
that appeared in August 2004, in the middle of my write-in campaign for
Congress.
I've also written some columns, joint with Rabbi Kerry Baker, for the
Austin Jewish Outlook:
A column on Jewish
education
A column on "post-denominational
Judaism".
A
Generalized Pinwheel Tiling