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Arun Ram Department of Mathematics and Statistics |
Research
My research is in Combinatorial representation theory. H. Barcelo and I have written a survey article about this field, its main questions and the main results:Combinatorial representation theory , (with H. Barcelo), which appeared in the special volume in conjunction with the special year 1996-1997 in Combinatorics at MSRI in Berkeley: New perspectives in algebraic combinatorics (Berkeley, CA, 1996--97), 23--90, Math. Sci. Res. Inst. Publ., 38 , Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1999.
Teaching: Second Semester 2009
620-295
Real Analysis with applications
Lecture Monday 12:00pm - 1:00pm Old Geology-Theatre 1
Lecture Tuesday 10:00am - 11:00am Old Geology-Theatre 1
Lecture Thursday 10:00am - 11:00am Old Geology-Theatre 1
Practical Monday 1:00pm - 2:00pm Richard Berry-G03
Practical Monday 2:15pm - 3:15pm Richard Berry-G03
Practical Tuesday 9:00am - 10:00am Richard Berry-G03
Practical Tuesday 11:00am - 12:00pm Richard Berry-G03
Practical Wednesday 9:00am - 10:00am Richard Berry-G03
Practical Wednesday 10:00am - 11:00am Richard Berry-G03
Laboratory Wednesday 1:00pm - 2:00pm Richard Berry-G70 [Wilson Laboratory]
Laboratory Thursday 9:00am - 10:00am Richard Berry-G70 [Wilson Laboratory]
Laboratory Thursday 12:00pm - 1:00pm Richard Berry-G70 [Wilson Laboratory]
Some reasons to go into math
- from forbes.com 2009: "Our admittedly unscientific study of the 657 self-made billionaires we counted in February for our list of the World's Billionaires yielded some interesting results. First, a significant percentage of billionaires had parents with a high aptitude for math. The ability to crunch numbers is crucial to becoming a billionaire"
- this quote from Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google, in an address to the 2008 Almaden Institute:
“I was giving some career advice to some students a few months ago, and I said: ‘Look, the critical thing to do is to be complementary: have a scarce talent, a scarce resource, that’s complementary to something that's ubiquitous and cheap. … What's getting ubiquitous and cheap? Data! What’s scarce and expensive? The talent to be able to analyse that data and make it tell its story. So it’s the analytic capability, which I think does involve computers, but ultimately involves the individual’s understanding and talent and capability, that is the dream job of the next decade.’
- Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs -- Mathematicians Land Top Spot in New Ranking of Best and Worst Occupations in the U.S.A: See http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123119236117055127.html