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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 2011
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
Additional resources
How to apply to Graduate School in Mathematics
The following manuscripts may be of some general interest.
A survey of quantum groups: background, motivation, and results, from ``Geometric analysis and Lie theory in mathematics and physics'', A. Carey and M. Murray eds., Australian Math. Soc. Lecture Notes Series, 11 Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 20-104.
Artin Groups and Coxeter Groups, (with C. Coleman, R. Corran, J. Crisp, D. Easdown, R. Howlett and D. Jackson). An English translation, with notes, of the paper Artin-gruppen und Coxeter-gruppen Inv. Math. 17 (1972) 245-271, by E. Brieskorn and K. Saito.
Lectures on Chevalley Groups, by Robert Steinberg, Yale University Lecture Notes 1967. Thank you to Robert Steinberg for his permission to release these.
Last updated: April 4, 1935