Home Page for W. D. Joyner

Prof. W. D. Joyner's Homepage

Mathematical interests: Groups, representation theory, error-correcting codes, Harmonic analysis, the Langlands philosophy, GAP, and SAGE.

Research

Papers
Books
GUAVA - an error-correcting codes GAP package
Some Sage mirrors: sage@scipy, sage@Sydney, sage@sf,

Mathematics Department colloquium talks
Free GAP programs, including the toric package
Free MAGMA programs I've written, including the "toric" programs
some free SAGE stuff I've written.

Teaching

Course webpages
Student theses/papers:
Trident: Stephen McMath
Bowman: Sarah Catalano
Honors: Timothy Brock 2006, Greg Coy 2006, Gordon McDonald 2006,
Wayne Irons 2005, Clifton Lennon 2005, Jason McGowan 2005,
Aron Foster 2004, Justin Montague 1999, Ann Luers (now Anne Casey) 1997
Have fun playing mathematical blackjack using Steiner systems (written with Ann Luers)
Coryanne Rickwalt's term project The fundamental theorem of the megaminx
Solve puzzles using Gray codes using a MAPLE package (written with Jim McShea)
Harvey Mudd's math fun facts and the MathSite.

codes and crypto teaching page
A graph-theoretical introduction to Lie algebra representations
Real world applications of representation theory
USNA schedule
Free maple programs I've written.
Sage worksheets for teaching.
Rubik's cube course notes/links:
Rubik's cube-like puzzles

1997 Rubik's cube contest results

Some mathematical links:

Some fun links:

USNA Chess club
Chess problem by K. Fabel
(white to play and mate in 182 moves)
mathematics and chess page
Math atlas
, , , , opensource math.
Latex help, Latex tutorial
philosophy of mathematics
Some mathematical relatives

email: 
wdj@usna.edu
phone: 
(410) 293-6738
snail mail address:         

Mathematics Department
Chauvenet Hall
U. S. Naval Academy
572C Holloway Road
Annapolis, MD 21402
       USA

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