Interests

Combinatorics, geometry

Performance modeling of computer systems

Mathematics for teachers and for lay audiences

Some Links

• CV
• Math Department Home Page
• CS Department Home Page
• UMass Boston Home Page
• Java Outside In
• Elementary Number Theory: an Algebraic Approach
• Software engineering projects
• KICS
• TREAT
• CS110 - Introduction to Programming
• CS320 - Discrete Mathematics
• CS410 - Undergraduate Software Engineering
• CS410 - Undergraduate Software Engineering - Spring 2008
• CS410 - Undergraduate Software Engineering - Spring 2007
• CS410 - Undergraduate Software Engineering - Spring 2006
• MA 114Q - Quantitative Reasoning
• MA 114Q - Quantitative Reasoning - Fall 2008
• MA 114Q - Quantitative Reasoning - Fall 2007
• MA 458 - Number Theory
• MA560 - Abstract Algebra for Secondary School Teachers
• CS615 - User Interface Design
• CS680 - Object Oriented Design, Spring 2005
• CS680 - Object Oriented Design, Spring 2003
• Software Engineering
• CS682 - Software Engineering 2007-2008
• CS681 - Software Engineering 2004-2005
• CS681 - Software Engineering 2003-2004
• CS681 - Software Engineering 2002-2003
• Using Algebra
• Rubik's Stellated Dodecahedron
• Platonic polyhedra
• A load balancing puzzle
• Scheduling for Performance: queueing theory models for fair share scheduling, goal mode scheduling, NT cpu utilization measurements, Intel's hyper-threading technology, virtualization
• Research at the intersection of combinatorics and old-fashioned geometry
• A simple-minded model for protein folding.
• Symmetries of the square.
• Looking for a particular piece of the Mandelbrot set
• The Spinor Spanner
• Groups Whose Elements are of Order Two or Three
• Dick Jeffrey & The Logic of Decision
• Modeling juror decay in a high profile criminal trial
• The William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition
• email for Joan Bolker: jbolker AT cs umb edu
• The Writer's Home Companion
• Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day
• Jessica Bolker's home page
• Ben Bolker's home page
• Solomon James Bolker Bixby
• Eleanor Joy Bixby Bolker
• Irish Water Spaniels
• Adam Leffert's home page - click here for MindModel
• Base conversion: An Excel spreadsheet with which you can experiment to see what numbers look like when expressed in different bases. (I have set up this spreadsheet so that you can only enter numbers, not change the formulas that do the work. But if your version of Excel doesn't match mine you might have to go to tools->unprotect to make this spreadsheet work.)
• Flip coins: An Excel spreadsheet that simulates flipping ten coins at a time, collecting and displaying statistics.

STUDDI

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Finding me:

My .plan

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Reaching me:

email:

eb AT cs umb edu

US mail:

Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Massachusetts at Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125-3393
USA

Phone:

(617) 287-6444 University office phone
(617) 969-2892 home phone, with answering machine, < 9PM !

FAX:

(617) 287-6433 (Department FAX)
(617) 969-2892 (If FAX expected)

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Joan Bolker's "The Writer's Home Companion"