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Benjamin Jones Vii

PhD
Mathematics Statistics and Computer Science

Office: 227 Jarvis Hall - Science Wing
Phone: 715/232-1404
Email: jonesbe@uwstout.edu

Education

  • University of Notre Dame, PhD mathematics, 2007
  • University of Utah, BS mathematics, physics minor, 2002

Research Interests

Areas of Research

  • Algebraic groups
  • Representation theory
  • Abstract algebra
  • Computational algebra, geometry, and combinatorics

Publications

  1. First cohomology for finite groups of Lie type: simple modules with small dominant weights (with UGA VIGRE Algebra Group), to appear in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, preprint:arXiv:1010.1203v2 [math.GR]
  2. Normality of orbit closures in the enhanced nilpotent cone (with Pramod Achar and Anthony Henderson), Nagoya Math. J., 203 (2011), pp. 1-45.
  3. Singular Chern Classes of Schubert Varieties via Small Resolution
    International Mathematics Research Notices 2009; doi: 10.1093/imrn/rnp174
  4. Cohomology of Quantum Groups: An Analog of Kostant's Theorem
    (with UGA VIGRE Algebra Group), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010), 85--99.
  5. On the Support Varieties of Demazure Modules (with Daniel K. Nakano)
    submitted, preprint available: arXiv:1002.0829v1 [math.RT]

For more detail see: My Research Webpage

Courses Taught

Fall 2011

  • Calculus II (154)
  • Calculus & Analytic Geometry I (156)
  • Modern Algebra I (370)

Spring 2011

  • College Math I (120)
  • Calculus II (154)

Fall 2010

  • College Math I (120)
  • Calculus II (154)

For more detail see: My Teaching Webpage

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