Irena Swanson

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Photo by Manoj Kummini

Book:

Integral Closure of Ideals, Rings, and Modules,

Teaching:

MATH 212 Multivariable Calculus II: A study of line, multiple, and surface integrals, including Green's and Stokes's theorems, linear differential equations. Differential geometry of curves and surfaces or Fourier seris may be included. (I'll use Jerry Shurman's notes. He develops differential forms.) Click here for more details, including Shurman's notes.
MATH 332 Abstract Algebra: An elementary treatment of the algebraic structures of groups, rings, fields, and/or algebras. For a preview of the material, check out my course notes (pdf format). These notes will get updated before the semester starts. Gallian's book Contemporary Abstract Algebra is recommended. You may want to find a book that suits your learning/reading style (browse the library shelves, ask people who have taken abstract algebra).

Education:

B.A. Reed College 1987, Ph.D. Purdue University 1992.
My research is in commutative algebra.
- Commutative algebra news: commalg.org, courtesy of Graham Leuschke, Moira McDermott and Sean Sather-Wagstaff
- Conference in Fez, Morocco, June 2008:
Preprints
Other can't-quite-call-it-research
My mathematical family (postscript file) (Pdf version)

Mathematics service:

Editorial Board for Communications in Algebra. To submit a paper, use the web submission.
Co-moderator of the Commutative Algebra electronic archives (Check arxiv.org or UC Davis Front )
Check out the papers already there and contribute your own papers!
The two websites contain detailed instructions on how to submit papers, how to receive daily email announcements of new arrivals, what journals accept the arxiv submission in place of a paper copy, concerns about copyrights, etc.
Submissions should be tex files, in any dialect. If you do not want people to see all the comments in your tex files, save the following 3 lines into a file foo:

{gsub("\\\\%","YABADABADOO",$0);
out = $0; n = index(out,"%"); if (n > 0) out = substr($0, 1, n);
gsub("YABADABADOO","\%",out); print out; }

after which you run in UNIX shell: awk -f foo yourtexfile.tex > newname.tex After that submit your newname.tex file to arxiv.

Quilting - pictures of some of my mathematics-related quilts. Check out the one about MSRI 2002/03.

Interesting web sites:

Mathematics:	People:	Languages:	Miscellaneous:
MathSciNet	Craig Huneke, my PhD advisor	Slovenian newspapers: Vecer (evening newspaper), Dnevnik	Powell's Books (Portland, Oregon)
Zentralblatt Math Database	AMS Combined Membership list	Linguaphone	American Quilter's Society
Math Arxiv/UC Davis front, arxiv of mathematics papers	Karen Smith	Live European Radio on the internet	GSOC Satellite Predictions, and geographical coordinates of the world!
Math forum	Mathematics Genealogy	Slovensko leposlovje na spletu	Map blast
Integer sequences		Alta Vista Translations	NSF FastLane
MSRI, Berkeley		Dictionary.com	Electronic archives of journals
Macaulay2, symbolic computer algebra system			AWK manual
Singular, symbolic computer algebra system			US Naval Observatory Master Clock Time
CoCoA, symbolic computer algebra system
JSTOR
Mathematics as art, from University of Haifa

Created: 26 July 2005