David B. Surowski CV

David B. Surowski
Brief CV

Degrees	Experience
Administrative Charge	Honorary and Professional Societies
Courses Taught	Research Interests
Publications	Back to Main

DEGREES: B.A., 1971, mathematics, minor physics, California State University, Fullerton. M.S., 1972, and Ph.D., 1975, mathematics, applied mathematics, University of Arizona. Ph.D. dissertation, Irreducible Characters of B-N Pairs of Exceptional Types, major advisor Larry C. Grove
EXPERIENCE:
1. Graduate Assistant in Teaching, 1971-1973, University of Arizona.
2. Graduate Associate in Teaching, 1973-1976, University of Arizona.
3. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1976-1977, Loyola Marymount University
4. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1977-1982, Kansas State University.
5. Associate Professor of Mathematics, 1982-1989, Kansas State University.
6. Professor of Mathematics, 1989-present, Kansas State University.
ADMINISTRATIVE CHARGE: Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Mathematics. Involves screening and admission of applicants, coordinating academic activities of graduate students and faculty as relates to the graduate program.
HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: American Mathematical Society
COURSES TAUGHT: College Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Undergraduate and Graduate level Modern Algebra, Statistics, Computational Matrix Algebra, Numerical Analysis, Invariant Theory, Group Representation Theory (ordinary and modular), Riemann Surface Theory, Ordinary Differential Equations, Algebraic Topology, Combinatorics.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Characters and representations of finite groups, especially those of Lie type, finite geometries, topological graph theory, algebraic map theory, homological methods.
PUBLICATIONS:
1. A Character-Theoretic Proof of the Homological Sylow Theorem, Comm. in Algebra, 13 (4) (1985), 987–989. PREPRINT
2. Vertex Transitive Triangulations of Compact Orientable 2-Manifolds, J. Comb. Theory ( B), 39 (1985), 371–375.
3. A Family of Homology Representations of Finite Groups of Type B_n, J. Algebra 103 (1986), 323–361.
4. Symmetrical Maps Arising from Regular Coxeter Elements of Linear Groups, Proc. NATO Conference on Finite Groups and Geometries , Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, Geometriae Dedicata 25 (1988), 535–542.
5. Decompositions and Automorphisms of Certain C_n Geometries, Algebras, Groups and Geometries, 4 (1987), 421–437.
6. Lifting Map Automorphisms and Macbeath's Theorem, J. Combinatorial Theory, Ser. B, Vol. 50, No. 2, (1990), 135–149. PREPRINT
7. B_n 型 Weyl 群的某些 sl₂ 型表示, 第 28 卷第 1 期 (sl₂-Type Representations of the Weyl Group of Type B_n), Acta Scientiarum Universitatis Pekinensis, Vol. 28, No. 1, (1992), 77–81. PREPRINT
8. The Uniqueness Aspect of the Fundamental Theorem of Finite Abelian Groups, Amer. Math. Monthly, Vol. 102, No. 2 (1995), 162–163. PREPRINT
9. 半序集下同调的研究概论及 Quillen 猜想的一个重要方面 , (Remarks on Poset Homology and an Important Aspect of the Quillen Conjecture) 数学进展, 第 24 卷第 6 期, 1995 年 12 月, 北京, Advances in Mathematics, Vol. 24, No. 6, Dec., 1995, Beijing, 501–514. EXPANDED PREPRINT
10. The Snake lemma in an abelian category, Communications in Algebra, Vol. 28, No. 1, (2000), 249–253. PREPRINT
11. (With G.A. Jones), Regular cyclic coverings of the Platonic maps, European J. Combinatorics, 21 (2000), 333–345. PREPRINT
12. (With G.A. Jones), Cohomological construction of regular cyclic coverings of the Platonic maps, European J. Combinatorics, 21 (2000), 407–418. PREPRINT
13. Liftings of Automorphisms of Hypermaps, Discrete Mathematics 215 (2000), 213–224. PREPRINT
14. Stability of arc-transitive graphs, Journal of Graph Theory, Vol 38, Issue 2 (2001), 95–110. PREPRINT
15. (With Kevin Anderson), Coxeter-Petrie Complexes of Regular Maps, European J.Combinatorics, 23 (2002), 861–880. EXPANDED PREPRINT
16. (With Paul McCombs), Homogeneous Polynomials and the Minimal Polynomial of cos(2p/n) , Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 1, (2003), 4–14. PREPRINT
17. (With Yuhua Wang), Uniqueness of Row Echelon Form, Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 1, (2003), 36–39. PREPRINT
18. Automorphism Groups of Certain Unstable Graphs, Mathematica Slovaca, 53 (2003), No. 3, 215–232. PREPRINT, GALLEY (postscript).
19. Homological methods in algebraic map theory (with Chris Schroeder), European J.Combinatorics, 24 (2003), 1003–1044. PREPRINT.
20. Cyclic Regular Coverings of Regular Affine Maps (with Chris Schroeder), European J.Combinatorics, 24 (2003), 1045–1080. . PREPRINT.
MISCELLANEOUS:
1. Workbook in Higher Algebra.
2. Rough summary of algebraic map theory.
FORAY INTO ENGINEERING:
1. Seminar on Claude Shannon's Theory of Information. These are notes that I prepared for a short seminar on the subject in May 2000 at G3M in San Jose, California.
2. Signaling .

David B. Surowski Brief CV

David B. Surowski
Brief CV