Since mid-May 2007 I have been serving as Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Mathematics. Queries about the graduate program here at K-State from prospective or current students can be sent to me at dyetter@math.ksu.edu or to Penny Crawford, the Graduate Studies Adminstrative Assistant at math@math.ksu.edu
A wealth of information about the graduate program of sorts useful to both prospective and current students can be found on the Math Graduate Program web page and pages linked from it.I am also, since January 2008 serving as Director of Undergraduate Research. We are in the process of seeking new funding for a new REU site. Watch the departmental web site for news.
My office office is Cardwell Hall 206. Office hours are by appointment.
My office phone is (785) 532-0590, though at present this is useful only for leaving voice-mail, as it has not followed me to my new office.
If you wish to reach me by e-mail, send e-mail to dyetter@math.ksu.edu. Do not send e-mail to my CNS unix account. It is a black hole: I do not forward mail from it to my account at math.ksu.edu, as almost all the mail sent to it is adminstrative junk-mail that I already receive (sometimes in triplicate!) on my math account. Everyone I want to get e-mail from knows to send it to dyetter@math.ksu.edu, and now, you do, too. Worse, with an increasing amount of spam designed cleverly enough to evade spam filters, a forwarding order would only augment the affliction of Nigerian scams, bizarrely spelled advertisements for pharmaceuticals or grotesque erotica, and graphics spam touting penny stocks already visited upon my inbox.During Fall 2009 I am teaching MATH 701 Elementary Topology and MATH 510 Discrete Mathematics (which at K-State is a solid introduction to enumerative combinatorics and graph theory).
Color versions of the figures for the paper "On Algebraic Structures Implicit in Toplogical Quantum Field Theories" which appeared in the Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications are available as promised in the published article.
Link to K-State Math Dept. Homepage
Besides conducting research in quantum topology, deformation theory, and related matters, teaching various math courses, and serving on University and departmental committees, I also serve the K-State community as the faculty advisor to the K-State Orthodox Christian Fellowship and webmaster for a site containing its homepage, and those of its host church, the St. Mary Magdalene Orthodox Christian Mission, and its mother church, All Saints Orthodox Church, Salina. Visit it!
Link to orthodoxkansas.orgI also maintain an "Outside the University Homepage" for things which won't fit here either because it would be silly to include them or because of some State of Kansas or K-State regulation.
Link to David Yetter's Outside the University Homepage. Now available again at a new web address!