Associate Professor, Pure Math
Year Started at JMU: 2008
fieldre@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Website: https://educ.jmu.edu/~fieldre
Research Description
- Algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and their interactions
- Classifying spaces of reductive groups, and equivariant geometry
- String theory (dynamics of semi-classical strings on non-trivial geometry)
- Hash algorithms and coding theory
- Mathematics of games and puzzles
- 3D printing and prosthetics
Education
- PhD in Mathematics, 2000, University of Chicago
- MS in Mathematics, 1995, University of Chicago
- BA in Mathematics and Studio Art, 1994, Bowdoin College
Select Publications
- The Chow ring of the symmetric space Gl(2n, C)/SO(2n, C), Journal of Algebra, Volume 249, Issue 1, 1 January, 2012.
- The Chow ring of the classifying space BSO(2n, C), Journal of Algebra, Volume 350, Issue 1, 15 January, 2012.
- MU∗BG2, CH∗BG2 and descent, joint with I.Grojnowski, preprint, to be submitted to Journal of Algebra.
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Student and class concerns:
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wilkinbs@jmu.edu
540-568-6408
Finance and office matters:
ellis6ja@jmu.edu
540-568-6184
