Rob Ray, Ph.D.

Assistant ProfessorPhoto by Jennifer Raudebaugh
Gonzaga University

Email:   rayr(remove this text)@gonzaga.edu
AIM: robray571

Office: Herak 307B,   (509) 313-3916 (although it is best to contact me via email)
Office hours:        1:00 - 2:00 MTWF (and by appointment, or any time my door is open)
                              


Department of Mathematics
Gonzaga University
MSC 2615
502 E. Boone Ave
Spokane, WA 99258-2615

Daily Schedule Fall 2009:

Monday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 Thursday
 Friday
9:00 - 9:50



Math Lab
10:00 - 10:50 MA259-03
Herak 244
 MA259-03
Herak 244
(9:50-10:40)
 MA259-03
Herak 244
MA259-03
Herak 244
11:00 - 11:50
 MA421-01
Paccar 107
MA421-01
Paccar 107
MA421-01
Paccar 107
12:00 - 1:00




1:00 - 2:00
 Office Hour
 Office Hour Office Hour
Office Hour
2:10 - 3:00
 MA321-02
Herak 244
MA321-02
Herak 244
MA321-02
Herak 244

 
Courses:
    Fall 2009
          MA259 Calculus-Analytic Geometry III
          MA321 Statistics for Experimentalists
          MA421 Probability Theory

    Summer 2009
          MA121 Introductory Statistics
          MA258 Calculus-Analytic Geometry II

    Spring 2009
          MA301 Fundamentals of Mathematics
          MA321 Statistics for Experimentalists (Sections 02 and 04)

    Fall 2008
          MA259 Calculus-Analytic Geometry III
          MA321 Statistics for Experimentalists

    Spring 2008
          MA258 Calculus-Analytic Geometry II
          MA321 Statistics for Experimentalists


Research:
I am currently performing research in the area of quantum groups.   More specifically, I am studying orthogonal/symplectic invariants for the action of GLq(n) on Aq(X).

To aid in some of the calculations, I created a Maple package with procedures for calculating the action of Uq(gl(n)) on Aq(X).  You may download this package with the following link:

Dissertation:
Quantum Symmetric Spaces and Symplectic Invariants

Presentations:
Graduate Student Algebra Seminar(June 2002) Hopf Algebras, definitions and examples (pdf)
Spokane Regional Mathematics Colloquium (March 2004) An Introduction to Hopf Algebras (pdf)
 
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-Churchill

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