Roger K. Alexander Associate Professor Mathematics Department Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts Ames, Iowa 50011 USA Iowa's land grant college under the Morrill Act Email: alex at iastate dot edu Phone: (515) 294-7579 FAX: (515) 294-5454 http://www.public.iastate.edu/~alex/

Research

Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Software

• Category:Mathematics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• Numerical Analysis FAQ
• Mathematical Software Index at FSU.
• Numerical Analysis Page at FSU.
• Tomasz Plewa's list of www sites for numerical methods
• Ajay Shah's index of resources for Numerical Analysis in C or C++
• Ian MacPhedran and Roger Young's pages on finite element resources
• Consortium for ODE Experiments
• N-Body/Particle Simulation
• Disasters due to rounding error.

Dynamical Systems and Bifurcation

• SUNY at Stony Brook has a Dynamical Systems Homepage.

Research papers and preprints

• Design and implementation of DIRK integrators for stiff systems Applied Numerical Mathematics vol 46/1 1-17.
• Stability and error bounds for numerical methods for stiff initial value problems Annals of Numerical Mathematics 1 (1994) 1-15.
• Stability of Runge-Kutta methods for stiff ordinary differential equations SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 31, No. 4 (August, 1994) 1-22.

General Mathematics Links

• Florida State U maintains the Mathematics WWW Virtual Library
• Penn State Mathematics Department maintains a database and a search engine for Mathematics web sites around the world.
• U. Tennessee Knoxville provides a Mathematics Archives WWW Server

Teaching

ISU Math Department Calculus Homepage

Developing Personal Web Pages at ISU

• Outline of the presentation.
• A template for a personal or course web page, courtesy of Sue Ellen Tuttle.
• Personal Web Pages in the Math Department presentation by Professor Keinert.

Teaching Mathematics

• Statement on teaching
• Excerpts from teaching evaluations
• Here's a handy AWK-language program that creates a class roster and mail list file from class lists that instructors can download from the Registrar.

• Mathematics 165: Calculus I
• Mathematics 165H: Calculus I (Honors)
• Mathematics 165T: Theory of Calculus I
• Mathematics 166: Calculus II
• Mathematics 166H: Honors Calculus II
• Mathematics 201: Introduction to Proofs
• Mathematics 265: Calculus III
• Mathematics 265H: Honors Calculus III
• Mathematics 267: Elementary Differential Equations and Laplace Transforms
• Mathematics 273: Introduction to Scientific Computing
• Mathematics 301: Introduction to Abstract Algebra
• Mathematics 307: Theory of Matrices
• Mathematics 317: Theory of Linear Algebra
• Mathematics 414: Advanced Calculus I
• Mathematics 415: Advanced Calculus II
• Mathematics 471: Numerical Linear Algebra and Nonlinear Equations
• Mathematics 481: Numerical Approximation and Ordinary Differential Equations
• Mathematics 502: Numerical Analysis I
• Mathematics 503: Numerical Analysis II
• Mathematics 507: Numerical ODE

Links Beyond Mathematics

• The Central Iowa Barn Dance Association holds local Ames dances.
• The Muses (Music & Dance, Poetry & Art)
• Academic Freedom and Civil Liberties
• New Zealand
• Commonplace Book
• Cyberspace Cookbook Shelf
• is the search engine I use most.

Last Revised: Fri Jan 9 2009