TEACHING
During the academic year 2022-23 I will not teach. I will be away on sabbatical.
Here are other classes that I particularly enjoy teaching because
they are directly related with my research interests:
MATH 114 Convex Geometry
MATH 115A "Theory of Numbers" .
MATH 115B "Theory of Numbers" .
MATH 128C "Numerical Differential Equations''.
MATH 145 Combinatorics
MATH 146 "Algebraic Combinatorics''.
MATH 165 "Math and Computers"
.
MATH 167 Applied Linear Algebra
MATH 168 "Mathematical Optimization''.
MATH 170 Mathematics for Data Sciences and Decision Making.
MATH 189 Advanced Problem Solving: Capstone
MATH 245 "Enumerative
Combinatorics" .
MATH 246 Algebraic & Geometric Combinatorics
MATH 250ABC "Algebra" .
MATH 258B Discrete Optimization
Every two years or so I try to teach a graduate class (as Topics class
MATH 280) on my most current research interests.
Here are the last two I taught:
MATH 280 "Algebraic and Geometric
Methods in Optimization''.
MATH 280 Geometric and Topological Tools in Game Theory and Optimization
MY THOUGHTS ON TEACHING, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, and INCLUSION
Some principles I use when I teach
Axioms on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion for Math Education
MENTORING AND OUTREACH
- I love to work with students in research projects.
I always have a weekly research seminar in various math projects.
Some are suitable for undergrads. Contact me if you are interested. I have been undergraduate research coordinator several times.
- I always try to convince students into becoming math majors or minors.
For this reason, I have taught
Freshman Seminars, math club advisor,
and taught for COSMOS (a program for talented high school students in
California).
- I was faculty advisor for CALESS (student club for Chicanos and la
tinos in Engineering and Science). I support
MCNAIR, MURRPS
(programs to facilitate the participation of minorities in the mathematical
and physical sciences).
FORMER GRAD STUDENTS
Here is a list of my former Ph.D Students (recent appointment listed).
- Ruriko Yoshida 2004 (Associate Prof. Statistics Univ. Kentucky)
- Maya Ahmed 2004 (Software development)
- Tyrrell McAllister 2006 (Associate Prof. Univ. of Wyoming)
- Susan Margulies 2008 (Associate Prof. U.S. Naval Academy)
- David Haws 2009 (Technical Staff IBM Watson Research Center)
- Edward Kim 2010 (Associate Prof. Univ. of Wisconsin, Lacrosse)
- Mohamed Omar 2011 (Assistant Prof., Harvey Mudd College)
- Yvonne Kemper 2013 (Postdoctoral researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington DC).
- Jacob Miller 2016 (Data Scientist at Facebook Inc.)
- Reuben La Haye 2016 (Staff Scientist at Google Inc.)
- Brandon E. Dutra 2016, co-supervised with Prof. Koeppe, (Staff Scientist Google, Inc.)
- Jamie Haddock 2018 (Postdoctoral Fellow UCLA Center for Applied Math.)
- Lily Silverstein 2019 (Assistant Prof. California Polytechnic, Pomona)
- Tommy Hogan 2019 (Data Scientist at Tatari Inc., Los Angeles)
- Zhenyang Zhang 2022 (Staff Scientist at Google Inc.)
UNDERGRAD STUDENTS
For undergraduates doing research is a nice experience. You get to use all you have learned in college in a single project and research gives you a taste of graduate school and tech jobs. Topics are very diverse. You can see
a list of all honors senior thesis, since 2008. If your GPA is good, you should consider doing research to graduate with honors! A seniors thesis.
At UC Davis alone Prof. De Loera has supervised for the work of
many undergraduates (those that went to graduate school marked with
schools names, * means wrote a paper or a senior thesis).
Here are some papers in which undergraduates student contributed as co-authors.
- (with D.Haws, R. Hemmecke, P. Huggins, B. Sturmfels, R. Yoshida)
"Short rational functions for toric algebra and its applications"
Journal of Symbolic Computation, 38, 2004, 959--973.
- (with D.Haws, R. Hemmecke, P. Huggins, R. Yoshida)
"Three kinds of Integer Programming Algorithms based on Barvinok's
rational functions" in proceedings {\em Tenth International Conference
in Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, New York NY, June 2004}
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3064, 244--255.
- (with D. Haws, J. Lee and A. O'Hair), Computation in
Multicriteria Matroid Optimization, {\em ACM Journal of
Experimental Algorithmics}, volume 14, pages 8:1.8--8:1.33, 2010.
- (with R. Hemmecke, J. Tauzer, and R. Yoshida)
``Effective lattice point counting in rational convex polytopes.''
Journal of Symbolic Computation, vol. 38 no. 4 (2004), 1273--1302.
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- (with K. Burggraff and M. Omar), ``Triangulations and volumes of
permutation polytopes'', to appear in Fields Institute Proceedings
- (with B. Dutra, M. Koeppe, S. Moreinis, G. Pinto, J. Wu) ``Software for Exact Integration of Polynomials over Polyhedra'', to appear Computational Geometry Theory and Applications.