Prof. W. D. Joyner's Homepage

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Mathematical interests: Groups, representation theory, Lie algebras, Harmonic analysis, the Langlands philosophy, error-correcting codes, GAP, and SAGE.

Research
Papers
Books
GUAVA@sage.math, guava@googlecode - an error-correcting codes GAP package
sage@scipy, sage@osmath, sage@sf, sage@dortmund 		Mathematics Department colloquium talks
free GAP programs, including the "toric" package
free MAGMA programs I've written, including the "toric" programs
some free SAGE stuff I've written.

SAGEdays 4, June 12-17, 2007
ACA 2007 Coding theory session, July 19-22, 2007 at Oakland Univ.
GAP Package authors workshop, Braunschweig, Germany, September 11-15 2007. My talks there.

Teaching

Course webpages
Student theses/papers:

Have fun playing mathematical blackjack using Steiner systems (written with Ann Luers)
Coryanne Rickwalt's term project The fundamental theorem of the megaminx
Solve puzzles using Gray codes using a MAPLE package (written with Jim McShea)

Harvey Mudd's math fun facts 		codes and crypto teaching page
A graph-theoretical introduction to Lie algebra representations
Real world applications of representation theory
Math Wars
Free maple programs I've written.
A primer on rational functions in GAP.
Rubik's cube course notes/links:

Rubik's cube-like puzzles

1997 Rubik's cube contest results

USNA "Problems of the Week"

Clock (requires Netscape/Mozilla)
(from the US Naval Observatory)
A SAGE calculator
A KASH calculator
An online calculus calculator

Some mathematical links: Some fun links: 


email: 
wdj@usna.edu
phone: 
(410) 293-6738
snail mail address:         

Mathematics Department
Chauvenet Hall
U. S. Naval Academy
572C Holloway Road
Annapolis, MD 21402
       USA

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Seasons greetingsA custom-made Barnsley-like fractal.
 clickable Einstein brain food (click on Einstein)                           

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Last updated 5-20-2008.

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