E. Arthur Robinson, Jr., (Robbie)
(Picture: Summer 2006 with Ursula)
Professor of
Mathematics
B.A. 1977, Tufts
University; M.A. 1981, Ph.D. 1983, University of Maryland
Office:
274 Monroe Hall, 2115 G St. NW Washington, DC 20052
Tel: (202) 994-6237
Fax: (202) 994-6760
E-mail:robinson@gwu.edu
Brief Vitae: [pdf, 28 Kb]
Fall 2007Courses
- Math 7-10: Mathematical and
politics
- Math 214-10
Measure and Integration
Some left-overs:
- Web resources from my Fall 2006 Dean's Seminar Visual Mathematics.
- A web page on TeX
for graduate students (based on my 1/23/04 Basic Concepts lecture; Updated 1/28/05)
- How to plot the Weierstrass function
on a TI graphing calculator: Math 31, Fall 1997.
- A TI calculator program that
performs a single
pivot operation (by Dave Hough): Math 51, Fall 1999.
- Computational
Math links: part of the web site for Math 181-10
(from Spring 2001).
- Fall 2002 Ordimnary
Differential Equations: Some Maple examples.
Research Interests:
- Ergodic
theory and dynamical
systems.
- Aperiodic
tilings; Multi-dimensional symbolic dynamics.
- Lectures on
tilings and Symbolic Dynamics (Includes notes and slides from
various lectures and some additional links)
- Some
Preprints:
- A Halmos-von Neumann
Theorem for Model Sets and Almost Automorphic Dynamical Systems
(revision of "Difraction Spectra for Model Sets") [pdf 295 Kb]
- (with M. Furukado and S.
Ito) Tilings Associated with Non Pisot Matrices [pdf 807 Kb]
- (with N. P. Frank) Generalized
_-Expansions, Substitutions, and Local Finitenss [pdf 254 Kb]
- (with A. Sahin)
On the existance of Markov Partitions for Zd actions. [Postscript, 2.4 Mb]
- (with T.
Fitzkee and K. Hockett) A weakly mixing tiling dynamical system
with a smooth model, to appear in Theoretical Computer Science. [pdf, 218 Kb]
- Symbolic
Dynamics and Tilings of Rd,
to appear in AMS Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics. [Postscript,
2.9 Mb]
- Complexity
of self-affine tilings of Rd
. Special Session Lecture, Northeastern University, Boston, 10/5/02 [pdf, 99.5K]
- Continued
Fraction Expansions and Self-Similarity of Rotations on the Circle: Stan Mintchev's 2002 Senior
Thesis [Postscript
386K]
- Academic
Computeing and Distance Learning.
Administrative Assignments 2007/08:
- Undergraduate Program
Committee Chair (Math Department)
