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 2008 Courses
- Math 31-10: Calculus I
- Math 226-10:
Dynamical Systems
Some
left-overs:
- Slides
from talk at CIRM, Marseille, France, 26-March, 2009: Marseille.pdf
- New! Mathematica notebooks from my
Graduate Student Seminar, November 14, 2008. Plus extra Mathematica goodies (!!!) .
- 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)
