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Welcome to Wasin So's Homepage
Position : Professor of Mathematics
Office: MacQuarrie Hall Room 418
Address:
Department of Mathematics
San Jose State University
San Jose, California 95192-0103
Telephone: 408-924-5155
Fax : 408-924-5080
Email: wasin dot so at sjsu dot edu
Education
Academic Experience
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications,
University of Minnesota, 1991--1992.
- Postdoctoral Researcher,
Center of Linear Structures and Combinatorics , University of Lisbon, 1993.
- Project NExT Fellow, 1994--1995.
- Assistant Professor,
Sam Houston State University , 1992--1999.
- Visiting Lecturer, Xiangtan Polytechnic University, Hunan, China, May--June 1999.
- Associate Professor, Sam Houston State University, 1999--2000.
- Associate Professor, San Jose State University, 2000 -- 2006.
- Visiting Lecturer, University of Malta, Malta, July 2012.
- Professor, San Jose State University, 2006 -- present.
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Office hours (May 14 -- August 20, 2013):
- By appointment (via email) only.
Courses taught next semester (Fall 2013):
- Math32 Calculus III, section 3, MW 12:00--13:15, MH223
- Math129A Linear Algebra I, section 3, MW 13:30--14:45, MH424
- Math129A Linear Algebra I, section 4, MW 16:30--17:45, MH424
Courses taught before:
- Calculus sequence:
- Discrete Mathematics sequence:
- Linear Algebra sequence:
- Probability and Statistics sequence:
- Applied Math sequence:
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Interests :
- Matrix Theory : the study of arrays
- Graph Theory : the study of dots and lines
- Probability Theory : the study of chances
- Number Theory : the study of primes
- Interest Theory : the study of money
Ongoing Projects, Preprints, and Recent Publications :
- Skew spectra of graphs without even cycles (with A. Anuradha and R. Balakrishnan), submitted.
- When does cprank equal rank? (with C. Xu), submitted.
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Past publication (before 2013)
Upcoming meetings and Recent Presentations:
- Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiaotung University, Shanghai, China, July 26, 2013
- "Integral circulant graphs"
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Jiangsu, China, July 22-25, 2013.
- "CP matrices: the contribution of Xu"
- "Cutting right-triangle: an application of Perron-Frobenius theory"
- 2013 Workshop on
MATRICES AND OPERATORS, Beijing, China,
July 15-18, 2013.
- "Inverse graph eigenvalue problem"
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Past presentations (before 2013)
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Department (2012-2013)
- Advising Committee Member
- Graduate Curriculum Committee Member
- Discrete Math & Graph Theory Course Committee Member
- Linear Algebra & Matrices Course Committee Member
Professional
- Master thesis/project students
- Jane Huang, Image Registration and Wavelet
Decomposition, 1997
- Linda Zientek, Fundamental Similarity, 1997
- David Benzel, Pythagorean Triples and Jasmenwozc
Conjecture, 1998
- Christopher F. Cusanza, Integral Circulant Graphs with the Spectral Adam Property , 2006.
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- Viet Nguyen, Construction of Symmetric Matrices with Prescribed Spectra, 2006.
Abstract
- Tue Rust, Understand the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, 2006.
Abstract
- Wilson Florero, The Search of Graphs Equienergetic with Edge Deleted Subgraph , 2008.
Abstract
- Vinh Nguyen, Family of Circulant Graphs and its Expander Properties , 2010.
Abstract
- David Zimmermann, The Friendship Theorem , 2010.
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- Usha Watson, Integral Cayley Graphs over Z_2 + Z_{2p} , 2011.
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- Nick Khorlin, A Characterization of Graphically Spectral Numbers , 2013.
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- Ryan Flarity, Generation and Completion of Unimodular Matrices , 2013.
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- Referee for the following journals
- Linear Algebra and its Applications
- Linear and Multilinear Algebra
- SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
- Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra
- American Mathematical Monthly
- Discrete Mathematics
- Reviewer of Mathematical Reviews
- Examiner of University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Co-organizer of the following meetings:
- 1999 Conference on Multiwavelets: theory and applications, Huntsville, Texas
- 2001 Southern California Matrix Conference, San Jose, California
- 2004 Southern California Matrix Conference, San Jose, California
- 2005 R. C. Thompson Matrix Conference, San Francisco, California
- 2007 R. C. Thompson Matrix Conference, Auburn, Alabama
- Judge of the following math/science fair
- 2001 Intel Science Fair
- 2002, 2003, 2004 MAA Math Undergrad Poster
- AP Statistics reader
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Linear Algebra Journals
Mathematical Societies
Mathematics Centers
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