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.
- Associate Professor, Sam Houston State University, 1999--2000.
- Associate Professor, San Jose State University, 2000 -- 2006.
- Professor, San Jose State University, 2006 -- present.
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****** High Standard, Plenty Help, Some Fun ******
****** Not Just Think But Think Carefully, Confidently and Creatively ******
Office hours (May 29 -- July 8, 2012):
- by appointment only (via email)
Courses taught next semester (Summer 2012, July 9 -- August 9):
- Math129a Linear Algebra I, MoTuWeTh 8:00--10:15, MH233
- Textbook: David Lay, Linear algebra and its application, 4th edition.
- Syllabus, Calendar (coming soon)
Courses taught this semester (Spring 2012):
- Math 32 Calculus III, section 2, MW 10:30--11:45, CL234
- Final: May 18 (Fri) 9:45--12:00, CL234
- special office hours: May 17 (Thur) 11:00--13:00, MH418
- Syllabus ,
Calendar
- Homework ,
Answer 1 ,
Answer 2 ,
Answer 3 ,
Answer 4 ,
Answer 5 ,
Answer to section 14.4 ,
Answer 6 ,
Answer 7 ,
Answer 8 ,
Answer to section 15.7 ,
Answer 9 ,
Answer 10 ,
Answer 11 ,
Answer 12
- Old Final and its answers,
Solution to Test 1 ,
Solution to Test 2 ,
Solution to Test 3
- Math 32 Calculus III, section 3, MW 12:00--13:15, CL234
- Final: May 22 (Tue) 9:45--12:00, CL234
- special office hours: May 21 (Mon) 11:00--13:00, MH418
- Syllabus ,
Calendar
- Homework ,
Answer 1 ,
Answer 2 ,
Answer 3 ,
Answer 4 ,
Answer 5 ,
Answer to section 14.4 ,
Answer 6 ,
Answer 7 ,
Answer 8 ,
Answer to section 15.7 ,
Answer 9 ,
Answer 10 ,
Answer 11 ,
Answer 12
- Old Final and its answers,
Solution to Test 1 ,
Solution to Test 2 ,
Solution to Test 3
- Math 279A Graph Theory, section 1, MW 17:30--18:45 (new time), MH233
Courses taught before:
- Calculus sequence:
- Discrete Mathematics sequence:
- Probability and Statistics sequence:
- Linear Algebra sequence:
- Applied Math sequence:
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****** Expect the Unexpected ******
****** Often Imitated But Never Duplicated ******
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
Ongoing Projects, Preprints, and Recent Publications :
- When does cprank equal rank? (with C. Xu), submitted.
- Computing inertia sets using atoms (with W. Barrett, S. Butler, H. T. Hall, J. Sinkovic, C. Starr and A. Yielding),
Linear Algebra and its Applications, 436 (2012) 4489--4502.
- The energy of the Mycielskian of a regular graph (with R. Balakrishnan and T. Kavaskar),
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 52 (2012) 163-171.
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Past publication (before 2012)
Upcoming meetings and Recent Presentations:
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Department (2011-2012)
- Graduate Curriculum Committee Member
- Linear Algebra & Matrices Course Committee Member
College (2011-2012)
- COS Resarch & Scholarship Committee Member
Professional
- Master thesis 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. Abstract
- 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.
Abstract
- Usha Watson, Integral Cayley Graphs over Z_2 + Z_{2p} , 2011.
Abstract
- 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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