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teaching during the current semester, some
of the research that I am doing and have done and other links that
interest me.
I
am the director of LMU's
New Europe Program
and the Summer
Engineering, Mathematics and Science Program. Both
programs take place in Bonn, Germany at the
Akademie für
Internationale Bildung (AIB).
I'll be teaching in Bonn in Spring and Summer 2008. If you are
interested in studying in Bonn in summer 2008, send me an e-mail, drop by
the LMU Study Abroad Office (UH 1840), or contact Prof. Hawley Almstedt (halmstedt@lmu.edu)
in the Department of Natural Science.
Let me tell you a
little about myself. I was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the
United States at the age of eight. I received my Bachelor of Science in
Mathematics/Computer Science (1985) from UCLA,
and my Ph.D. in Mathematics (1992) from UC
Berkeley. I am currently Professor of Mathematics at Loyola
Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. My research interests center
on functional analysis, harmonic analysis and wavelets; among
my other mathematical hobbies are linear algebra and continued fractions. One of my other interests is working on projects to increase the
participation of historically underrepresented groups in mathematics and the
sciences, for example the
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program
(MSRI-UP) in Berkeley, CA. My current non-mathematical hobbies include running, biking
(the last picture above was taken in summer 2005 when I did some cycling in
Italy), the Camino de Santiago (the middle picture above was taken on the
Camino) and history, especially American, Latin American and mathematical (the
first picture above was taken in front of Gauss' former residence in Göttingen). My favorite (non-mathematical) writer is
Carlos Castaneda.
Let me introduce you to one of my favorite poems.
The conditions of a solitary bird are
five:
the first, that it flies to the highest point;
the second, that it does not suffer for company,
not even of its own kind:
the third, that it aims its beak to the skies;
the fourth, that it does not have definite color;
the fifth, that it sings very softly.
---San Juan de la Cruz
And also to one of my favorite verses from a song.
No hacen falta alas para hacer un sueño.
Basta con las manos, basta con el pecho,
basta con las piernas, y con el empeño.
No hacen falta alas para ser más bello.
Basta el buen sentido del amor imenso.
No hacen falta alas para hacer el vuelo.
---Silvio Rodríguez
This page was last updated on
01/02/08.
