Homepage of Ben Braun, University of Kentucky

Benjamin Braun
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027 USA

Phone: (859) 257-6810
Fax: (859) 257-4078
Email: benjamin.braun "at" uky "dot" edu

Professional Info - Teaching and Outreach - Research - Conference Organization - UK Math Links - General Math Links - Computing Links

Professional Information:

My office is #831 Patterson Office Tower.

Office hours for Summer 2013: by appointment.

I am a member of the following organizations:
Curriculum Vita, last updated May 2013.

Teaching and Outreach Information:

In Fall 2013 I am teaching:

MA 330, History of Mathematics
MA 341, Topics in Geometry

For teaching and advising experience, see my CV
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Interests and Publications
Mathematics and mathematics education references
I am a co-director of the Central Kentucky Mathematical Circles

Research Information:

Research Interests and Publications
For my talk list, see my CV
I am a member of the:
- Discrete Mathematics Research Group
- Topology Research Group
Funding: National Science Foundation award DMS-0758321, National Security Agency award H98230-13-1-0240.

Conference and Special Session Organization:

FPSAC 2014.
Member, Organizing Committee.
Chicago, IL.
June 23 - July 9, 2014.
Special Session on The Work of Mathematicians and Mathematics Departments in Mathematics Education
Co-Organized with Carl Lee and David Royster from University of Kentucky.
Fall Southeastern Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society.
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
October 5-6 (Saturday-Sunday), 2013

University of Kentucky Mathematics Links:

Central Kentucky Mathematical Circles, an outreach activity for K-12 students in central Kentucky.
UK Undergraduate Mathematics Program
UK Noetherian Ring/AWM student chapter
UK Math Graduate Student Council
UK Math and Stat Webmail

Mathematical Links:

Combinatorics and Discrete Algebra Computing Resources:

SAGE, a free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.
LattE, a program for counting lattice points in lattice polytopes
Polymake, software for experimental investigation of polytopes
GAP -- Groups, Algorithms, Programming, software for Computational Discrete Algebra
Simplicial Homology, a share package for GAP that computes simplicial homology for simplicial complexes
Macaulay2, software for computational commutative algebra