Will Murray

Associate Professor
Undergraduate Advisor

Teaching and Advising

Office hours beginning August 27: M 11-12 and 4:30-6:30, Tu 2:30-4:30, F 10:30-11:30 in FO3-215. No appointment necessary -- just drop by. I do occasionally reschedule my Friday hour, so you might want to email ahead and make sure I'll be here.

Class pages:

• I have not yet made pages for my Fall 2012 Calculus II and Number Theory classes. Please check back later in August.
• Comps study page

Research

• Bilinear forms on Frobenius algebras. (Full article to appear in Journal of Algebra.)
• Using artificial intelligence for model selection, with Darin Goldstein and Binh Yang. (arXiv citation, Full article.)
• Nakayama automorphisms of Frobenius algebras. (Elsevier citation, Full article.)
• Unit regular elements in corner rings, with T.Y. Lam. (MathSciNet citation, Full article.)
• Southern California Algebra Conference
• Juggling articles:
  • Long Beach Popcorn in English and French
  • Scratch Your Head in English and French, animations
  • 7 Club Doubles in English and French
  • Passing patterns
  • Siteswap fractals (This is where the cool pictures are!)
• Java programs: Pascal's Triangle, Elliptic curve calculator
• Journal references: MathSciNet, arXiv, JSTOR, Beach library, ILLiad
• Encyclopedias: Springer, PlanetMath, Wikipedia, mathworld

• Web resources: Google, Amazon, Dictionaries and Word origins, My CSULB, Java API, Rotten Tomatoes
• News: Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, Slate, Yahoo News
• Travel: Student Universe, Travelocity, Hotwire, Orbitz, Priceline, Expedia, Best Fares, Kayak, Easy Jet, Ryanair, Air Berlin, Cheap Tickets, Flights, currency conversion, Google languages, Babelfish
• Maps: Google, Yahoo, Mapquest
• Juggling: festivals, CSULB Beach Balls, Orange Jugglers, rec.juggling, IJA forum
• Web mail: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Beach, Voice
• Humor: The Onion, Dave Barry
• Local math: Educator, CSULB, Math Department