Alan H. Shuchat

Professor of Mathematics

		Email:	ashuchat [at] wellesley [dot] edu
		US Mail:	Department of Mathematics  Wellesley College  106 Central Street  Wellesley, MA 02481
		Office:	Science Center 368
		Phone:	(781) 283-3111
		Fax:	(781) 283-3642

Education:

S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963.

M.S., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1965.

Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1969.

Professional Experience:

1974-       Wellesley College

                    Professor of Mathematics since 1983

                    Associate Dean of the College, 1989-92

1971-74   Mount Holyoke College, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

1968-71   University of Toledo, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Visiting Positions:

2004-05   UMASS-BOSTON, Visiting Professor and Scientist

1984   MIT Operations Research Center, Visiting Scientist, spring

1981   Transportation Systems Center, Faculty Fellow, summer

1979-80   MIT Operations Research Center, Research Fellow

Research Interests:

Teaching:

Fall 2007

Math 205: Multivariable Calculus

Math 206: Linear Algebra

Spring 2008

Math 210: Differential Equations

Math 220: Probability and Elementary Statistics

Publications and Preprints:

• Fractional weak discrepancy and interval orders (with R. Shull and A. Trenk), submitted for publication.
• Fractional weak discrepancy of posets and certain forbidden configurations (with R. Shull and A. Trenk), submitted for publication.
• The fractional weak discrepancy of a partially ordered set (with R. Shull and A. Trenk), Discrete Appl. Math. 155(2007), 2227-2235.
• Translation: Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians, S.G. Gindikin, 2nd ed., Springer, 2006; 1st ed., Birkhäuser Boston, 1987.
• Range of the fractional weak discrepancy function (with R. Shull and A. Trenk), ORDER 23(2006), 51-63.
• Alumnae Profiles: Wellesley College (with M. Kerr and A. Trenk), Math Horizons, Feb. 2005, 22-24.
• The Joy of Mathematica: Instant Mathematica for Calculus, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra (with F. Shultz), 2nd ed., Harcourt/Academic Press 2000; 1st ed., Addison-Wesley, 1994; Japanese translation, Addison-Wesley Japan and Toppan Publ, 1995.
• Arc weighting in hidden bicircular networks (with R. Shull, J. Orlin, and M. Lepp), Congressus Numerantium 125(1997), 161-171.
• Computing in the curriculum at Wellesley College, in Technology and Teaching, ed. L. Lloyd, Information Today, 1997, 35-40.
• Recognizing hidden bicircular networks (with R. Shull, J. Orlin, and M. Lepp), Discrete Appl. Math. 41(1993), 13-53.
• Lotteries, present values, and infinite series, NLA News, October 1989, 16-17.
• The structure of bases in bicircular matroids (with R. Shull, J. Orlin, and M. Gardner), Discrete Appl. Math. 23(1989), 267-283.
• Medical technology and critical decisions: an interdisciplinary course in technological literacy (with T. Ducas, J. Grant), Bull. Science, Technology, and Society 7(1987), 71-77.
• Generalized least squares and eigenvalues, American Math. Monthly 92(1985), 656-659.
• Matrix and network models in archaeology, Mathematics Magazine 57(1984), 3-14.
• Book review: Raisonnement et Méthodes Mathématiques en Archéologie, M. Borillo et al., eds., Math. Intelligencer 5(1983), 68-69.
• Infrabarreled spaces, linear operators and vector measures, Bull. Soc. Royale Sci. Liège 48(1979), 153-157.
• Spectral measures and homomorphisms, Rev. Roumaine Math. Pures et Appl. 23(1978), 939-945.
• Vector measures and scalar operators in locally convex spaces, Michigan Math. J. 24(1977), 303-310.
• Integral representation theorems in topological vector spaces, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 172(1972), 373-397.
• Approximation of vector-valued continuous functions, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 31(1972), 97-103.

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