The University of Indianapolis

 

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science


 

William Higdon, PhD, Michigan State University (1997)

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science (employed at The University of Indianapolis since 1998).

202 Lilly Science Hall, 1400 E. Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46227

Telephone: (317) 788-3514, FAX: (317) 788-3569

e-mail: whigdon-at-uindy-dot-edu (encoded to deter some types of web-crawlers)

Written messages may be left with the departmental receptionist, Vivian Mouser,
at (317) 788-3264

 

Office Hours for Spring 2008:

Monday 4:30-5:30, Thursday 2:00-2:50, and  Friday 10:00-10:50

Other hours are definitely available by appointment!

 


Recent Publication:

    The Spectra Of Composition Operators From Linear Fractional Maps Acting Upon The Dirichlet Space, Journal of Functional Analysis, Volume 220 (2005),  55-75.  (preprint)

    Co-author, Chapter 11 of the book Design Pattern Formalization Techniques, edited by Toufik Taibi, IGI Publishing, 2007.


Some of my interests:

Mathematics:

    • Mathematics Teaching
    • Real and Complex Analysis;
    • Functional Analysis and Operator Theory
    • Function Theory; Composition Operators acting on spaces of analytic functions

Computer Science:

    • Computer Science Teaching
    • Programming Languages and Program Translation
    • Distributed Computing Systems and Design Patterns
    • Artificial Intelligence

Music:

    • The history of music played in America (a personal exercise in ethnomusicology).
       

 

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