Jim Wiseman
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Chair, Engineering Dual-Degree Adviser
Contact Information
Phone: 404.471.6202
Email: jwiseman@agnesscott.edu
Office Hours: Monday, 2:30-3:30
Tuesday, 2:00-3:30
and by appointment
Academic Degrees
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S., Northwestern University
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Teaching and Scholarly Interests
Professor Wiseman's interests include dynamical systems, dynamics from the topological viewpoint, Conley index, dynamics on noncompact spaces, rigorous computation, fixed point theory, set-valued maps, voting theory, social choice and public health.
Professional Activities
Recent Publications:
(with David Richeson) Chain recurrence rates and topological entropy, Topology and its Applications, vol. 156, no. 2 (2008), 251-261.
The square of a map, symbolic dynamics, and the Conley index, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, vol. 37, no. 1 (2007), 327-342.
(with David Richeson) Positively expansive dynamical systems, Topology and its Applications, vol. 154, no. 3 (2007), 604-613.
(with Danielle Silverman, Swarthmore '04) Noting the difference: musical scales and permutations, American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 113, no. 7 (2006), 648-651.
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