Jay Wood's Home Page
Mail: Jay A. Wood
Department of Mathematics
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5248
Physical Location: 6617
Everett Tower
Phone: (269)
387-4812 Fax:
(269) 387-4530 Home: (269) 343-0020
Email: jay(dot)wood(at)wmich(dot)edu
I am a professor of mathematics at Western
Michigan
University . In past lives, I served as chair
of the Department of Mathematics
, as the Director of Academic
Collective
Bargaining for the university, and even as interim chair of
the Department
of Statistics . CV
. Official university photos: 2000
, 2007 .
Classes:
Current term
(for
courses in previous terms, click here
)
Seminars:
WMU Algebra Seminar : Fridays
at noon, in the Alavi Commons Room, sixth floor of Everett Tower.
Current Research Interests:
Algebraic coding theory, especially mathematical structure of linear
codes over finite rings. For relevent papers and slides, click here .
Algebraic topology, especially the integral cohomology of
classifying
spaces of compact, connected Lie groups. For relevent papers,
click
here .
Links:
Dave Benson's Groups, Representations and
Cohomology Preprint Archive,
click here
.
Last update: February 23, 2009. Send comments to
jay(dot)wood(at)wmich(dot)edu .