Harriet Pollatsek

Courses

Math 319, Topics in Algebra: Lie groups (fall 2007) [No textbook; there will be a small fee for photocopied materials.] Course information
Math 203, Calculus III (fall 2008) [Text: Multivariable Calculus, McCallum et al, 4th edition, Wiley]
Math 110, Explorations in Algebra (fall 2008) [No textbook; $10 fee for photocopying.]

Permutationally invariant codes for quantum error correction, with Mary Beth Ruskai, Linear Algebra and its Applications 392 (2004), pp. 255-288; preprint available at http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0304153.
Looking for difference sets in groups with dihedral images, with Emily Moore, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 28 (2003), pp.45-50.
Quantum error correction: classic group theory meets a quantum challenge, Am. Math. Monthly, vol. 108 (2001), pp.

Ruling out (160, 54, 18) difference sets in some nonabelian groups, with Jason Alexander, Rajilakshmi Balasubramanian, Jeremy Martin, Kimberly Monahan and Rubina Sen, Journal of Combinatorial Designs, vol. 8 (2000), pp. 221-231.

Difference sets in groups of order 4p^4, in Groups, Difference Sets and the Monster, edited by K.T. Arasu et al, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 1996.

Looking for difference sets when G = D_10 X (Z_2)^3 or G/N = Z_5 X Z_5, with Alexander, Balasubramanian, Martin, Monahan and Sen, 1995. [See REU 1994 below]

Undergraduate Programs and Courses in the Mathematical Sciences: CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004, a report by the Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics of the Mathematical Association of America, written with William Barker, David Bressoud, Susanna Epp, Susan Ganter and Bill Haver, MAA 2004.
Laboratories in Mathematical Experimentation: A Bridge to Higher Mathematics, Springer, New York, 1997. (Projects for a sophomore course in mathematical investigation; written by the mathematicians and statisticians of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Mount Holyoke College)
Do we need prerequisites? (with Donal O'Shea), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, May 1997.
Calculus in Context (with James Callahan, et al), W.H. Freeman, 1995.
Rates of Change: Modelling Population and Resources (with Eva Paus), Sloan New Liberal Arts Monograph, 1992.
Case Studies in Quantitative Reasoning (with Robert Schwartz, Sloan New Liberal Arts Extended Syllabus, 1990.

Difference sets in non-abelian groups (1994): Jason Alexander '95 (Lewis and Clark College), Rajalakshmi Balasubramanian '96 (Mount Holyoke College), Jeremy L. Martin '96 (Harvard University), Kimberly Monahan '95 (College of the Holy Cross), Ashna Rubina Sen '96 (Mount Holyoke College).
Difference sets (2000) --- the parameters (288, 42, 6) and (96, 20, 4): Juliana Belding '01 (Bryn Mawr College), Elizabeth G. Carver '01 (Georgia Southern University), Umut Gursel '01 (Mount Holyoke College), Peter O. Johnston '01 (Colorado College), Richard Lassow '01 (St. Olaf College), Jenna Nichols '01 (Mount Holyoke College), Laura Steuble '01 (Mount Holyoke College).

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