Richard S. Laugesen
Publications
Vita
Graduate students and Postdocs
Recommended reading:
Mathematics for Human Flourishing (farewell address by MAA President Francis Su) andA View of Mathematics from Behind the Veil (by Robin Wilson)
Teaching
Current semester:Math 542 Complex Variables
Math 554 Linear Analysis and PDEs (basic info here)
Previous semesters:
Math
231 (Fall 2012),
Calculus for Engineers
Math 231 (Fall 2011)
Math 231 (Fall 2010),
Math 285 (Spring 2018),
Math 285 (earlier years)
(and blog on the textbook),
Math 286,
Math 347 Sec. C1,
Math 347 Sec. D1,
Math 425,
Math 441,
Math 442,
Math 461,
Math 488
(Scaling, Self-similarity and Intermediate Asymptotics),
Math 540,
Math 545,
Math 553,
Math 554 (old syllabus),
Math 556,
Math 561,
Math 595 (Frames and Riesz Bases in Harmonic
Analysis), Math 595 (Spectral Theory of Partial Differential Equations),
Math 598 (Preparing Future Mathematicians)
Spring 2013 - Graduate Professional Development Seminar
Book:
BIG Jobs Guide: Business, Industry, and Government Careers for
Mathematical Scientists, Statisticians, and Operations Researchers
by Rachel Levy, Richard Laugesen, and Fadil Santosa; SIAM, 2018
Lecture notes: Spectral Theory of PDEs
Lecture notes: Linear Analysis and PDEs
Lecture notes: Harmonic
Analysis
Interesting links: - The linear algebra behind Google
- Things my students heard me say in
Math 231
- Excellent math book: "When least is best:
how mathematicians discovered
many clever ways to make things as small (or as large) as possible" by
Paul J. Nahin
- Choosing a graduate program
Mathematics Department - Budget Dashboard (Spring 2018)
News item
about PI4 internships program
Software projects
IODE
(differential equations) with
Iode Faculty
Guide,
and
IPROM (probability).
Sage Applets by Bartłomiej Siudeja
(eigenvalues of the Laplacian, statistics, dynamical systems, calculus)
Contact Information
376 Altgeld Hall
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1409 W. Green Street (MC-382)
Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A.
For office hours, see my current teaching webpages above.
Telephone: 217-333-1329
Email: Laugesen@illinois.edu
My "official" homepage