William Farr - Associate Professor

NSO 2006 For more information about me, see my professional home page.

Areas of research and educational interest

• Bifurcation theory, expecially in chemical and fluid systems with symmetry.
• Use of technology in teaching. Here is a link to a list of related Web resources.
• Using Maple in calculus. Here is a link to some sample materials used at WPI in calculus as well as the ftp site for the CalcP package of Maple programs for calculus.

Links to interesting WWW sites.

• MIT's Maple home page.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• The Policy.Net server dealing with political issues. Has information on the Senate and the House of Representatives.
• The Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics at Simon Fraser University.
• The Stat/Math Center at Indiana University.
• The Index to Multimedia Information Sources.
• The Chaos Group.
• The Interactive Online Geometry Gallery at the University of Minnesota.
• The MathWorks Math Gallery, a collection of pictures and animations.
• A WWW gateway to NIST's Guide to Available Mathematical Software