Bill Martin

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Name: William J. Martin Position: Professor Office: SH305A Department: Mathematical Sciences Affiliated Appointments: Computer Science, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Institution: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Research

My papers and preprints. And some recent talks I've given.

I am a member of WPI's Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Research Laboratory.

Teaching

Here is an incomplete list of WPI MQPs (i.e., undergraduate theses) that I have advised or co-advised. Ocassionally, I add some ideas for potential future MQPs to this list.

Here is a recent draft of my PowerPoint presentation on codes and the compact disc. It's aimed at undergraduates who have seen basic linear algebra and have some imagination.

If you are interested in more general things, you may want to read about my teaching, including courses taught and pedagogical discussions.

For kids who want to have fun with math, here is my page for cool links to wonderful math stuff. I have finally transported my Modular Arithmetic Calculator from Winnipeg to Worcester. It still needs plenty of work, but it's useful for calculations by students such as those working in cryptography.

News

• "It's time to decide how quantum computing will help your business" Computerworld, May 2017.

Personal

2023 CV, in PDF format.

Research Talks Here and Nearby

MIT Combinatorics Seminar.

I am on the Steering Committee for the Northeast Combinatorics Network (NCN). We help universities in the northeast USA host Discrete Math Day, each of which is a one-day research conference in combinatorics. We also coordinate Summer Combo in Vermont.

Upcoming Research Conferences

• Discrete Math Day at URI, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Saturday September 29, 2018
• AMS Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, September 29-30, 2018
• Slovenian International Graph Theory conference, Lake Bled, Slovenia, June 24-28, 2019
• 27th British Combinatorial Conference, Birmingham, England, UK, July 29th to August 2nd, 2019

Recent Research Conferences

• International Workshop on Bannai-Ito Theory, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Nov 23-26, 2017
• 2017 CMS Winter Meeting University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, December 8-11, 2017
• Workshop on Coding and Information Theory Harvard University Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, April 9-13, 2018.
• AMS Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting Northeastern University, Boston, MA, April 21-22, 2018.
• Difference Sets Workshop Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, April 28 to May 4, 2018.
• The Japanese Conference on Combinatorics and Its Applications 2018 (JCCA 2018), Sendai International Center, Sendai, Japan May 20-24, 2018

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