JHR's home plate

John Rickert
Associate Professor of Mathematics

Office: G-215A, Crapo Hall
Phone: (812) 877-8473

Address:
Department of Mathematics
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Terre Haute, IN 47803

e-mail: john.rickert@rose-hulman.edu
My schedule is on-line.         I have pages for several of my classes.

Professional Background


I am an associate professor of mathematics at Rose-Hulman. I grew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, graduated from Hawthorne Jr. High, from Wauwatosa West High School in 1980, got my B.A. in Mathematics and Astronomy-Physics from The University of Wisconsin in 1984 and my Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1990.

My research interest is in diophantine equations, most recently dealing with Pell-type equations, and in restricted partition functions.

Coarse Information

During the winter term I am teaching MA275, MA478, and MA497.
During the fall term I a taught MA111, MA222, and MA496.

I spent academic year 1997-8 on sabbatical at Penn State University (where I had an office In McAllister Hall with windows!) did some work on partition functions and used this as a basis to get some ideas for the NSF-REU program that I worked in the summers of 1999 and 2001.
During the summer of 2009 I was at RSI- 2009. My e-mail address there is jrickert@mit.edu.

Other Interesting? Sites

Events Schedule for Rose-Hulman students
Contest 2008-2009 2009-2010
Alfred R. Schmidt
Freshman Mathematics Competition		 September 15, 2009 September, 2010
Virginia Tech Math Contest October 24, 2009 Fall, 2010
High School Mathematics Contest Saturday, November 14, 2009 Saturday, November 13, 2010
Putnam Competition Saturday, December 5, 2009 Saturday, December 4, 2010
Mathematical Contest in Modeling February 18-22, 2010 Februrary, 2011
Undergraduate Mathematics Conference March 26-27, 2010 March, 2011
Indiana College Math Competition IN MAA meeting, Franklin college
April 9-10, 2010
 Spring Indiana MAA meeting, Indiana Wesleyan
March, 2011
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