Dr. Tom Langley's areas of expertise include combinatorics and algebra. His research activities cover symmetric functions, algebraic combinatorics, and cwatsets, a subset of binary space first discovered at Rose-Hulman in the 1980s. Prior to his career in mathematics, Dr. Langley earned degrees in electrical engineering and was an electrical engineer for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Ca. He is the editor of the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal, the longest-running publication of original undergraduate-only math research in the U.S.

Academic Degrees

  • PhD, University of California-San Diego, Mathematics, 2001
  • MA, San Diego State University, Mathematics, 1996
  • MS, University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering, 1989
  • BS, Rice University, Electrical Engineering, 1989

Awards & Honors

Research Interests

  • Algebraic combinatorics
  • Combinatorics
  • Symmetric functions
  • Algebra
  • Graph theory
  • Consulting mathematian, Algebraix Data Corporation, Austin, Texas, 2012
  • Electrical engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, 1989-93

Select Publications & Presentations

  • Langley, T., Liese, J., and Remmel, J., “Wilf Equivalence Under Generalized Factor Orders Modulo k,” Pure Mathematics and Applications, 23, 3, 2012
  • Langley, T., Liese, J. and Remmel, J., “Generating Functions for Wilf Equivalence Under Generalized Factor Order,” Journal of Integer Sequences, 14, 2011
  • Langley, T., Levitt, D., and Rower, J., “Two Generalizations of the 5/8 Bound on Commutativity in Finite Groups,” Mathematics Magazine, 2011

Teaching Interests

  • Discrete mathematics
  • Graph theory
  • Coding theory
  • Computability theory
  • Probability
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