Jeffrey Paul Wheeler

Graduate Teaching Assistant
The University of Memphis
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Room 373 Dunn Hall
3725 Norriswood Street
Memphis, TN 38152-3240

Office: 312 Dunn Hall
Telephone: (901) 678-1684
Fax: (901) 678-2480
email: jpwheelr@memphis.edu or: jeffreypaulwheeler@hotmail.com
University of Memphis Mathematical Sciences Graduate Students

U.S. News & World Report ranks Memphis' Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics program as 14th best in the country.

Jeff's research earns a first place finish in the Math and Computer Science division of the 20th Annual Student Research Forum at the University of Memphis.

With daughter Anna, 11 months, Easter 2007

Professional Information Section

Education

B.A. in Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (1990),

Miami's hockey team made it to the "elite eight" in the NCAA Hockey Tournament.

M.Sci. in Mathematics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2002),
Ph.D. in Mathematics, The University of Memphis (2008).

Four of the top five coauthors with Paul Erdos (ranked by number of joint papers) are currently at the University of Memphis [Sarkozy, Faudree, Schelp, and Rousseau]; two of which are on my committee [Sarkozy and Rousseau].
Memphis has the #2 team in NCAA Men's Basketball.

Research Interests

Combinatorics, Number Theory, and Algebra.

Curriculum Vitae

CV.pdf

Teaching Statement

Teaching Statement.pdf

Research Statement

Research Statement.pdf

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Papers Section

The Cauchy-Davenport Theorem for Finite Groups - submitted to the Integers 2007 Conference Proceedings and Integers - the Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory.
The Erdos-Heilbronn Problem for Finite Groups-to appear in Acta Arithmetica (PLEASE NOTE: this is not the final version; there are some technical details to work out.)
Existence of Constant Ratio Sequences - to appear in the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal.
Master's Thesis: The abc Conjecture
-as high as #4 when Googling the abc Conjecture
-featured on the abc Conjecture Homepage.

Works in Progress

"An Inverse Thereom for the Erdos-Heilbronn Problem for Finite Groups".
"Additive Properties of Two General Sequences".
"h-fold Convergence of Sumsets".

My Dissertation

Coming Soon.

Spring/Summer 2008 Conference Section

February 21-24: Chat Yin Ho Memorial Conference on Combinatorics and Groups; The University of Florida, Gainesville.
March 28-29: Paul Erdös Memorial Lecture Series; The Univesity of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
April 25-26: 46th Midwestern Conference on Graph Theory (MIGHTY XLVI); West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
May 16-18: International Conference on Interdisciplinary Mathematical Techniques [IMST 2008 -FIM XVI]; The Univesity of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
June 12-21 The Second International Workshop on Group Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics Peking University and Yunnan University, Beijing and Kunming, China
August 5-9: Building Bridges a conference on mathematics and computer science In honour of Laci Lovász; Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary.
August 11-15: Fete of Combinatorics and Computer Science an international conference on combinatorics and computer science; Keszthely at Lake Balaton, Hungary.
For a list of Discrete Mathematics conferences beyond those that I am attending, please see Doug West's website.

Course Section

Spring 2008

Math 2702 - Introduction to Proofs/Fundamentals of Mathematics

Syllabus
Class Notes - Logic
Homework #2
Homework #3

Math 4171 - Special Problems in Math - Galois Theory

Textbook: "Galois Theory" by Ian Stewart (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematics)

Fall 2007

Math 2702 - Introduction to Proofs/Fundamentals of Mathematics

Syllabus
Class Notes - Logic

Spring 2007

Math 2701 - Discrete Structures

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Problem Section

Existence of Constant Ratio Sequences
- Problem
- Solution (with Jonathan Hulgan) to appear in the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal
Simpsonized Jeff (visit Simpsonize Me)

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Photo Section
Daughter Anna's First Graph Theory Talk
Miami University - Middletown, February 2008