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Louis Zulli, assistant professor of mathematics, will talk about “Complex Numbers and Functions” 12:15 p.m. Wednesday in Pardee Hall room 227.
“Professor Zulli will give a very gentle introduction to some of the main characters who will appear in Math 345 — Complex Analysis this fall. The discussion should be accessible to all,” according to the math department.
Mathematics 345 is described as “An introductory course in the calculus of complex functions including the algebra and geometry of complex numbers, elementary mappings, complex derivatives and integrals, Cauchy-Riemann equations, harmonic functions, Cauchy’s Integral Theory, Taylor and Laurent series, residues.”
Zulli has mentored Lafayette students in intensive mathematics research, including Blerta Shtylla ’05 (Tirana, Albania), whom he supervised in the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates last summer. He accompanied her as she made presentations on the research at the Summer Undergraduate Research Conference in Mathematics at Ohio State University and the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
He has shared his research through more than a dozen talks and has published it in several academic journals, including Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, The American Mathematical Monthly, Mathematics Magazine, Houston Journal of Mathematics, Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, Topology and its Applications, and Topology.
He is a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews and a referee for Mathematics Magazine.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Zulli received the Outstanding Faculty Associate Award at Rice University and a Cornell University Hutchinson Fellowship.
A member of the Lafayette faculty since 1999, Zulli previously was visiting assistant professor of mathematics at Union College from 1996-1999 and G. C. Evans Instructor of Mathematics at Rice University from 1993-1996.
He earned a Ph. D. and M.S. at Cornell University in 1993 and 1989, respectively, and graduated summa cum laude with honors in mathematics from SUNY-Stony Brook in 1985.