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Kurt Ludwick, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Salisbury University
Salisbury, MD
I
joined the SU faculty in 2001 as an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science. In August, 2001,
I graduated from Temple
University in Philadelphia, PA
with a Ph.D. in Mathematics.
Prior to that, I received an M.A. in Mathematics (also from Temple
University) in May, 1997. Prior to prior to that, I graduated from Penn State
University in May, 1994, with a B.S. in Mathematics.
My primary mathematical interests are number theory and
combinatorics. My dissertation ("The Survival of
Modularity Under Congruence Restrictions") dealt with modular
forms, which are complex-valued functions with special properties which make them
useful in analytic number theory.
Since coming to SU, I've found many ways to occupy the free time I
don't have. For example, I serve as co-chair of the Eastern
Shore High School Mathematics Competition, coordinator of the
department's Math 155 common final exam, and until last year I was the
director of the Math/CS
Tutoring Program (currently directed by Dr. Don Spickler).
Additionally, I serve on the University Senate as well as the Academic Policies
Committee.
Other interests (i.e., stuff I do when I should probably be sleeping
or something)
- Music
I am an active member of the
Salisbury
Symphony Orchestra, the Salisbury Chorale, and the
Asbury
Orchestra.
Also, I am a
member of the SU-faculty band
Pugsly.
(The photo of me on this page is from a Pugsly gig -- not from a
calculus lecture, as you may have guessed. Don't feel bad; everybody
makes that mistake.) Also, as of Fall, 2008, I am teaching a Math 190
course on Music & Mathematics.
- Theatre
Although I have not performed in the past few years, I have
been (and hopefully will again be) actively involved in local community theatre.
Most recently, I was a cast member of the
Salisbury Community
Players' 2005 production of "You
Can't Take It With You". Less recently, I was in the casts of
The
Mouse That Roared" (2004),"How
to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (2004), "My Three
Angels" (2002) and "Lie, Cheat and Genuflect" (2002).
Offstage, I was rehearsal assistant for "An
Inspector Calls" (2004).
- Film
In addition to my theatrical endeavors, I have somehow become
involved in locally produced independent films. I had a small
part in "7even Days", an SU student film which was written and
directed by Josh Chamberlain
and Justin Szech. More recently, I am "Deputy
Allen" in the locally produced Dimension 5
Productions film "The
Lumberjack of All Trades".
I'll wrap this up with a few of my favorite math-related quotes and
one-liners. Enjoy!
- "If the human brain were so simple that we
could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."
- Emerson M. Pugh
- "Life is an even-numbered problem."
-- Dr.
E. Lee May, Jr.
- "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into
theorems."
-- Paul Erdös
- ``Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a
computer.
Art is all the rest.'' -- Donald E. Knuth
- "Everything I say is a lie. Except that. And that. And that.
And that. And that. And that. And that. And that." -- Peter
Griffin ("Family Guy")
- An engineer thinks that his equations are an approximation to
reality. A physicist thinks reality is an approximation to his
equations. A mathematician doesn't care.
- The most important thing to remember about statistics is that
79.2535% of them are just made up out of thin air.
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