John Jones - Vita

Employment

• Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2022-present
• Professor of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2008-2022
• Associate Professor of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1996-2008
• Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1999-2001
• Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1990-1996
• Malcolm and Minda Brachman Instructor of Mathematics in Honor of R. H. Bing, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1987-1990

Education

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1983-1987
• A.B., University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1979-1983

Honors and Awards

• Charles Wexler Teaching Award, for distinguished teaching of mathematics, Arizona State University, 1998.
• Teaching Commendation, from the Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning for excellence in the teaching of undergraduates, Harvard University, 1986.

Grant Support

• Topics in Iwasawa Theory, National Science Foundation, (PI), 1991-93, $41,725.
• Conference on Arithmetic Geometry with Emphasis in Iwasawa Theory; Tempe, Arizona; March 1993, National Science Foundation, (co-PI, PI Nancy Childress), 1993, $8,000.
• Implementation and Dissemination of the Harvard Consortium Calculus Materials , National Science Foundation (through University of Arizona), (local co-PI, local PI Matthias Kawski), 1993-96, 5 institution-total $804,778, ASU share $82,187.
• Revitalizing Undergraduate Number Theory,National Science Foundation (through Michigan Technological University, and then through Randolph-Macon College), (local PI), 1996-99, 2 institution total $79,542, ASU share $37,805.
• A Discovery Approach to Abstract Algebra, Arizona State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, (PI), 1998-99, $3051.
• Number Theory and the Scientific Method, ACEPT, (PI, Andrew Bremner Co-PI), 1998, $5000.
• On-line homework component / Business Math I and II, Arizona State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, (Co-PI, with PI Lance Ward, other Co-PI's Sharon Walker, Jay Abramson, and Scott Martin), 2001 - 2002, $7500.
• Web-Based Math Homework, National Science Foundation, (PI, Matthew Isom Co-PI), 2002-05, $149,984.
• Collaborative Project: A Comprehensive WeBWorK Problem Library (with Bill Ziemer, California State Long Beach University, and Jeff Holt, University of Virginia), National Science Foundation, PI, 2004-07, (3 institution total, $179,889), ASU grant $46,315.
• Collaborative Research: Updating the WeBWorK National Problem Library (with Jeff Holt, University of Virginia), National Science Foundation, PI, 2012-2015, (2 institution total, $323,579), ASU portion $162,303.
• Connections between curves, automorphic forms, and L-functions, National Science Foundation, PI, 2013-2014, $45,000.

Students

• Nancy Seguin, M.A., May 1996, Galois groups of irreducible tredecic polynomials.
• John Dollarhide, M.A., August 1996, Computation of the Mordell-Weil group on rank 1 elliptic curves using Heegner points.
• Brandon Baldock, M.A., May, 1998, A survey of techniques in cryptanalysis.
• Nathan Wilson, M.A., May, 2001, Attacks on the discrete logarithm problem.
• Andres Garcia, M.A., December, 2003, Elliptic curve primality proving algorithm.
• Joshua Kantor, B.S. May, 2003, Hecke operators and the Hecke algebra.
• Sean Larsen, Ph.D., co-chair with Marilyn Carlson, May, 2004, Supporting the guided reinvention of the concepts of group and isomorphism: a developmental research project.
• Phong Chau, M.A. May 2004.
• John Kerl, M.A. May 2005, Curves and codes.
• Annette Spyker, B.S. May 2006, Success rates of the Rabin-Miller test for known composite numbers.
• Helene Nehrebecki, M.A. May 2006.
• Eric Driver, Ph.D. December 2006, A targeted Martinet search.
• Rachel Wallington, M.A. May 2004; Ph.D. May 2009, Number fields with solvable Galois groups and small Galois root discriminants.
• Chad Awtrey, Ph.D. May 2010, Dodecic local fields.
• Peter Price, M.A. May 2013.
• Andrew Altman, M.A. May 2014.
• Benjamin Carrillo, Ph.D., co-chair with Andrew Bremner, May 2019, On K-derived quartics and invariants of local fields.