Vita for Michael Filaseta

Address:

Mathematics Department
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
 

Date/Place of Birth:

August 27, 1958
Fort Knox, KY

E-mail Address:   filaseta@math.sc.edu

Office Phone:   (803) 777-6589

Home Page URL:   http://www.math.sc.edu/~filaseta/


Education:

Ph.D. University of Illinois 1980-1984
B.A. University of Arizona 1976-1980


Professional Experience:

Full Professor, University of South Carolina (1995-present)
Associate Professor with Tenure, University of South Carolina (1989-1995)
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina (1984-1989)
Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Illinois (1980-1984)


Awards:

Distinguished Award of the Hardy-Ramanujan Society (joint with Ognian Trifonov), 1991
Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award, 1994
Commendation for Teaching (University of Illinois), 1984
University Fellowship (University of Illinois), 1980-1982


Grants:

National Security Agency (PI), Factorization of lacunary polynomials and Galois groups of Laguerre polynomials, joint with Douglas Meade, 2004-2006
National Science Foundation (PI), On the factorization of lacunary polynomials, joint with Douglas Meade, 2002-2005
National Science Foundation (Co-PI), SCREMS Grant, 2000-2003
National Security Agency (PI), Problems on the irreducibility of polynomials, 1998-2000
National Security Agency (PI), Finite differences and irreducibility techniques in Analytic Number Theory, 1997-1999
National Science Foundation (PI), Finite difference techniques and irreducibility theorems in Analytic Number Theory, 1994-1997
National Science Foundation (Co-PI), Computational equipment for Algebra, Combinatorics, and Number Theory, 1994-1996
National Security Agency (PI), Problems related to finite differences, fractional parts, and irreducibility, 1992-1994
National Science Foundation (PI), Gaps between k-free numbers, finite differences, and exponential sums, 1989-1991
USC Research and Productive Scholarship Grant (PI), Applications of sieve methods to irreducible polynomials, 1985-1986


Recent Talks:

Seminars, Colloquiums, and Conference Talks
(includes notes and slides since 01/1999)


Research Papers:

Publications
Preprints


Doctoral Students:

Brian Douglas Beasley, The distribution of powerfree values of irreducible polynomials, 1995
Ikhalfani (Junior) Solan, Norms of factors of polynomials, an extension of a theorem of Ljunggren, and the distribution of k-free numbers, 1996
Richard Lanier Williams, Jr., The irreducibility of a certain class of Laguerre polynomials, 2000
Angel Kumchev, Diophantine problems involving prime numbers, 2001
Martha Ann Allen, Generalizations of the irreducibility theorems of I. Schur, 2001
Travis Kidd, On the irreducibility of the Laguerre polynomials L_m^(m)(x), 2004

Current Doctoral Students:

Carrie Finch
Mark Kozek

Masters Students:

Janis Anderson Alexander, Irreducibility criteria for polynomials with non-negative coefficients, 1987
Melonie Ann Rodgers, Problems and results on irreducible polynomials, 1988
Angela M. Andrews, On the density of irreducible polynomials with coefficients 0 and 1, 1989
Jacklyn R. Pitts, On an irreducibility theorem of I. Schur, 1989
Grace M. De Ramos, Elementary approaches to a gap problem involving k-free numbers, 1989
Roger E. Rosenthal, Dirichlet's theorem for polynomials, 1989
Shannon McFaul Smith, An algorithm of Lenstra, Lenstra, and Lovasz, 1995
Patrick Wesley Harley, On a generalization of an irreducibility theorem of I. Schur, 1995
Gerald W. Baygents, Reducibility criterion in polynomials with non-negative coefficients, 1996
Brian Charles Hipp, A variation on a theorem of Ljunggren, 1997
James D. Blair, Determining the irreducibility of polynomials through the use of Newton polygons, 1998
Martha Allen, The irreducibility theorems of I. Schur, 1999
Michael Peretzian Williams, Eisenstein's criterion applied to mth order Bernoulli polynomials of degree m, 2001
Robert Murphy, Factorization of polynomials with small Euclidean norm, 2003
Manton Matthews, Jr., On the factorization of f(x) x^n + g(x), 2004

Current Masters Students:

None