Jim Ruffo Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics SUNY-Oneonta

Office: Fitzelle 329
Phone: 607 436 3653
E-Mail: ruffojv-at-oneonta.edu

My schedule

Office Hours:
Monday-Friday 1-2

Summer 2009:

• Math 205: Discrete Math Structures

Spring 2009:

• Math 174: Calculus II
• Math 205: Discrete Math Structures
• Math 335: Modern Geometry

Fall 2008:

• Math 322: Modern Algebra and the Theory of Equations II
• Math 173: Calculus I
• Math 101: Math for the Liberal Arts

Spring 2008:

• Math 321: Modern Algebra and the Theory of Equations
• Math 335: Modern Geometry
• Math 101: Math for the Liberal Arts

Fall 2007:

• Math 173, Section 2
• Math 173, Section 6
• Math 101, Section 9

• Ph.D., Mathematics, Texas A&M University, 2007
• M.A., Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, 2004
• B.A., Mathematics, University of Rochester, 1996
• B.S., Physics, University of Rochester, 1996

Computational algebraic geometry; Flag varieties.
Want to know more? Here is my thesis.

• "Experimentation and conjectures in the real Schubert calculus for flag manifolds", with Yuval Sivan, Evgenia Soprunova, and Frank Sottile, Experimental Mathematics, 15, No. 2 (2006), 199-221. Link to computations.
• "Quasimaps, straightening laws, and quantum cohomology for the Lagrangian Grassmannian", to appear in Algebra and Number Theory.