Edward S. Thomas
Photos from May, 2009 Graduation. That's Jody Lewin, Tiffany Fazzone,Lawrence Khan and the Munshi family
And, here is Daisy Munshi receiving a special award from the Department
Fall, 2009, webpages....
Here's MAT 311 ODEs
And here we go with MAT 412 Complex Analysis
Edward S. Thomas is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics at
the University at Albany. You can contact him at: et392@math.albany.edu.
If you don't have other pressing matters and you want to keep going....read on!
His mathematical interests include dynamical systems, the dynamics of
smooth flows, and, in recent years, discrete dynamics with applications to
difference equations.
Thomas received his Ph. D. in Mathematics from the University of California
at Riverside, taught for five years at the University of Michigan, and has been at
Albany since 1969... a long time. Here is a
bite size CV.
His most recent Ph. D. students are:
- Deborah Lawrence, who is
Associate Professor and former Head of the Mathematics Department at Russell Sage
College, and
- Steven Bourgault, who is a
Research Mathematician with MapInfo.
A long time ago, as a Visiting NASA Scientist at Johnson Space Center, Houston, he was
involved in exercise countermeasure studies aimed at reducing
muscle-mass loss in prolonged microgravity environments. That project was handed over to the Russians,
while, regrettably, Thomas himself continues to lose muscle
and gain mass at an alarming rate.
ATTENTION MATH NERDS...here is a link with some information about life after mathematics
One of Thomas's principal stress-reducing ( or should that be stress-inducing ?) activities is
technical rock-climbing. Below is a recent shot of the overhanging "Triple Bulges"
( a name that refers to characteristic features of the climb, although it certainly could apply to Thomas himself )
For some reason, the horizon is very often tilted the wrong way in this shot. I think it's because photographer/belayer is
usually working quickly...multi-tasking, you know?... and tends to get the tree vertical, when in fact, it leans out
from the cliff. Next, a picture taken in June, 2007, of a thin climb on the "Mental Block" in the Gunks. And finally a picture of a seacliff climb
called Terrier's Tooth in Cornwall, England taken last summer.
Here is a second page that contains a variety of links.
MATH AND AFTERMATH
(This site was last tweaked in August, 2009.)