Welcome to Karl-Dieter Crisman's official webpage.
I am Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Gordon College, on Boston's North Shore. I teach a variety of math courses running the gamut from core courses to senior-level ones. I'm fortunate to have support from students through administration to:
- Be allowed to develop several truly interesting courses which are also inspiring to our students, such as a non-major course in the mathematics of voting and choice and a serious number theory course with a broad point of view (calculus to geometry).
- Conduct independent studies in areas such as Representation Theory and Lie Groups with talented students heading to PhD programs.
- Attempt needed innovations in core courses, including continued development of a truly conceptual one-semester calculus course, and a service-learning component in mainstream calculus.
- Work on mathematics as applied to voting - see these slides from an recent invited talk at a special session on this topic at the Joint Math Meetings.
- Math applied to music theory, particularly reinterpreting the geometric work of Callender-Quinn-Tymoczko in algebraic terms.
- Continued work on hyperplane arrangement invariants.
- This "Notebook" for courses of the Bridge or Transitions variety, for which I have received several requests.
- For on-campus viewers (only), a streamed video of a talk I gave in Faculty Forum as an (entertaining) introduction to the Math of Voting and why we might care about it.
I received my PhD in Mathematics from the University of Chicago; my thesis, "Chow Groups of Zero-Cycles Relative to Hyperplane Arrangements", was completed under the direction of Spencer Bloch.
Current research projects include:
More pedagogical work includes:
