Christian Zorn's Math Department Page


Zassenhaus Assistant Professor
630 Mathematics Tower
231 18th Avenue
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 688-8733 (Office)
czorn@math.ohio-state.edu
 

A brief bio.

At present, I am one of the Zassenhaus Assistant Professors at the Ohio State University's Mathematics Department. In May 2007, I graduated from the University of Maryland's Mathematics Department. I wrote my dissertation in the area of representation theory for p-adic symplectic groups and metaplectic under the guidance Prof. Stephen Kudla. I came to Maryland by way of the University of California, Santa Cruz where I received my B.A. in mathematics (June, 2002). Before attending UCSC, I also spent two years at Laney Junior College (Oakland, CA). For those of you that might have known me in a previous lifetime (e.g. high school), I attended high school at Chatfield Senior High in Jefferson County, CO.

My areas of interest in mathematics include the representation theory p-adic groups (and their covering groups) as well as automorphic forms. I present I am studying the non-vanishing of local theta lifts for Sp(4,F) and Mp(4,F) to various orthogonal groups using the local doubling integral. In the realm of automorphic forms, I am interested in integral representations of various L-functions for various split groups.

Also, I got married on June 23, 2007 at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Reston, VA. The bride's name is Colleen Courtney. She is originally from New Castle, Delaware and works as a consultant for a firm based in Northern Virginia. She is also finishing her M.B.A. this spring from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.


Current teaching schedule.

This section is primarily for any students in my class. I will endeavor to keep my contact information as well as the vital class information on here. If you think that there is something else I should add feel free to drop me a line (although please note that I do not post grades online, so if that is the information you seek, just email me).

My contact information....

Office: Math Tower 630
Office Phone: 614-688-8733
Email: czorn@math.ohio-state.edu
Office Hours:

  • Mondays--12:45-2:15pm
  • Wednesdays--4:30-6:00pm
  • Thursdays--10:30am-12:00n
  • or by appointment

If you are looking for course information from the previous quarter, click the following link:

For the Summer 2008 quarter, I will be working with The Ross Program at Ohio State. I will also be away from July 26-August 1 to attend the American Institute of Mathematics workshop Generalizing theta correspondences.


For the Autumn 2008 quarter, I will be teaching the following courses:

13300-2: Math 345--Foundations of Higher Mathematics--MTWR 0230P--ML (Mendenhall Laboratory) 0173

13512-5: Math 854--Introduction to Lie Algebras--MWF 0330P--UH (University Hall) 0090

Homework Assignments--This section is devoted to keeping a record of the problems that I assign at the end of each lecture. I may update it prior to class or immediately after I teach. If I forget and you need to know the problem set, just email me.

Math 345
Assignment Problems (Section.Problem #) Due Date
1 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 (just the truth table), 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.10 October 2
2 2.11, 2.14, 2.15, 2.17, 2.22, 2.23, 2.24, 3.1e-i, 3.2, 3.4 October 9
3 3.6a, 3.7a, 3.9b-e, 3.10, 3.11a-b, 3.12, 3.13b-h, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5 October 16
4 4.8ade, 4.10abdfg, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13a-b, 4.14, 4.22, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.5 October 23
5 5.6, 5.13, 5.14, 5.17c (just use induction), 5.19 October 30
6 10.1, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.13, 10.14 November 6
7 10.17, 10.19, 10.24, 10.25, 10.27, 10.32, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 11.10 November 13
8 11.15, 11.18, 11.20, 11.21, 11.23, 11.25 (no proofs), 11.26, 11.27 November 20
9 13.1, 13.3, 13.5 November 26
10 13.6, 13.7, 13.8, 13.9, 13.10 December 4

Math 854
Assignment Due Date
Assignment 1 (8 problems) October 15
Assignment 2 (9 problems) October 31
Assignment 3 (7 problems) November 14
Assignment 4 (7 problems) December 11

NEW!!!--10/24/2008--The following link contains a .pdf file with solutions to the Math 345 Exam 1: Math 345 Exam 1 Solutions

NEW!!!--11/20/2008--The following link contains a .pdf file with solutions to the Math 345 Exam 1: Math 345 Exam 2 Solutions

NEW!!!--12/03/2008--The following link contains a .pdf file of the final exam review handout distributed in class on 12/03/2008: Math 345 Final Exam Review

Important Dates:

Final Examination Dates: