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 L-functions for various split groups.

Also, I got married on June 23, 2007 at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Reston, VA. My wife'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 also finished her M.B.A. in the Spring of 2007 from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Additionally, my wife and I are expecting our first child in May 2009 (and no, we don't know if it is a boy or girl).


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:

  • Tuesdays--1:00-2:15pm
  • Wednesdays--4:45-6:00pm
  • Thursdays--10:30-11:45am
  • or by appointment

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


For the Winter 2009 quarter, I will be teaching the following courses:

Math 117--Survey of Calculus--MWF 1130A--BL (Boyd Laboratory) 0311

The recitation sections for this course are as follows:

Math 263A--Accelerated Calculus with Analytic Geometry III--MWF 01:30p--HI (Hitchcock Hall) 0031X

The recitation sections for this course are as follows:

(13079-0) Math 855--Introduction to Lie Groups--MWF 03:30p--CC (Central Classroom Building) 0240


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 117
Assignment Problems (Section--Problem #) Due Date
1 2.1--2, 5; 2.2--3; 2.3--13; 2.6--18; 2.7--10 01/15/2009
2 2.8--4, 21; 2.9--2, 15; 3.1--19, 41 01/22/2009
3 3.2--4, 31; 3.3--6; 3.4--18, 31 01/29/2009
4 3.5--15, 35; 3.6--29; 3.7--11; 3.8--15, 27 02/05/2009
5 4.2--9, 41; 4.3--21, 30; 4.6--16, 30 02/19/2009
6 4.9--7, 23; 5.1--3, 13; 5.2--9, 33 02/26/2009
7 5.3--13, 57; 5.4--3, 11; 5.5--19, 41; 5.8--15 03/05/2009
8 5.9--13; 6.1--9, 22; 6.2--9, 37 03/12/2009
Final Exam Practice 6.4--1-4, 9, 10, 13, 14; 6.5--9-16 N/A

NEW!!--The following is a link to the Math 117 Midterm Review sheet. The subsequent link connects to the Midterm Review answer key.

NEW!!--The following is a link to the Math 117 Final Exam Review sheet. The subsequent link connects to the Final Exam Review answer key. Please note that the answer key has been updated to include the solutions to the first set of sample exercises which involve graphing functions.

Math 263A
Section Problems
14.1 3-31 odd, 37-43 odd, 53-62; Hand-in: 3, 19
14.2 5-19 odd, 23, 27-37 odd; Hand-in: 9, 11, 15
14.3 1, 9, 13-39 odd, 45-63 odd; Hand-in: 21, 51, 55
Assignment 1 (due 01/15/2009) covers sections 14.1-14.3
14.4 1-5 odd, 11-19 odd, 23-35 odd; Hand-in: 13, 29
14.5 1-45 odd, 53; Hand-in: 5, 25, 39
14.6 1-43 odd, 47, 53; Hand-in: 9, 23, 41
Assignment 2 (due 01/22/2009) covers sections 14.4-14.6
14.7 1-19 odd, 27-33 odd, 37-45 odd, 49, 53; Hand-in: 7, 29, 45
14.8 3-19 odd, 23-33 odd, 39; Hand-in: 9, 19, 33
Assignment 3 (due 01/29/2009) covers sections 14.7-14.8
15.1 1-13 odd, 17; Hand-in: 3, 9
Assignment 4 (due 02/05/2009) covers only section 15.1.
15.2 1-29 odd, 33; Hand-in: 17, 27
15.3 1-27 odd, 31, 37-51 odd; Hand-in: 9, 25, 47
15.4 1-35 odd; Hand-in: 11, 25
15.5 1-17 odd, 21-25 odd; Hand-in: 7, 15, 25
Assignment 5 (due 02/12/2009) covers sections 15.2-15.5.
15.6 1-11 odd, 15a, 23; Hand-in: 7, 15a
15.7 3-17 odd, 25-37 odd, 43-47 odd; Hand-in: 11, 27
15.8 1-29 odd, 33, 35; Hand-in: 5, 11, 19
Assignment 6 (due 02/19/2009) covers sections 15.6-15.8.
15.9 1-15 odd, 19-23 odd; Hand-in: 3, 13
16.1 1-9 odd, 11-18, 21-25 odd, 29-32; Hand-in: 5, 23
16.2 1-21 odd, 25a, 31-43 odd; Hand-in: 9, 19
Assignment 7 (due 02/26/2009) covers sections 15.9-16.2.
16.3 3-23 odd, 27-33 odd; Hand-in: 5, 15
16.4 1, 3, 7-27 odd; Hand-in: 7, 15
Assignment 8 (due 03/05/2009) covers sections 16.3-16.4.
16.5 1-31 odd; Hand-in: 5, 17
16.6 1, 3, 11-16, 17-23 odd, 31-45 odd; Hand-in: 19, 35
16.7 1-27 odd, 35-43 odd; Hand-in: 7, 23
Assignment 9 (due 03/12/2009) covers sections 16.5-16.7.
16.8 1-9 odd, 13-19 odd
16.9 1-15 odd, 23-27 odd

NEW!--The following is a link to the Math 263A exam 1 review sheet in .pdf format. The following is a link to the corresponding answer key.

NEW!--The following is a link to the Math 263A exam 2 review sheet in .pdf format. It contains the concepts that may be contained on the exam as well as the answers to some even numbered book exercises that serve as good preparation. The answers on the review sheet were derived by the instructor; as such there may be some mistakes. If you think that one of the solutions is incorrect, please email the instructor with information that identifies the problem (section number and problem number) as well as your proposed solution. If it is deemed to be correct, the .pdf file will be updated and a section for the errata will be added to this webpage below.

NEW!--The following is a link to the Math 263A final exam review sheet in .pdf format. It contains the concepts that may be contained on the final exam as well as the answers to some even numbered book exercises that serve as good preparation. As with the previous review sheet, the answers in this review sheet may be incorrect. If you think that you have found such a solution, please notified the instructor by identifying the problem (section number and problem number) as well as your proposed solution. If it is deemed to be correct, the .pdf file will be updated and a section for the errata will be added to this webpage below.

NEW!--As per request, here are some links to the various forms of Math 263A midterms 1 and 2 in .pdf format:

Exam 1A Exam 1B Exam 2A Exam 2B

Math 855
Assignment Due Date
Assignment 1 (7 problems) February 6
Assignment 2 (5 problems) February 20
Assignment 3 (6 problems) March 6
Assignment 4 (4 problems) March 18


Important Dates:

Final Examination Dates:

NOTICE!!!--Math 263A does not meet at the date or time listed on the syllabus. This change was instituted before the start of the quarter, but the instructor was not informed until after the start of winter quarter classes.