Dr. John McSweeney




Department of Mathematics

The Ohio State University

231 W 18th ave

Columbus, OH 43210

Office: Math Tower (MW) 549

Office phone: 247-1997 (from campus phone: 4-1977)

email: mcsweeney at math dot ohio-state dot edu

About Me

I received my Ph.D. from the Mathematics Department at The Ohio State University in March 2009. My advisor was Dr. Boris Pittel. For Spring Quarter 2009 I will be a faculty lecturer for the OSU Math Department.

Research Areas: Combinatorial probability and its applications to population biology (coalescence theory) and computer science.

My CV (in .pdf format)

Research

Expected Coalescence Time for a Nonuniform Allocation Model, joint with Boris Pittel. Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 40.4, 1002-1032 (December 2008).

My research profile (Under Construction)

Teaching

Spring 2009: 3 sections of Math 151, Differential Calculus:

MWF 10:30-11:18 in EA160

MWF 11:30-12:18 in EA160

MWF 2:30-3:18 in UH 014



Past courses taught:

Winter 2009: Math 152, Integral Calculus

Autumn 2008: Math 151, Differential Calculus

Spring 2008: Math 415A, Differential Equations for Honors Engineering students

Winter 2008: Math 263A, Multivariable Calculus for Honors Engineering students

Autumn 2007: Math 162A, Vector Calculus and Infinite Series for Honors Engineering students

Summer 2007: Math 366, Discrete Mathematics and Applications

… and several other quarters of differential and integral calculus



Translations

Under the auspices of the ongoing “Reading Classics” working group here at Ohio State, I have translated several mathematical works from French and German into English. Here are a few (in .pdf format):

Hermann Weyl. Űber die Gleichveteilung von Zahlen mod. Eins (On the Uniform Distribution of Numbers mod. 1)

S. Banach and A. Tarski. Sur la Décomposition des Ensembles en Parties Respectivement Congruentes (On the Decomposition of Sets into Respectively Congruent Parts)

L. Kronecker. Zwei Sätze über Gleichungen mit ganzzahligen Coeffizienten (Two Theorems on Equations with Integer Coefficients)



French Pronunciation

I have put together a brief set of notes for native English speakers learning to pronounce French. I am not a linguist and I make no claim as to their accuracy, so use them at your own risk. A .pdf copy of the notes is available here.