Jim Dudziak
Visiting Associate Professor
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Statistics and Probability
Lyman Briggs College
Michigan State University
 
 

Memberships American Mathematical Society Mathematical Association of America Association of Symbolic Logic

Contact
Lyman Briggs College, E 34 Holmes Hall
or Department of Statistics and Probability, Wells Hall
Phone:          (517) 353-4599 (LBS)
Fax:              (517) 432-2758 (LBS)
Department: (517) 353-6480 (LBS) (517) 353-7815(Statistics)
Email:           dudziak@msu.edu

Education
B.S. Mathematics, California Institute of Technology 1976 
Ph.D. Mathematics, Indiana University at Bloomington, 1981

Scholarly Interests
Function Algebras, Rational Approximation in the Complex Plane, and Subnormal Operators. With undergraduates, Actuarial Science and various aspects of Logic and Geometry.

Teaching Interests and Classes Taught:

• Actuarial Mathematics (Single Life Contingencies, Multiple Life Contingencies, Multiple Decrement Theory, Ruin Theory, Loss Models, Credibility Theory)
• Mathematical Analysis at Various Levels
• Seminar Courses: Hilbert's Third Problem, Combinatorial geometry, Computational Geometry
• Calculus, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Discrete Structures

Special Events

• Presenter at Grandparents University, Michigan State University, June 2007
• Organizing Committee of the Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, October 2007
• MAA Workshop "Wall Street Needs Rocket Scientists", St. Mary's College 2006
• MAA Workshop "Statistical Ratemaking", Tulane University 2004
• Keynote Speaker at Math Awareness Week, Western Michigan MAA Chapter 1995
• Organizer of Pi Mu Epsilon Club and "coffee talks" at Bucknell University

Selected Publications

• J Dudziak (2007). The Vitushkin Conjecture for Removable Sets. Research Monograph. Forthcoming. [Book Description]
• J Dudziak, TW Gamelin, P Gorkin (2000). Hankel Operators on Bounded Analytic Functions. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 352(1): 363-377.
• J Conway, J Dudziak (1995). Pointwise Bounded Limits of Rational Functions on the String of Beads. Proceedings of the Royal Irish
  Academy 95A (1): 29-38.
• J Conway, J Dudziak (1990). Von Neumann Operators are Reflexive. Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik 408: 34-56.
• J Dudziak (1989). A Weak-Star Rational Approximation Problem
  Connected with Subnormal Operators. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 107 (3): 679-686.
• J Dudziak (1987). Isometrically Removable Sets for Functions in the
  Hardy Space are Polar. Michigan Mathematics Journal 34 (2): 267-273.
• J Dudziak (1986). A Note on a Theorem of Ahern and Sarason. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 98 (1): 38-40.
• J Dudziak (1986). The Minimal Normal Extension Problem for
  Subnormal Operators. Journal of Functional Analysis, 65 (3): 314-338.
• J Dudziak (1983). Spectral Mapping Theorems for Subnormal
  Operators. Journal of Functional Analysis 56 (3): 360-387.