Manish Patnaik

Professor, Faculty of Science - Mathematics & Statistical Sciences

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Science - Mathematics & Statistical Sciences
Email
patnaik@ualberta.ca

Overview

Research

Areas

Automorphic Forms, Number theory, Representation theory, Infinite-dimensional (Kac-Moody) Groups

Courses

MATH 322 - Graph Theory

Graphs, paths and cycles, trees, planarity and duality, coloring problems, digraphs, matching problems, matroid theory. Prerequisite: One of MATH 102, 125 or 127, and any 200-level MATH course. (MATH 216 or MATH 228 recommended.)


MATH 327 - Algebra I

Basic group theory: Groups, subgroups, normal subgroups, homomorphisms, quotient groups, coset decomposition, Example: Permutation group and general linear group; basic (commutative) ring theory: Rings, subrings, homomorphisms, ideals, quotient rings, modules over rings, submodules and quotient modules, fraction field; further group theory: Groups operating on a set, Sylow theorems. Prerequisite : One of MATH 226 or MATH 227. Note: Credit can be obtained in at most one of MATH 326 and MATH 327.


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Research Students

Currently accepting undergraduate students for research project supervision.