Karl Mahlburg - Louisiana State University

Karl Mahlburg
Associate Professor 320 Lockett Hall Department of Mathematics Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Office Phone: (225) 578-1609

e-mail: mahlburg (at) math (dot) lsu (dot) edu

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Current Teaching

Fall 2017:

MATH 4158 (Foundations of Mathematics). This course will be administered online through Moodle, and is only accessible to enrolled students. Syllabus
MATH 3355 (Foundations of Mathematics). This course will be administered online through Moodle, and is only accessible to enrolled students. Syllabus
MATH 3903 Methods of Problem Solving.

See Curriculum Vitae page for archived teaching.

MATH 3903 and Problem-Solving at LSU

Click above for information on undergraduate mathematics competitions at LSU, including the Putnam Competition and Virginia Tech Regional Math Contest. Here you can find important dates, information about MATH 3903 (Fall only) and the Problem-Solving Seminar (held Wednesday evenings each Fall semester), collections of sample practice problems and other resources, and LSU's historical performance.

Recent Publications and preprints

(Updated April 2017) The following is a list of publications, submitted articles, and preprints from (approximately) the past year:

K. Bringmann, C. Jennings-Shaffer, K. Mahlburg, "On a modularity conjecture of Andrews, Dixit, Schultz, and Yee for a variation of Ramanujan's $\omega(q)$," submitted. arXiv
K. Bringmann, K. Mahlburg, A. Milas, "The Lusztig-Macdonald-Wall conjectures and q-difference equations," to appear in Contemporary Mathematics.
M. Di Nasso, I. Goldbring, R. Jin, S. Leth, M. Lupini, K. Mahlburg, "High density piecewise syndeticity of product sets in amenable groups," Journal of Symbolic Logic 81 (2016), 1555–1562. arXiv pdf
K. Bringmann, J. Lovejoy, K. Mahlburg, "A partition identity and the universal mock theta functions $g_2$", Mathematical Research Letters 23 (2016), 67–80. arXiv pdf
K. Bringmann, J. Dousse, J. Lovejoy, K. Mahlburg, "Overpartitions with restricted odd differences", Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 22 (2015), Paper 3.17, 16 pp. pdf

(Google Scholar profile; Author link on the arXiv)

See Publications page for full list of 32 refereed publications and 2 preprints.

Students

Current Graduate Students:

Richard Frnka - Ph.D. awarded May 2017
Dissertation: "Asymptotic formulae for unimodal sequences with congruence relations" ETD link
Irfan Alam - Expected Ph.D. 2019

Curriculum Vitae

Updated 2016

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