Present teaching

• Long-Term Actuarial Mathematics I Math 4045 (fall 2024)
• Long-Term Actuarial Mathematics II Math 4046 (spring 2025)

Actuarial science

• Actuarial Science Flyer here.
• Capstone credit for summer actuarial internships.
• Flowchart for Actuarial Scince Concentration for 2019.
• Advice for students in or considering the actuarial science concentration (2/2022).
• Course Advice actuarial exams (8/2023).
• Advice from LSU alumna, Winnie Sloan, ACAS and recent alumnus Taylor Daigle: Success in the Actuarial Concentration: A College Timeline (written August 2018).

Mathematics and a second discipline: Finance, asset management

• Mathematics and a Second Discipline:Finance, Asset. Management Flyer here.
• Program for Mathematics and a Second Discipline: Finance, Asset Management.
• Prof. Ogunc's presentation powerpoint for high schools.
• Aaron Cao's quant interview prep.

Career

• Roy Paul Daniels Professor	2013-present
  Professor, Louisiana State University	2000-present
  Chair, Department of Mathematics	2004-2010
  Associate Chair for Instruction, Mathematics	2003
  Associate Professor, Louisiana State University	1992-2000
  Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University	1987-1992
  Josiah Willard Gibbs Instructor, Yale University	1985-1987

Editorial

• Journal of Informetrics, editorial board

  2022-present

Awards

• H.M. "Hub" Cotton Award for Faculty Excellence recipient

  2012

Selected and recent papers

• Rearrangements of a conditionally convergent series summing to logarithms of natural numbers The College Mathematics Journal. To appear. Accepted version available here.
• Lawrence Smolinsky, Bernhard Klingenberg, and Brian D. Marx Interpretation and inference for altmetric indicators arising from sparse data statistics Journal of Informetrics 16 number 1 (2022) 101250.
• Lawrence Smolinsky, Daniel S. Sage, Aaron J. Lercher, and Aaron Cao Citations versus expert opinions: citation analysis of featured reviews of the American Mathematical Society Scientometrics 126 number 5 (2021) 3853-3870.
• Lawrence Smolinsky, Eugene Kennedy, Liuli Huang, Andrew Alaniz Social and Work Structure of an Afterschool Math Club Middle Grades Research Journal 13 number 1 (2022).
• Lawrence Smolinsky and Aaron Lercher Co-author weighting in bibliometric methodology and subfields of a scientific discipline Journal of Data and Information Science 5 number 3 (2020). doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2020-0021
• Lawrence Smolinsky, Brian D. Marx, Gestur Olafsson, and Amy Ma Computer-based and paper-and-pencil tests: A study in calculus for STEM majors Journal of Educational Computing Research 58 number 7 (2020) 1256-1278. doi.org/10.1177/0735633120930235
• Two theorems on ‘Polar coordinates and generalized h-type indices’ Journal of Informetrics 14 number 3 (2020). doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2020.101045
• Arbitrage opportunities in publication and ghost authors Journal of Informetrics 14 number 2 (2020). To appear. doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2020.101016
• Odds ratios and Mantel-Haenszel quotients Journal of Informetrics. Journal of Informetrics 13 number (2019)462-463.
• Lawrence Smolinsky, Gestur Olafsson, Brian D. Marx, and Gaomin Wang Online and handwritten homework in Calculus for STEM majors Journal of Educational Computing Research 57 (2019) 1513-1533. (2018) DOI: 10.1177/0735633118800808.
• Lawrence Smolinsky and Brian D. Marx Odds ratios, risk ratios, and Bornmann and Haunschild’s new indicators Journal of Informetrics 12 number 3 (2018) 732–735.
• Lawrence Smolinsky and Yigal Bander Using an actuarial science expert to prove future medicals Louisiana Advocates 23 number 7 (2018) 13-16.
• Discrete power law with exponential cutoff and Lotka's Law Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 68 number 7 (2017)1792–1795.
• Stephen J. Bensman and Lawrence Smolinsky Lotka's Inverse Square Law of Scientific Productivity: Its Methods and Statistics Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 61 number 7 (2017) 1786–1791.
• Aaron Lercher and Lawrence Smolinsky. Persistent value of older scientific journal articles Scientometrics 108 number 3 (2016) 1205–1220.
• Expected number of citations and the Crown indicator Journal of Informetrics 10 number 1(2016)43–47.
• Eugene Kennedy and Lawrence Smolinsky. Math Circles: A Tool for Promoting Engagement Among Middle School Minority Males Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 12 number 4 (2016)717-732.
• Lawrence Smolinsky, Aaron Lercher, and Andrew McDaniel Testing theories of preferential attachment in random networks of citations Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 66 no. 10(2015) 2132-2145.
• Lawrence Smolinsky and Lercher Aaron, Citation rates in mathematics: a study of variation by subdiscipline Scientometrics 91 number 3 (2012)911-924.
• with D.S. Sage, An explicit basis of lowering operators for irreducible representations of unitary groups Lithuanian journal of Physics 51 number 1 (2011)5-18.
• Stephen J. Bensman, Lawrence Smolinsky, and Alexander I. Pudovkin, Mean Citation Rate per Article in Mathematics Journals: Differences From the Scientific Model Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61 number 7 (2010)1440-1463.
• with Aliska Gibbins, Geometric Constructions with Ellipses Mathematical Interlligencer 31 number 1 (2009)57-62.
• Lawrence Smolinsky, Phoebe Rouse, George Cochran, and Jimmie Lawson, College Algebra Redesign at Louisiana State University FOCUS 26 number 6 (2006)34-35.
• with A. McDaniel, Lax Equations, Weight Lattices, and Prym-Tjurin Varieties in Acta Mathematica 181(1998)283-305.
• with A. McDaniel, The Flow of the G2 Periodic Toda Lattice in Journal of Mathematical Physics 38(1997)926-945.
• with A. McDaniel, A Lie Theoretic Galois Theory for the Spectral Curves of an Integrable System: II in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc 349(1997)713-746.
• with A. McDaniel, A Lie Theoretic Galois Theory for the Spectral Curves of an Integrable System: I in Comm. Math. Phys. 149(1992)127-148.
• with A. McDaniel, The topology of some spaces from Hamiltonian mechanics in Algebra and Topology 1990 (Taejon, 1990), 137--142,
• with Ki Hyoung Ko, The Framed Braid Group and 3-manifolds in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 115(1992) 541-551.
• with Ki Hyoung Ko, A Combinatorial Matrix in 3-manifold Theory in Pacific J. Math. 149(1991)319-336.
• Invariants of link cobordism in Proceedings of the 1987 Georgia Topology Conference (Athens, GA, 1987). Topology Appl. 32 (1989)161-168
• A Generalization of the Levine-Tristram Signature in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc 315(1989)205-217.
• Doubly Sliced Knots which are not the Double of a Disk in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc . 298(1986)723-732.

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