Douglas Ulmer — Service and Administration

“If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself” (The Dodecahedron in Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth)

Caution: “Scholars — not all of them, mind you, but the majority at any rate — know where the devil keeps his tail.” (Boccaccio's Decameron, VIII, 7)

Extramural service

I am on the editorial board of the Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux, an international journal focused on number theory and related fields. Please send strong papers!
I serve as the Treasurer of the American Mathematical Society

Projects

Here are a few projects completed at Georgia Tech that go beyond the day-to-day duties of chairing a large department:
- The School of Mathematics revamped of our lower-division courses, the mathematical core of most majors on campus. The reforms were rolled out in Fall 2015.
- Implementing a major post-doctoral program has been a School priority for many years. Although there is still much to do, we have made a good start with 16 post-docs in residence during the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years. We also received a 5-year NSF MCTP grant of $1.3M to support post-docs.
- We are proud of the School's annual newsletter ProofReader.
- The School's graduate program won major NSF support in 2011 via an S-STEM award.
- We're making a serious effort to reach out to alumni, in particular, by forming an Friends of the School of Mathematics (FoSoM) group. We organize roughly one activity per semester with FoSoM.
- We developed a partnership with Jilin University in northeastern China which includes a joint research center and student exchanges.
- In 2010, the School took over new space in Skiles, including two comfortable new seminar rooms and a suite of 10 office on the ground floor. Several other sizable faculty offices were created from classroom space and smaller offices.
- In 2009-10, the School developed a 5-year strategic hiring plan. The plan was revisited and reaffirmed in 2012.
And here are a few projects from my previous life at the University of Arizona:
- The VIGRE program at the University of Arizona
- The Southwestern Center for Arithmetical Algebraic Geometry
- The Integration Workshop at the University of Arizona

Writings

An overview of the GT School of Mathematics presented in 2010 to the newly formed Friends of the School of Mathematics.
A few slides on new trends in undergraduate education presented to FoSoM in 2012.
Slides for a faculty discussion on MOOC mania in the early days.
The first three sections of the self-study for our 2012 academic program review. They give a good summary of my vision for the School of Mathematics.
Slides for a presentation to GT grad students on the academic job market.
Report of the May, 2009 workshop on a proposed network program at NSF.
Slides from a lecture at “Dialog 04” about the Southwestern Center as an example of a large, multi-institutional project that uses NSF funding in innovative and efficient ways.
Slides from a lecture at the October, 2004 meeting of the AMS Committee on Education about Long-term efforts toward VIGRE goals at the University of Arizona.

Useful links

The University of Arizona Directory
The University of Arizona Campus Map
The University of Arizona Academic Calendar
The University of Arizona Factbook
The University of Arizona Handbook for Appointed Personnel (UHAP)
The Arizona Board of Regents Policy Manual
The wikipedia Overview of Tucson and the official City of Tucson web site

email: ulmer@math.arizona.edu

phone: 520-621-2868

offices: Math 109 & ENR2 S311