Catalin Zara Professor, Department of Mathematics UMass Boston CV: [PDF file]	Email: catalin.zara at umb dot edu Office: Wheatley 03-154-15 (click on image for larger map)

Office hours: TuTh 3:00pm - 3:50pm in W02-0201 TuTh 5:30pm - 6:00pm in W03-0154-15 Other times by appointment. Spring 2024 classes: MATH 458-001: Theory of Numbers MATH 242-001: Multivariable and Vector Calculus MATH 240-001: Multivariable Calculus MATH 490-003: Thesis Research [More classes] Selected comments from students

Recent publications: (Titles in bold: published or accepted. Others: posted or submitted) 2021 Balance Weighing - Variations on a Theme. Mathematics Magazine , Volume 94, 2021 - Issue 5. [E. Bolker, S.A. Feuer, and C. Zara] [Journal] 2020 Beyond Cohomological Assignments. Advances in Mathematics, Volume 363, 25 March 2020, 106976. [V. Guillemin, S. Tolman, and C. Zara] [Journal] 2016 The Prouhet-Tarry-Escott Problem and Generalized Thue-Morse Sequences. J. of Combinatorics 7 (2016) no. 1, 117 -- 133. [E. Bolker, C. Offner, R. Richman, and C. Zara] [ArXiv] [Journal] Tolerance Distances on Minimal Coverings. IEEE 46th International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic. ISMVL 2016, May 18-20, 2016, Sapporo, Japan, pp. 125--130. [C. Zara and D. Simovici] [Journal] Polynomial Assignments for Bott-Samelson manifolds. arXiv:1603.00103. [G.S. Seal and C.Zara] [ArXiv] 2014 Polynomial Assignments. Indag. Math. 25 (2014), no. 5, 992--1018. [V. Guillemin, S. Sabatini, and C. Zara] [ArXiv] [Journal] Modeling how windfarm geometry affects bird mortality. arXiv:1408.1580. [E. Bolker, J. Hatch, and C. Zara] [ArXiv] 2013 Equivariant K-theory of GKM bundles. Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 43 (2013), no. 1, 31-45. [V. Guillemin, S. Sabatini, and C. Zara] [ArXiv] [Journal] Balanced Fiber Bundles and GKM Theory. Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2013, no. 17, 3886-3910. [V. Guillemin, S. Sabatini, and C. Zara] [ArXiv] [Journal] Cardinality of Balls in Permutation Spaces. arXiv:1303.0016. [L.P. Dinu and C. Zara] [ArXiv] [More publications]