Lori McDonnell's Homepage
About Me
Welcome to the homepage of Lori McDonnell. I recently received my PhD from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. I studied commutative algebra under the direction of Tom Marley.
In particular, I'm interested in Hilbert-Samuel and Hilbert-Kunz functions of zero-dimensional ideals.
Links to Some of My Work
You can access my CV here .
A description of my research and teaching philosophy .
A Theorem of Hochster and Huneke concerning Tight Closure and Hilbert-Kunz Multiplicity - this gives
a mostly self-contained proof of a theorem of Hochster and Huneke characterizing the Hilbert-Kunz Multiplicity in terms of tight closure.
A Note on a Conjecture of Watanabe and Yoshida , to appear in Communications in Algebra
Contact Info
Office: 232 Avery Hall
Phone: 472-8038
Email: s-lmcdonn1@math.unl.edu
The best way to contact me is through email.
Teaching
FALL 2006 :
Math 101 College Algebra
SPRING 2007 : Math 203 Contemporary Math
SUMMER SESSION II 2007 : Math 203 Contemporary Math
FALL 2007 : Math 101 College Algebra
SPRING 2008 : Math 203 Contemporary Math
FALL 2008 : Math 102 Trigonometry
FALL 2009 : Math 103 College Algebra and Trigonometry
FALL 2010 : Math 106/198: Calculus 1 Recitation/Math Excel
SPRING 2011: Math 107/198: Calculus II Recitation/Math Excel
SUMMER 2011: Math 107: Calculus II
Current course materials can be found on
Blackboard.
Office Hours Summer 2011
MWR 12:15-1:30pm and by appointment
My Schedule
Some Fun Links
UNL's Math Department
The University of Akron My alma mater.
Wolfram Mathworld
Cnn.com Read the news.
Thanks for visiting!