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Cameron W. McLeman


mcleman@math.arizona.edu
Office Phone:  (520) 621-6896
Tucson, AZ 85719		
Citizenship:  United States



Education:

2002-2008 - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Ph.D. in Mathematics with a Minor in Linguistics, June 2008 (expected) 
Focus: Cohomology of Number Fields with Restricted Ramification
Advisor: Dr. William McCallum
Passed qualifying examinations:  August, 2003.
Passed comprehensive oral examination:  May, 2005.
Topic: Euler Systems and Class Numbers.
Passed language examination (French):  June, 2004.
Passed computer examination:  April, 2005.
Passed minor (linguistics) comprehensive examination:  July, 2006.


1998-2002 - Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 
B.S. in Mathematics with Honors, June 2002  
Thesis: -adic Dynamics and Formal Groups 
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Towse


Academic Honors and Awards:


Spr. 2006	 Galileo Circle Scholar
Sum. 2004	 VIGRE Fellowship
Sum. 2003	 VIGRE Fellowship
Spr. 2003	 VIGRE Fellowship
Fall 2002	 VIGRE Fellowship
2002		 Robert T. Borrelli Clinic Team Award for Outstanding Achievement
2001		 Robert T. Borrelli Clinic Individual Award for Outstanding Achievement
1998		 SIAM MCM Outstanding Accomplishment Award

Published Papers:

McLeman, Cameron and Little, Colin. ``Improved Computer Software for the Teaching of Ordinary Differential Equations.'' Proceedings of the 2nd International conference on the Teaching of Mathematics. John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
McLeman, Cameron. ``Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography.'' Paper prepared for ViaSat, Inc. Published internally as part of final report. Fall, 2002.
McLeman, Cameron, Joshua Greene, and David Rudel. ``Hexagonal Packing and other Real World Phenomena.'' UMAP Journal 20.3; Fall 1999: 287-297

Teaching Experience and Vertical Integration:

Research Assistant, Spring 2007: For ``NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars - Making Connections: Joint Analysis of School Mathematics Problems.''
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2002-Present. Courses taught through Fall 2006:
- College Algebra (x2)
- Precalculus
- Brief Calculus
- Calculus I
- Calculus II
- Linear Algebra (x2)
- Vector Calculus.
Fall 2006-Spring 2007: Organized and co-created the student-run Algebraic and Arithmetic Ask a Stupid Kwestion Seminar.
URA Supervisor, Summer 2006: Advised URA Alaina Sandhu on ``Arithmetic Derivatives and Cunningham Chains.'' (In preparation)
``Super TA,'' Spring 2006: Algebraic Number Theory II.
``Super TA,'' Fall 2005: Algebraic Number Theory I.
Senior Graduate Student Assistant for Graduate Integration Workshop (Summers, 2004-2006).
Middle school math workshop on Rubik's cube. Dec 1, 2003.

Funded Conference Attendances:

(Participant) Graduate Student Warm-Up Workshop for the AMS Summer Institute in Algebraic Geometry - Seattle, Washington, July 18-22, 2005.
(Participant) 2005 Arizona Winter School on Fundamental Groups in Arithmetic - Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 12-16, 2005.
(Participant/Speaker) 2004 Arizona Winter School on Number Theory and Physics - Austin, Texas, March 13-17, 2004.
(Speaker) 2nd International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics - University of Crete, Greece, July 1-6, 2002.
(Attendee) 5th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography - University of Waterloo, October 29-31, 2001.
(Participant) Combinatorial Aspects of Geometry and Topology - Rice University, April 6-8, 2001.
(Speaker) 6th SIAM Conference on Optimization - Atlanta, GA, May 10-12, 1999.

Selected Coursework: Algebraic Number Theory I and II, Algebraic Topology, Commutative Algebra, Elliptic Curves, Algebraic Geometry I and II, Arithmetic Geometry, Algebraic Coding Theory, Riemann Surfaces, Computational Linguistics.

Lectures/Talks Given:

Algebraic Number Theory II. Algebra and Arithmetic Ask a Stupid Kwestion Seminar. University of Arizona. Dec 7, 2006.
Algebraic Number Theory I. Algebra and Arithmetic Ask a Stupid Kwestion Seminar. University of Arizona. Nov 16, 2006.
Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (The Inaugural) Inter-science Colloquium, University of Arizona. September 19, 2006.
Using Golod-Shafarevich. Algebra and Number Theory Seminar, University of Arizona. September 5, 2006.
Class Field Towers: A Survey. Algebra and Number Theory Seminar, University of Arizona. May 2, 2006.
Galois Cohomology, I-IV. 4-part lecture series in Dinesh Thakur's Algebraic Number Theory Course. University of Arizona. February 20-27, 2006.
Abstract Nonsense. Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar, University of Arizona. February 15, 2006.
The Mathematics of English and the English of Mathematics. Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar, University of Arizona. November 30, 2005.
The Failure of Unique Factorization. Claremont Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar, Claremont Colleges. October 19, 2005.
An Introduction to Kolyvagin Systems. Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar, University of Arizona. March 2, 2005.
Perfect Rulers, Crazy Dice, and Complex Analysis. Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar, University of Arizona. December 8, 2004.
Herbrand, Stickelberger, and Thaine: The Annihilators. Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar, University of Arizona. September 15, 2004.
Golay Codes and their Application to Just About Everything. Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar, University of Arizona. April 14, 2004.
The Combinatorics of Newton Polytopes. 2004 Arizona Winter School on Number Theory and Physics, Austin, Texas. March 17, 2004.
Schanuel's Conjecture and Periods of Non-Trivial Dimension. Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar, University of Arizona. October 1, 2003.
-adic Dynamics and Formal Groups: The Quest for Unity. Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar, University of Arizona. January 23, 2002.
Improved Computer Software for the Teaching Of Ordinary Differential Equations. 2nd International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics, at the University of Crete in Hersonissos, Greece. July 2, 2002.
Hexagonal Packing and Other Real-World Phenomena. Sixth SIAM Conference on Optimization. Atlanta, GA. May 11, 1999.