University of Connecticut
Department of Mathematics

Sarah Glaz

Sarah Glaz

Professor
  Graduate Director for Instructional Development
 
Department of Mathematics 
University of Connecticut 
Storrs, CT 06269-3009 

Office: MSB 202
Telephone: (860) 486-9153
Fax: (860) 346-5284 

email: glaz@math.uconn.edux
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Ph.D. 1977       Rutgers University
B.A. 1972        Tel Aviv University
Place of Birth   Bucharest, Romania


Teaching:

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The Math Department TA Program Pages
    
ball  Undergraduate Resources: Math Links for Information and Fun
                                                                                                                                           

Math 1011Q: Introductory College Algebra and Mathematical Modeling
Faculty Contact Webpage - Spring 2012

green   Spring 2012 Course Webpages:   Math 2210-003: Applied Linear Algebra
                                                          
ball   Selected Past Course Webpages:  Math 5020: Introduction to Commutative Algebra - Spring 2011
                                                           Math 2110: Multivariable Calculus - Fall 2010
                                                           Math 108QC: Mathematical Modeling in the Environment - Spring 2007                                                    
                                                          
ball   2007-2008  University Teaching Fellow

ball   2004 UConn AAUP Excellence in Teaching Innovation Award


Research Interests:

Commutative Algebra; Homological Algebra; Non-Noetherian Ring Theory: Coherent and Related Rings; Noetherian Ring Theory: Cohen-Macauley and Related Rings; Mathematical Education.

ball  AGAMOCR 2007, University of Connecticut, June 11-15, 2007

green  Journal editorships:
         Editorial Board Member: International Electronic Journal of Algebra (IEJA) 
         Associate Editor: Journal of Mathematics and the Arts (JMA)                                                      

ball  Curriculum Vitae and Publications

ball  Commutative Algebra Links

ball  My Ph.D. Students:
        Su Liang - graduated in August 2010
        Ryan Schwarz - graduated in August 2011


Books:

ball    Strange Attractors:  Poems of Love and Mathematics
       Editors: Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney
       CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group (A K Peters), 2008
       heart  For more information see poetry section below

ball    Multiplicative Ideal Theory in Commutative Algebra:
      a tribute to the work of Robert Gilmer                                
      Editors:  James Brewer, Sarah Glaz, William Heinzer and Bruce Olberding
      Springer, 2006

ball   Non-Noetherian Commutative Ring Theory
      Editors:  Scott Chapman and Sarah Glaz
      MAIA 520, Springer (Kluwer), 2000

ball   Commutative Coherent Rings
      Sarah  Glaz
      Lecture Notes in Mathematics 137, Springer-Verlag, 1989
      Reprinted by Springer, 2007. Available online at  Springerlink.com
      Review:  Math Reviews 90f:13001


Recent Articles:

ball  Sarah Glaz and Ryan Schwarz, Finiteness and Homological Conditions in Commutative Group Rings, Progress in Commutative Algebra 2, De Gruyter (2012), 129-143
ball  Sarah Glaz, Poetry Inspired by Mathematics: a Brief Journey through History, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts 5 (2011), 171-183
ball  Sarah Glaz, The Poetry of Prime Numbers, Proceedings of Bridges Coimbra: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture (2011), 17-24
ball  Sarah Glaz and Ryan Schwarz, Prüfer Conditions in Commutative Rings, The Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering 36 (2011), 967-983
ball  Sarah Glaz, The Enigmatic Number e: A History in Verse and its Uses in the Mathematics Classroom, MAA Loci: Convergence, 2010 (DOI 10.4169/loci 003482)  
ball  Sarah Glaz, Poetry Inspired by Mathematics, Proceedings of Bridges Pecs: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture (2010), 35 - 43
ball  Sarah Glaz and Su Liang, Modeling with Poetry in an Introductory College Algebra Course and Beyond, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts 3 (2009), 123-133
ball  Silvana Bazzoni and Sarah Glaz, The Gaussian Properties of Total Rings of Quotients, Journal of Algebra 310 (2007), 180-193
ball  Silvana Bazzoni and Sarah Glaz, Prüfer Rings, in: Multiplicative Ideal Theory in Commutative Algebra, Springer (2006), 55-72
ball  Sarah Glaz, The Weak Dimensions of Gaussian Rings, Proceedings of the American Math. Society 133 (2005), 2507-2513
ball  Sarah Glaz, Prüfer Conditions in Rings With Zero-Divisors,  CRC Press Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Math. 241 (2005), 272-282
ball  Sarah Glaz, Controlling the Zero-Divisors of a Commutative Ring, Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Math. 231 (2002), 191-212
ball  Sarah Glaz, Homological Characterizations of Rings: The Commutative Case, The Concise Handbook of Algebra, Kluwer (2002), 505-508
ball  Sarah Glaz, Finite Conductor Properties of R(X) and R<X>, Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Math. 220 (2001), 231-250
ball  Alberto Corso and Sarah Glaz, Gaussian Ideals and Dedekind-Mertens Lemma, Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Math. 217 (2001), 131-144
ball  Sarah Glaz, Finite Conductor Rings, Proceedings of the American Math. Society 129 (2001), 2833-2843


 Poetry:

ball  Bridges Towson  2012

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         Poetry Day at Bridges Towson, Maryland, USA, July 25-29, 2012

ball  Bridges Coimbra  2011

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          Poetry Day at Bridges Coimbra, Portugal, July 27-31, 2011 

ball  A few recently published poems

   I am a number, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 1(2), 113-114, 2011 
   13 January 2009, Recursive Angel, May/June Issue, 2011
   Ghazal: Resonant Air, The Ghazal Page, December Solstice Issue 2, 2010
   The Enigmatic Number e, MAA Loci: Convergence, 2010

ball Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics

StrangeAttractorsCover             
       Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics
       Editors: Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney
       CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group (A K Peters), 2008
      
       Table of Contents
      
       Links to: 

       A few previews
       Ratings: amazon.com book site
       Reviews: Publisher's book site
       A Special Review: A review by J. M. Coetzee in the AMS Notices
  
 

For your pleasure here is a small sample from the collection:
The poem that started it all: 

Moon Compasses

by Robert Frost
                                                                                
I stole forth dimly in the dripping pause
Between two downpours to see  what there was.
And a masked moon had spread down compass rays
To a cone mountain in the midnight haze,
As if the final estimate were hers;
And as it measured in her calipers,
The mountain stood exalted in its place.
So love will take between the hands a face...


And two other poems:  from The Cyberiad  by Stanislaw Lem
                                   Calculus
  by Sarah Glaz

Links to a few other poems on Doug Norton's webpage

First year events:
 
To celebrate the publication JoAnne Growney organized a poetry reading, Mathematics and Love
at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Washington DC, January 7, 2009. The editors, publisher,
reading poets, and 100 or so mathematicians and poets in the audience, had a great time .

A lovely report on the January reading by Doug Norton, SIGMAA-ARTS coordinator for
the reading, Report and Reflections on "Poetry of Love and Mathematics: a Reading"
      
To celebrate the book's arrival to UConn and Valentine Day 2009, Sarah held a reading at
the UConn CooP, on February 12.

Terese Karmel wrote a Valentine Day article about the volume in the Willimantic Chronicle,
The mathematics of Valentine's Day.
      
April is National Poetry Month and Mathematics Awareness Month.
To celebrate the conjunction, on April 6, Sarah read from the anthology at 
The Litchfield County Writers Project, UConn Torrington Campus.

UConn Advance published an article, by Sherry Fisher, about the book on  April 13:
Mathematics and love coupled in professor's book of poetry.
                                                                                                                                                                       
coolbook Last Modified: Fall 2011, Sarah Glaz