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:

ball 
The Math Department TA Program Pages
    
ball  Undergraduate Resources: Math Links for Information and Fun
                                                                                  
ball  Academic Year 2009 - 2010: On sabbatical
                                                            

Math 1011Q: Introductory College Algebra and Mathematical Modeling
Course Coordinator Webpage - Spring 2009

This course page contains an Instructor Resources folder, Course Syllabus, and a Handouts folder valid for the academic year 2009 - 2010.
Eli Glatt is the course coordinator for Math 1011Q during my sabbatical leave.
For updated exam dates and other class news please see Eli Glatt's course coordinator page.

ball   Selected Past Course Web Pages:  Math 108QC: Mathematical Modeling in the Environment  -  Spring 2007
                                                           Math 321: An Introduction to Homological Algebra  -  Spring 2008
                                                           Math 2210: Applied Linear Algebra - Spring 2009

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  Editorial Board Member: International Electronic Journal of Algebra             

ball  Curriculum Vitae and Publications

ball  Commutative Algebra Links


Books:

ball    Strange Attractors:  Poems of Love and Mathematics
       Editors: Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney
       A K Peters  Ltd., 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
      Kluwer Academic Publishers
      MAIA 520, 2000

ball   Commutative Coherent Rings
      Sarah  Glaz
      Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1371
      First printing 1989, Reprinted 2007. Available online at  Springerlink.com
      Review:  Math Reviews 90f:13001


Recent Articles:

ball  The Gaussian Properties of Total Rings of Quotients (with Silvana Bazzoni),  Journal of Algebra 310 (2007), 180 - 193,  pdf file
ball  Prufer Rings (with  Silvana Bazzoni), Multiplicative Ideal Theory in Commutative Algebra, Springer (2006), 55 - 72, pdf file
ball  The Weak Dimensions of Gaussian Rings, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005), 2507 - 2513, pdf file
ball Prufer Conditions in Rings With Zero-Divisors,  CRC Press Lecture Notes in Pure Appl. Math. 241 (2005), 272 - 282, pdf file
ball  Controlling the Zero-Divisors of a Commutative Ring, Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes in Pure Appl. Math. 231 (2002), 191-212
ball  Homological Characterizations of Rings: The Commutative Case, The Concise Handbook of Algebra, Kluwer Publ. (2002), 505-508
ball  Finite Conductor Properties of R(X) and R<X>, Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes in Pure Appl. Math. 220 (2001), 231 - 250
ball  Gaussian Ideals and Dedekind-Mertens Lemma, (with Alberto Corso), Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes in Pure Appl. Math. 217 (2001), 131 - 144
ball  Finite Conductor Rings, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 2833 - 2843


 Poetry:


StrangeAttractorsCover       Do you love "mathematical" poems?  If the answer is yes, you are in for a treat!  Strange Attractors is out !
       The volume contains over one hundred and fifty mathematical love poems collected and edited by Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney.
      
       Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics
       Editors: Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney
       A K Peters Ltd., 2008
      
       Table of Contents
      
       Links to:
       A few previews
       Ratings on amazon.com book site
       Reviews on A K Peters book site

      


 
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
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: Spring 2009, Sarah Glaz