Joseph S. Miller
Assistant Professor
Office: MSB M323 (Storrs)
Phone: (860) 486-8381
Email: hidden
Department of Mathematics
196 Auditorium Road
UConn – Unit 3009
Storrs, CT 06269-3009
Teaching
  • Math 336: Tues, Thur 2:00–3:15 (MSB 117).
  • Office Hours: TBA, or by appointment.
Biography
I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from Cornell University in August of 2002 under the direction of Anil Nerode. At the same time, I was awarded a Masters Degree in Computer Science. I took a three year VIGRE Postdoctoral fellowship in the Mathematics Department of Indiana University in Bloomington, although I spent one of those years visiting Rod Downey at Victoria University in Wellington. I spent three years in a tenure-track position at the University of Connecticut. In the Fall of 2008 I will take up a tenure-track position at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
Research Interests
My research is in computability theory; I am particularly interested in problems that bring to light the nontrivial interaction between computable structure and classical mathematical structure. To this end, I have done work in Kolmogorov complexity and algorithmic randomness, reverse mathematics, and effective mathematics (primarily computable analysis and topology).
A point in every direction is the same as no point at all.
— The Pointless Man
Flanked by coauthors
Flanked by some of my colleagues at the Botanic Gardens overlook in Wellington. From left to right: Frank Stephan, André Nies, me, Liang Yu and Wolfgang Merkle.
Giving a lecture
A moment of silence during my lecture on Degrees of unsolvabilty of continuous functions in Heidelberg.
Walking across a stream
This South Island (New Zealand) trail forded several streams. Eventually my brother and I were forced to turn back because we were not prepared for the river crossing that came later.

December 17, 2008