Contact

  • MAIL
    DJ Wells
    Department of Mathematics
    University of Kentucky
    Lexington, KY 40506
  • OFFICE:
    806 Patterson Office Tower
    859.257.6817
    Office Hours MTWRF at 11:25am
    Other times by appointment
  • EMAIL: dwells@ms.uky.edu

Teaching

I have taught the following courses. Please note that the descriptions are not necessarily the official course names.
  • MA 109 College Algebra (S06, F06, F07)
  • MA 110 Pre-Calculus (S07)
  • MA 111 Intro. to Contemporary Math (S08)
  • MA 123 Elementary Calculus (Summer 08)
  • MA 162 Finite Math (Recitation leader S05, Summer 06)
  • MA 194 Recitation for Calculus II (F04, F05)

Curriculum vitae

This vita may or may not be current.

Mathematical Interests

I am interested in combinatorial aspects of polytopes, triangulations, posets, regular CW-complexes, flag-vectors, and cd-indices. In particular, I am studying a class of geometric opperations on the boundaries of polytopes and other regular CW-spheres that generalize the idea of bistellar flips on simplicial polytopes and how these opperations affect the flag-vector and cd-index. This research is being done with the help and guidance of my advisor Carl Lee.

Places I've Been (for conferences)

  • Raleigh, NC - AMS Spring Southeastern Meeting (Special Sessions on Rings, Algebras, and Varieties in Combinatorics and Applications of Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics) April 4-5, 2009 at North Carolina State University
  • Lexington, KY - 5th Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference March 27-29, 2009 at UKY.
  • Washington, DC - Joint Mathematics Meetings January 5-8, 2009
  • Kalamazoo, MI - AMS Fall Central Meeting (Special Session on Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching) October 17-19, 2008 at Western Michigan University.
  • Ithaca, NY - Billerafest in honor of my academic gradfather Lou Billera June 13–15, 2008 at Cornell.
  • Davis, CA - 4th Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference April 12-13, 2008 at UC Davis.
  • Bloomington, IN - AMS Spring Central Meeting(Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, Topological Combinatorics, and Interactions Between Them) April 5-6, 2008 at Indiana University
  • Murfreesboro, TN - AMS Fall Southeastern Meeting (Special Session on Combinatorial Enumeration, Optimization, Geometry, and Statistics) November 3-4, 2007 at Middle Tennessee State University
  • Cincinnati, OH - AMS Fall Central Meeting (Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics) October 21-22, 2006 at the University of Cincinnati