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Imre Tuba
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
San Diego State University, Imperial Valley
720 Heber Ave
Calexico, CA 92231
E-mail: ituba (e-mail accounts at SDSU are at mail.sdsu.edu)
Tel: (760) 768-5606
Office: East Faculty 101
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Teaching

Office hours: 3:35-4:35 MW, 5-6 Tu.

Here is degree information for math majors from Dr. Lesley, who is undergraduate advisor at the Mathematics Department in San Diego. See Dr. Verzi for advising if your major is mathematics in preparation for the Single Subject Teaching Credential or me if your major is mathematics.

Current classes:

Here are my web pages for some of the classes I taught in the past:


Research

My original research interests are in algebra, in particular braid groups and tensor categories. I wrote my Ph.D. thesis under the guidance of Hans Wenzl on low-dimensional simple and unitarizable representations of the braid group B3. I am also interested in bioinformatics, and as of lately, mathematics education.

Here is my mathematical genealogy graph generated by the Mathematics Genealogy Project and the Mathematics Genealogy Grapher. My Erdős number is 4.

I supervised an REU project in bioinformatics at SDSU summer 2009.


Papers, preprints and my CV

  1. Curriculum Vitae (updated Oct 2011)
  2. I. Tuba. Braid Representations and Tensor Categories. Ph.D. thesis, Sep 2000, 49 pages.
  3. I. Tuba, H. Wenzl. Representations of the braid group B3 and of SL(2,Z).  Pacific J. Math., 197, (2001), 491-510.
  4. I. Tuba. Low-dimensional unitary representations of B3.  Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 129, (2001), 2597-2606.
  5. I. Tuba, H. Wenzl. On braided tensor categories of type BCD.  J. Reine Angew. Math., 581, (2005), 31-69.
  6. E. Rowell, I. Tuba. Finite Linear Quotients of B3 of Low Dimension. J. Knot Theory Ramifications, 19, (2010), no. 5, 587-600.
  7. K. Brown, A. Faughn, N. Kent, and I. Tuba. Supporting beginning mathematics teachers with technology-based professional development. Presented at the 2011 Conference of the American Educational Research Association. 24 pages.
  8. A. Faughn, T. Felter, N. Kent, B. Pence, C. D. Thomas, and I. Tuba. Supporting mathematics teachers to increase retention. Proc. 33rd Ann. Conf. North Amer. Chtr. Int. Grp. for the Psych. of Math. Ed., (2011), 2036-2045.
  9. E.A. Dinsdale, R.A. Edwards, B. Bailey, I. Tuba, S. Akhter, K. McNair, R. Schmieder, N. Apkarian, M. Creek, E. Guan, M. Hernandez, K. Isaacs, C. Peterson, T. Regh, V. Ponomarenko. Multivariate analysis of functional metagenomes. Submitted to Nature Methods. 21 pages


STRIVE


I am the director of the Supporting Teacher Retention for Imperial Valley Educators project. The project's goal is to increase the retention of beginner mathematics teachers in their jobs by providing training in math content and pedagogy/teaching strategies so they are better equipped to meet the the challenges of their chosen profession. At the core of the program is a 40-hour intensive summer institute followed by 60 hours of activities throughout the academic year. The project is funded by a subgrant from the STIR (Supporting Teachers to Increase Retention) grant of the California Mathematics Project and runs 2007-2012. In the summer of 2009, STRIVE sponsored its own summer academy for 7-8th grade algebra students in the Calexico Unified School District. Here is our STRIVE website.

Personal interests