- Office: LN 2218
- Office hours:
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- Ph. D. Students:
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Quincy Loney,
Summer,
2012
Thesis: Decomposition of Level-1 Representations of D_4^(1) With Respect to its Subalgebra G_2^(1) in the Spinor Construction
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Omar Saldarriaga,
Summer,
2004
Thesis: Fusion Algebras, Symmetric Polynomials, Orbits of Elementary N-Groups, and Rank-Level Duality
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Mike Weiner,
Spring,
1994
Thesis: Bosonic Construction of Vertex Operator Para-Algebras from Symplectic Affine Kac-Moody Algebras
Alex Feingold
Welcome to my website
Information about my current course Math 402: Modern Algebra II, Spring 2013
For information and the syllabus of my Spring 2013 course, Modern Algebra II, link to
Spring 2013 Math 402 Information.
Information about my current course Math 330-5: Number Systems, Spring 2013
For information and the syllabus of my Spring 2013 course, Math 330-5: Number Systems, link to
Spring 2013 Math 330-5 Information.
Information about my previous course Math 304-1: Linear Algebra, Fall 2012
For information and the syllabus of my Fall 2012 course, Linear Algebra, Section 1, link to
Fall 2012 Math 304-1 Information.
Information about my previous course Math 401: Modern Algebra, Fall 2012
For information and the syllabus of my Fall 2012 course, Modern Algebra, link to
Fall 2012 Math 401 Information.
Information about my previous course Math 404: Advanced Linear Algebra, Spring 2012
For information and the syllabus of my Spring 2012 course, Advanced Linear Algebra, link to
Spring 2012 Math 404 Information.
Squirrel Mail
Here is a link to the Department of Mathematical Sciences
Squirrel Mail login.
Here is a link to my page containing a number of interesting animated gifs,
some just fun, but some with real mathematical contents:
My animated GIFs Gallery.
Mathematical Sculptures by Alex Feingold
I have a strong interest in sculptures, especially those related to mathematics, and
I have made some in stone, bronze and wood. Here are links to webpages showing my work,
and links to the artists who have inspired and influenced me. You can also follow the
following link to an
Artist's Statement
which I have written.
From December 3 - 27, 2012, some of my sculptures were on exhibition at the
Art Mission, Prospect Street in downtown Binghamton.
From June 1 - July 27, 2012, some of my sculptures were on exhibition at the
Broome County Public Library on Court Street in downtown Binghamton.
One of my bronze sculptures from Fall 2010, a 12" diameter bronze torus (3,5) knot mounted on a bluestone
base over a spherical mirror, was selected for the
2011 Roberson Regional Art Exhibition,
and will be on display at the
Roberson Museum and Science Center,
located at 30 Front Street, Binghamton, NY, 13905, during
July 9 - October 16, 2011.
From September 1-30, 2010, some of my sculptures were on exhibition at the
Broome County Public Library on Court Street in downtown Binghamton.
From June 9-27, 2010, eleven of my kinetic sound sculptures will be on exhibition
in the lobby of the Know Theater, located at
74 Carroll Street, Binghamton, NY. This exhibition was selected to compliment their
current production, ``Black Comedy" by Peter Shaffer.
On September 4, 2009, 7 - 9 PM, in the lobby of the Downtown Campus of Binghamton
University, I exhibited 19 of my sculptures as part of the First Friday Art Walk. The
sculptures shown included many of my kinetic sound sculptures, some in the style of
Harry Bertoia, both bronze and steel examples, and some others based on knot theory. This was
my first solo exhibition, and I want to thank Jennifer Keegin, Associate Director of
Campus Life for Campus Activities, for her help in arranging this exhibition, and Prof.
Jim Stark for the use of his pedestals for the display of the artwork.
The 11th annual Bridges conference took place in the birthplace of M. C. Escher,
Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, July 24-28, 2008, with a Mathematical Art Public Activity Day
on July 29. The Bridges conferences are a literal bridge between mathematics, music, art,
architecture and culture, and include an exhibition for 2D and 3D mathematical art.
Four of my sculptures were submitted and accepted for the exhibition, but could not
attending conference so I am sent pictures of them. This link takes you to the list
of artists who participated in the exhibition, and includes links to pictures of their
work:
Bridges 2008 Artists.
The following link to the conference website has many interesting links to previous conferences,
and to mathematical art on the internet:
Bridges Conference 2008.
Two of my kinetic sound sculptures were in the Members Exhibition Dec. 7-28, 2007 at the
Art Mission in Binghamton, NY. Another bronze sculpture
of mine is part of their Members Exhibition Dec. 5-28, 2008.
One of my sculptures was exhibited November 1 - 4, 2007, at the Center Gallery at the
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, in an exhibition ``Rhythm of Structure: Beyond the
Mathematics", curated by John Sims as part of the conference
Knotting Mathematics and Art:
A Conference in Low Dimensional Topology and Mathematical Art. You can see pictures I took
of the pieces in the exhibition, and pictures I took at the conference, by following the link:
Knot Art Conference Pictures.
Four of my sculptures were exhibited May 3 - 24, 2007, at the
Altered Esthetics Gallery
in Minneapolis, MN, during their show ``Art For The Other Senses". A write-up about the
exhibition which mentions my kinetic sound sculptures can be found at the following link:
Altered Esthetics Exhibition in vita.mn story.
Kinetic Sound Sculpture
inspired by the work of Harry Bertoia.
Stone and wood sculpture projects
inspired by Helaman Ferguson.
Bronze metal sculptures
made as castings of earlier works in other media and by welding.
Steel and plastic sculptures
inspired by hyperbolic surfaces and the tensegrity sculptures of
Kenneth Snelson
and
John Robinson.
I have also collected some beautiful examples of
netsuke.
Sculptures from the Spring 2006 semester can be
seen on the following webpage:
Spring 2006 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Summer of 2006 are shown on the following webpage:
Summer 2006 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Fall of 2006 are shown on the following webpage:
Fall 2006 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Spring 2007 semester can be
seen on the following webpage:
Spring 2007 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Summer of 2007 are shown on the following webpage:
Summer 2007 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Spring 2008 semester can be
seen on the following webpage:
Spring 2008 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Summer of 2008 are shown on the following webpage:
Summer 2008 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Fall of 2008 are shown on the following webpage:
Fall 2008 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Summer of 2009 are shown on the following webpage:
Summer 2009 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Fall of 2009 are shown on the following webpage:
Fall 2009 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Spring of 2010 are shown on the following webpage:
Spring 2010 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Fall of 2010 are shown on the following webpage:
Fall 2010 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Spring and Summer of 2011 are shown on the following webpage:
Spring and Summer 2011 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Spring and Summer of 2012 are shown on the following webpage:
Spring 2012 Sculptures.
Sculptures from the Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 are shown on the following webpage:
Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 Sculptures.
I am president of our local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Psi of New York.
Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most prestigious liberal arts honor society in the country.
The link above will take
you to our webpage which has information about the history of the society,
our selection procedures, and lists of students who qualified in recent years.
I am the Permanent Faculty Correspondent of our local chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon,
the Alpha Omicron of New York, the National Mathematical Honor Society. For information
about our newly formed chapter, follow the link above.
I have been a serious ice skater (figure skating, not hockey!) since 1968. I am a member
of the United States Figure Skating Association, was a member of the Professional Skaters Association, and
I am currently a member and President of the Binghamton Figure Skating Club.
The link above will take you to a webpage where I have put my skating resume and some pictures.
Curriculum Vitae:
Follow the indicated link to my
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests:
Kac-Moody Lie Algebras and their Representations, Vertex Operator Algebras,
Conformal Field Theory, Fusion Rules, Hyperbolic Weyl Groups.
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The 3-State Potts Model and Rogers-Ramanujan Series, A paper written in collaboration
with Antun Milas (SUNY-Albany), the Central European Journal of Mathematics, Jan. 2013, Vol. 11,
Issue 1, pp. 1-16, (DOI) 10.2478/s11533-012-0086-7. A link to the online journal is
here.
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Matrix Realizations of Hyperbolic Triangle Groups, A paper written in collaboration
with Elizabeth Dwornik (Union-Endicott High School, Endicott, NY) as the culmination of
a one-year mentoring project. This paper is looking for a home. If you know of a nice
journal to which it should be submitted, please contact Alex Feingold.
- Hyperbolic Weyl Groups and the
Four Normed Division Algebras, A paper written in collaboration with Axel
Kleinschmidt (Universite Libre de Bruxelles & International Solvay Institutes,
Bruxelles, Belgium) and Hermann Nicolai (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational
Physics, Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany),
Journal of Algebra 322 (2009), pp. 1295--1339. Another paper with the same title
and authors was accepted for publication in the proceedings of an international
conference on vertex operators and related areas in honor of Geoffrey Mason. That
conference took place at Illinois State University in July, 2008. That shorter paper is an
introduction to and announcement of the results in this paper, and will appear in
Vertex operator algebras and related areas,
Contemporary Mathematics, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI.
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A New Perspective on the Frenkel-Zhu Fusion Rule Theorem,
A paper written in collaboration with Stefan Fredenhagen (Max Planck Institute
for Gravitational Physics, Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany), submitted
for publication in October 2007, accepted in June 2008,
to appear in the Journal of Algebra 320 (2008), pp. 2079--2100.
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Fusion Algebras, Symmetric Polynomials, Orbits of N-Groups, and Rank-Level Duality,
The Ph.D. thesis of Omar Saldarriaga, done under the direction of Alex Feingold.
Also available as a pdf file:
pdf file of Omar's thesis.
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Subalgebras of Hyperbolic Kac-Moody Algebras,
Kac-Moody Lie Algebras and Related Topics, Ramanujan International Symposium
on Kac-Moody Algebras and Applications, Jan. 28-31, 2002, Ramanujan Institute
for Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Madras, Chennai, India,
N. Sthanumoorthy, Kailash Misra, Editors, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 343,
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2004, 97--114, (with Hermann Nicolai,
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany).
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Fusion Rules For Affine Kac-Moody Algebras,
Kac-Moody Lie Algebras and Related Topics, Ramanujan International Symposium
on Kac-Moody Algebras and Applications, Jan. 28-31, 2002, Ramanujan Institute
for Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Madras, Chennai, India,
N. Sthanumoorthy, Kailash Misra, Editors, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 343,
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2004, 53--96.
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Valedictory Address by Alex J. Feingold to the
Ramanujan International Symposium on
Kac-Moody Lie Algebras and Applications, Jan. 28-31, 2002,
Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics,
University of Madras, Chennai, India.
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Type A Fusion Rules From Elementary Group Theory,
Comtemporary Mathematics, Vol. 297, Proceedings of the
Conference on Infinite-Dimensional Lie Theory and Conformal Field Theory,
Editors: S. Berman, P. Fendley, Y. Huang, K. Misra, and B. Parshall,
Charlottesville, VA, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2002
(with Michael Weiner), 97--115.
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Minimal Model Fusion Rules From 2-Groups,
Letters in Mathematical Physics, Vol. 40, No. 2, April (II), 1997, 159-169,
(with Fusun Akman and Michael D. Weiner).
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Spinor Construction of the c = 1/2 Minimal Model,
Moonshine, The Monster, and Related Topics, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol.
193 (Chongying Dong and Geoffrey Mason, editors), American Mathematical
Society, Providence, RI, 1995, pp. 45-92 (with John F. X. Ries and
Michael D. Weiner).
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Constructions of vertex operator algebras, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure
Mathematics, Vol. 56, Algebraic Groups and Their Generalizations, Editors
William J. Haboush and Brian J. Parshall, American Mathematical Society,
Providence, RI, April 1994, Part 2, 317-336.
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Representations of hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras, Journal of Algebra, Vol.
156, No. 2, April 1993, 433-453 (with Igor B. Frenkel and John F. X. Ries).
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Spinor Construction of Vertex Operator Algebras, Triality and E_8^(1),
Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 121, American Mathematical Society,
Providence, RI, 1991, 146 pp. monograph (with Igor B. Frenkel and John F. X.
Ries).
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Classical Affine Algebras (1),
Classical Affine Algebras (2),
Classical Affine Algebras (3),
Classical Affine Algebras (4),
Classical Affine Algebras (5),
Advances in Mathematics, Vol. 56, No. 2, May 1985, 117-172 (with Igor B. Frenkel).
I divided the paper into five pdf files rather than one big file.
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A Hyperbolic Kac-Moody Algebra and the Theory of Siegel Modular Forms of Genus 2,
Mathematische Annalen 263 (1983), 87--144, (with Igor B. Frenkel). Appearing here with
the permission of Niedersachsische Staats-und Universitatsbibliothek, which has the
volume at
this link.
Interesting Sites on the Web:
- MSRI Berkeley
- Minnesota Geometry Center
- Public Broadcasting Service
- American Mathematical Society
- Math resources: The-Science-Lab.com-
A directory of Math related websites.
- Max Planck Institut für
Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
- Max Planck Institut für
Gravitationsphysik, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany.
Interesting Mathematical Pictures From The Minnesota Geometry Center
- Picture 1, Jekyll and Hyde
- Picture 2, Red Eyes
- Picture 3, Crabs
- Picture 4, Frosted Pane
- Picture 5, Henon Ring
- Picture 6, Henon Isthmus
- Picture 7, Henon Crucified
- Picture 8, Hyperbolic Space Tiled with
Dodecahedra
- Picture 9, Inversion
- Picture 10, Penrose by Quasitiler
- Picture 11, Escher Fish
This page was last modified on 8/4/2012.
