ADAM GLESSER, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Adam Glesser, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Phone: 617.994.6897
Fax: 617.573.8591
Email: aglesser@suffolk.edu
Office: Fenton Building, Rm. 427
 

Education

• PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
• MA, University of California, Santa Cruz
• BA, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Interests

• Algebra
• Group Theory
• Representation Theory of Finite Groups
• Fusion Systems
• Algebraic Topology
• Homological Algebra

University Service

• Faculty Advisor to Suffolk University Math Society (SUMS)
• CTE Advisory Board Member

Employment

2008 - present, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Suffolk University

January - May 2008, MSRI Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

2006-2008, Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen

1999-2006, Instructor & Teaching Assistant, University of California Santa Cruz

Selected Publications

Control of Transfer and Weak Closure in Fusion Systems (with Antonio Diaz, Nadia Mazza, Sejong Park), J. Algebra 323 (2010), no. 2, 383-392.

Glauberman's and Thompson's Theorems for Fusion Systems (with Antonio Díaz, Nadia Mazza, Sejong Park), Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 137 (2009), no.2, 495-503.

Some Refinements of Dade's Projective Conjecture, Journal of Algebra, 318 (2007), 692-709.

On p-Monomial Modules Over Local Domains (with Robert Boltje), Journal of Group Theory, 10 (2007), no. 2, 173-183.

Classes Taught

Precalculus Mathematics
Topics in Finite Mathematics
Calculus I, II
Honors Calculus Seminar I, II
Multivariable Calculus
Ordinary Differentials Equations
Advanced Honors Seminar (Cryptography)
Complex Analysis