# Sheldon Joyner, PhD

Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science

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## Education

• PhD, Purdue University
• MSc, Stellenbosch University
• Hons BSc, Stellenbosch University

## Research Interests

• Zeta and L-functions
• Iterated integrals, Polylogarithm functions
• Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations
• Grothendieck-Teichmuller theory

## Employment History

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Suffolk University, 2013 to present
• Postdoctoral Lecturer, Brandeis University, 2011 to 2013
• Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor, The University of Western Ontario, 2008 to 2011

## Publications

• On a generalization of Chen's iterated integrals, J. Number Theory, 130 no.2, (2010), 254-288.
• Pullback of parabolic bundles and covers of ${\mathbb P}^1\setminus\{0,1,\infty\}$, (with Ajneet Dhillon), Mich. Math. J., 61 no. 1 (2012), 199-224.
• An algebraic version of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation}, Ramanujan J., 28 no. 3 (2012), 361-384.
• On an extension of the universal monodromy representation for P^1 \ {0,1,\infty}, Communications in Number Theory and Physics, 8 no. 3, (2014), 369 - 402.

## Selected Lectures

• Workshop on Grothendieck-Teichmuller theory and multiple zeta values, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University, 2013
• Mathematics seminar, The University of Arizona, 2012
• Workshop on multiple zeta values, modularity and elliptic motives, Heilbronn Institute, University of Bristol, 2011
• Polylogarithm seminar, Institut de mathematiques de Jussieu, 2009

## Courses Taught

• Abstract Algebra
• Introduction to Abstract Mathematics
• Calculus I
• Calculus for Management and Social Sciences
• Independent studies: Complex Analysis, Introduction to p-adic Analysis