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Christopher K. King

Professor

Office Number:	437 LA
Phone Number:	617-373-3905
Fax Number:	617-373-5658
E-Mail Address:	king "at" neu.edu
Mailing Address:	Northeastern University Department of Mathematics 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Research

PhD received from Harvard University

Supervised Research

Congratulations to undergraduates Ala Harelik and Jana Yamani for being awarded the Outstanding Student Research Award at the Research and Scholarship Expo 2009 for their work on Congestion Control Algorithms. Ala and Jana also presented their work at the Boston Undergraduate Research Symposium at Harvard University, April 11 2009.

Areas of Interest

Mathematical physics, applications of mathematics in modeling and engineering

A short CV

Papers and Publications

Current Teaching

Some probability links

Java applets to generate random numbers and compute distributions -- links to the website of the Chance Project at the Mathematics Department, Dartmouth College:
- Counting tosses of a fair coin.
- Keeping tally of excess of Heads over Tails.
- Vary tosses per game and number of games.
- Compare exact binomial distribution with normal approximation.
- Compute CLT approximation for specified number of copies of randomly selected distribution.
- Roll the dice.
- All kinds.
- All kinds.
- The Quincunx.
- Normal examples.
- Shortest connection of three points
- Algorithm for finding walk on graph that traverses every edge twice
- Dijkstra's algorithm
- Constructing a polynomial link invariant
  
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  Announcement about NSF Travel Grant Program for Nordita/Mittag-Leffler Conference on Quantum Information Theory 4-8 Oct. 2010.
  
  Last modified June 2010