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Edward R. Scheinerman
Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Vice Dean for Education, Whiting Schoool of Engineering
Johns Hopkins University

Postal Address	Office of Academic Affairs, Shaffer 103 Whiting School of Engineering 3400 North Charles Street The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218 USA
*Office*	Shaffer Hall 102C
*Phone/Text*	+1-410-516-7210 (direct line) +1-410-516-7395 (Academic Affairs) +1-410-656-4300 `ers@textfree.us` (internet texting)
*Email*	`ers@jhu.edu`
*Academic Appointments*	Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (primary) Department of Computer Science (secondary)
*Calendar*	At this time, please contact me directly to schedule appointments.

Teaching

Fall 2010	500.100 Archimedes' Lever Wednesdays, 3:00-5:00.
Spring 2010	550.472/672 Graph Theory Monday/Wednesday/Friday 9:00-9:50, Whitehead 304 TA: Jason Matterer
Fall 2009	500.100 Archimedes' Lever Wednesdays 3:00-5:00, Maryland 109
Office Hours	No fixed office hours, but I'm happy to meet with you by appointment (see “Calendar” above).
LaTeX	All math students should learn LaTeX.
Policies	Please see my homework and examination policies.
Student Contact	JHU students (and others) can find me on Facebook in addition to email and phone listed above.

Research

Discrete mathematics, especially graph theory, partially ordered sets, random graphs, and combinatorics, as well as applications to robotics and networks.

Professional Society Memberships

American Mathematical Society
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Association of America
Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications

Editorial

Editor of the Notes section of the American Mathematical Monthly.
Editorial board, Journal of Graph Theory.

Education

Princeton University, Mathematics, M.A. 1981 and Ph.D. 1984.
Brown University, Mathematics, Sc.B. 1980.

Books

Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Scientists and Engineers, under development.
C++ for Mathematicians, CRC Press.
Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction, Brooks/Cole, second edition.
- First edition available in Spanish from Thomson Learning in Mexico and in Portuguese from Thomson Learning in Brazil.
Fractional Graph Theory: A Rational Approach to the Theory of Graphs, coauthored with Daniel Ullman, Wiley, 1997. Available for free by clicking on the title.
Invitation to Dynamical Systems, Prentice Hall, 1996. Available for free by clicking on the title.

Academic Family

Douglas West, dissertation advisor. Through Doug, I can trace my academic ancestry to Hermann von Helmholtz and Nicolaus Copernicus.
Jerry Spinrad, evil twin.
Ann Trenk, Ph.D. 1991, Generalized Perfect Graphs.
Jennifer Zito, postdoc, 1990-91.
Paul Tanenbaum, Ph.D. 1995 (joint with Michael Goodrich), On Geometric Representations of Partial Orders.
Karen Singer Cohen, Ph.D. 1996, Random Intersection Graphs.
Gregory Levin, Ph.D. 1998, Selected Topics in Fractional Graph Theory.
Donniell Fishkind, Ph.D. 1998, Posets, Graphs, and Matrices.
- Al Aksakalli, Ph.D. 2007, Protocols for Stochastic Shortest Path Problems with Dynamic Learning.
Michael Capalbo, Ph.D. 2001 (joint with Rao Kosaraju), Universal Graphs.
Christine Nickel, Ph.D. 2007, Random Dot Product Graphs: A Model for Social Networks.
Kimberly Tucker, Ph.D. 2007, Exact and Asymptotic Dot Product Representations of Graphs.
Libby Beer, Ph.D. 2009 (joint with Carey Priebe), Latent Random Position Graphs: Theory, Inference, and Applications.
Elizabeth Reilly, Ph.D. 2010, Random Threshold Graphs and Related Topics.

Photos

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