Name: Ricardo Diaz Professor of Mathematics

 Classes:
Calculus, complex analysis, differential equations, and graduate courses in analysis.

 Teaching Philosophy
A picture tells a thousand words (geometrical visualization is a powerful aid for absorbing and remembering mathematics). There are no foolish questions.

 Experience
Professor Diaz has taught undergraduate and graduate mathematics courses at UNC since 1991. Before that, from 1983-1991, he and his wife Katharine taught a variety of mathematics courses at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He has also taught multi-variable calculus as a teaching assistant at Princeton University.

 Research and Publications:
His research interests in mathematics include applied partial differential equations pertaining to heat conduction ("A Runge Theorem for Solutions of the Heat Equation", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society); theoretical partial differential equations involving the tangential Cauchy-Riemann complex on a real hypersurface (Communications in Partial Differential Equations and Duke Mathematics Journal); applications of Fourier analysis to the geometry of lattice polyhedra ("The Ehrhart Polynomial of a Lattic Polytope, Annals of Mathematics); and, most recently, "The Frobenius Problem, Rational Polytopes, and Fourier Dedekind Sums", Journal of Number Theory, (with Matthias Beck and Sinai Robins) .

 E-Mail: ricardo.diaz@unco.edu
Telephone: (970) 351-2353
Fax: (970) 351-1225
Office: 2239C Ross