Welcome to my home on the web. This page should be linked to using the URL http://www.pobox.com/~nweining, as this is a "permanent" forwarding URL which will not change when I change ISPs.

October 2004: Employers, look here for the information you need to evaluate me as a job candidate. Includes updated resume and CV, teaching and research statements. Also has links to some of my publications.

August 2004: Updates for the fall. I'm teaching three workshop sections of Math 151 and again organizing the Graduate Student Combinatorics Seminar.

May 2004: Updates for the summer. I'm teaching Math 428 from June 1 through July 9.

January 2004: Updates for the start of the spring semester. I'm organizing the Graduate Student Combinatorics Seminar.

August 2003: Updates for the start of the fall semester. I'm teaching three recitation sections of Math 251.

August 2003: I am now a guest blogger on one of my favorite blogs, Radley Balko's The Agitator.

May 2003: Updates for the summer. I'm teaching my very own course, Math 244, from May 27 through July 17.

January 2003: Updates for the spring semester. No teaching this spring-- I've got support to just do research.

August 2002: Updates for the start of the fall semester. I'm teaching one recitation section of Math 115 and two sections of Math 135. And my lovely wife Catharine finally has a homepage (well, blog) of her own.

April 2002: Finally updated the site a bit after long inactivity. Soon I will get some pictures up here. Also, the AgainstRevenge.org petition has been sent, so we no longer need signers. Thanks to everyone who signed-- we did what we could.

September 2001: I am now the webmaster of AgainstRevenge.org, a site devoted to opposing a vengeful and murderous US military response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Please, if you're interested in peace and reason in our response to terrorism, visit the site (and the other anti-revenge sites we link to), and sign the petition.

You might also like to read my essay We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us, which started the chain of events that led to the site's construction.

December 2000: I have completely redesigned this site, making it look somewhat less lame, and cleaning out cruft. Thanks to Paul Cantrell for providing the template from which I shamelessly lifted the new design.

I am a graduate student in mathematics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. I am working toward a Ph.D. which will, if all goes well, be complete in 2005; my principal interests thus far are in graph theory, probabilistic combinatorics, and computational complexity theory. Webbed stuff related to my mathematical work is here. In the Spring 2004 semester I organized the Graduate Student Combinatorics Seminar, and in the fall I am doing so again.

In the Fall 2002 semester I TA'd a section of Math 115 and two sections of Math 135. In the Summer 2003 semester I taught a section of Math 244. In the Fall 2003 semester I TA'd three sections of Math 251. In Summer 2004 I taught Math 428. In Fall 2004 I am TA'ing three sections of Math 151.

I am now in my fifth year at Rutgers. I passed my written qualifying exams in August 2001 and my oral qualifying exams in September 2002, so I've now got only the little matter of a thesis between me and a Ph.D.

I live in a cozy townhouse in Somerset with my beloved wife, Catharine. We were married on July 12, 2002, in St. Paul, MN. We have an extremely cute and shamelessly spoiled cat named Hazel. After I get my Ph.D., we plan to go do something interesting and productive, somewhere nicer than New Jersey.

I got my undergraduate degree in 1998 from Macalester College, a small liberal arts college in St. Paul, Minnesota-- a fine place, which I recommend especially for the strength of its math and computer science department. I particularly loved the semester I spent in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program; the mathematics teaching is wonderful, the country is wonderful, the food is wonderful, it's just wonderful any way you slice it.

From 1998-2000 I worked on real-time operating systems and formal software verification at the Honeywell Technology Center (now Honeywell Labs) in Minneapolis, the R&D center for Honeywell International. Another fine place, full of smart people and interesting projects. You might ask why I left a remunerative and intellectually stimulating job in Minnesota to go be a starving grad student in New Jersey. The short answer is: there is nothing in the world like pure mathematics. The longer answer is: right now is likely to be the best opportunity I'll ever have to do this, and I can always go back to Minnesota if New Jersey gets to be too much for me.

Before Macalester I attended Phillips Exeter Academy, a private school in Exeter, New Hampshire. I maintain a page of information for my fellow members of the PEA Class of 1994. Any other '94s in the NYC/New Jersey area are strongly encouraged to stop by and visit (but do drop me a line first at nweininger@pobox.com).

I take intense pleasure from cooking good food; writing good code (on which subject see the Eidola homepage); reading interesting books; understanding the proofs of deep theorems; and having wide-ranging philosophico-politico-socio-religio-whatever discussions. I have many occasions for the last of these, as I am a libertarian and fairly radical even by libertarian standards, and therefore I seldom lack reasons to disagree with any given person I happen to be speaking to. David Friedman put it well: "My political views are natural and obvious-- to me. Others find them very peculiar."

Here is my Geek Code: GM/CS d+ s+:-- a-- C++++ UXHSL+ P+ L++ E W++ N+ o-- K w-- O M+ V-- PS+++ PE+++ Y+ PGP t+ 5 X- R tv- b+++ DI+ D+ G+ e++>++++ h- r++ y?

If you want to learn more about my interests, at least as they relate to the Web, check out my links page. You can also take a look at my SF novels page; one of my deepest and longest-running interests is reading science fiction, and I've made a list of those SF novels I think are really Great (or at least Good).

Comments and inquiries are welcome, and should be addressed to nweininger@pobox.com.