Paul B. van Wamelen

Education

• Undergraduate:
  • University of South Africa in Pretoria, 1985,
  • University of Pretoria 1986-1988.
• Graduate: University of California, San Diego 1989-1994.

Professional Experience

• Computational Statistician, AIR, Feb 2006-present.
• Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, Aug 2001-Jan 2006.
• Spent the 2002/2003 academic year at the University of Sydney working on the Magma computational algebra system.
• Spent the calendar year 1997 at University of South Africa.
• Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, 1994-Jul 2001.

Research

The Stark's conjecture paper has been published, but we still don't have an answer to the question: Can you see a pattern (any pattern!) in this picture? If you can let me know and we might be famous...

Publications

For a full list of publications look here.

Data

The following are data sets that I have computed. Some of this did not fit in the various articles and are only published here.

• Genus 2 CM curves defined over the rationals
• Isogenies for Smart's curves
• Motzkin-Rabin geometries

Programs

Some of the programs used to compute the above data might be of interest to other researchers interested in computations on genus 2 curves and their Jacobians. They can now be found at this page. Anyone interested in the Somos 6 sequence should look at the worked example.

Other

• You can play the board game Hex online
• You can play all kinds of lesser known board games with other enthusiast on Richard's PBeM server (by e-mail). Some games have a graphical interface. You can see games in progress here and here.