James Mc Laughlin

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Professor

Office: UNA 108
Phone: 610-430-4417
Fax: 610-738-0578

Email

Webpage: jMcLaughlin

Education

  • B.S. New University of Ulster
  • M.S. University College, Dublin
  • Ph.D. University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

Research Interests

  • Integer Partitions
  • Continued Fractions
  • Q-series
  • The mathematics of Ramanujan

Professional Experience

  • West Chester University, PA. Professor, August 2015 – present
  • West Chester University, PA. Associate Professor, August 2010 – July 2015
  • West Chester University, PA. Assistant Professor, August 2005 - July 2010
  • Trinity College, Hartford, CT. Visiting Assistant Professor, August 2002 - May 2005

Selected Publications

  • On the Divergence of the Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction on the Unit Circle (With D. Bowman) - The Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 356 (2004), no. 8, 3325--3347.
  • Symmetry and specializability in the continued fraction expansions of some infinite products - The Journal of Number Theory 127 (2007), no. 2, 184--219.
  • General WP-Bailey Chains (with Peter Zimmer) - The Ramanujan Journal 22 (2010), no. 1, 11–31.
  • On a pair of identities from Ramanujan's lost notebook (with Andrew Sills) - Annals of Combinatorics Volume 16, Number 3 (2012), 591-607.
  • Further results on vanishing coefficients in infinite product expansions - J. Aust. Math. Soc. 98 (2015), no. 1, 69–77.

Selected Talks

Grants/Awards

  • Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant (#209175 to James McLaughlin).