Anton Betten

Dr. Anton Betten

Department of Mathematics

Colorado State University

Fort Collins, CO 80523

USA.

phone: (970) 491 1865

fax: (970) 491 2161

betten at math dot colostate dot edu

Welcome and Brief Bio

Hi! Thanks for stopping by. I am an associate professor of mathematics at Colorado State University (CSU). My research area is Combinatorics, with particular interests in designs, codes, and finite geometries. I received my Ph.D. from Bayreuth University in Bayreuth, Germany, under the supervision of Prof A. Kerber and Prof. R. Laue. In 2001/2002, I spent one year at the University of Western Australia to work with Cheryl Praeger on a class of designs. I joined CSU in 2002. At CSU, I teach graduate and undergraduate classes like Combinatorics, Cryptography, Information and Coding Theory, Linear Algebra, Calculus, etc. I have also been involved in developing two courses: A one credit module Mathematical Algorithms in Maple and a 3 credit bridge course Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning, aimed at easing the pain of transition from Sophomore to Junior level classes. I am a fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.

Teaching

I have taught the following classes: Combinatorics, Cryptography, Coding and Information Theory, Linear Algebra, Calculus (all kinds), Programming with Maple, Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning.

In Fall 2010, I will not teach since I am on a Sabbatical. I will be back in Spring 2011.

Workshop Coding Theory and Geometry, August 5-6, 2010 hosted by Colorado State University

Workshop Coding Theory and Geometry

Advising and Research

I have advised the following graduate students:

Tom Edgar: Finite Projective Geometries and Linear Codes (Master's paper, Spring 2004)

Cayla McBee: Clique finding in graphs and the search for ovoids in polar spaces (Master's paper, Spring 2007)

Bader Al-Shamarey (Ph.D.): Two topics in combinatorial optimization: the domino portrait problem and the maximum clique problem. April 2007

Abdullah Al-Azemi (Ph.D.) Classification Algorithms for Graphs, Digraphs and Linear Spaces. Defense July 6, 2007.

I do research in Combinatorics, Finite Geometry, Coding Theory, Design Theory (in particular Linear Spaces), and Computational Group Theory. I also have an interest in Combinatorial Optimization. Please see my research page for more details.

Research

Talks

See here for a list of talks I gave

Publications

See here for a list of publications

Refereeing

I have refereed for various Journals and some agencies.

Photos

A Domino portrait of me:

A larger version

with Rudi Mathon, Anne Delandtsheer, Cheryl Praeger in Irsee (Germany), September 2006

Rohit Gosh, Anton Betten, Ka Hin Leung, Qing Xiang, Hans Havlicek, Maiko Takeda, Eun Ju Cheon and Tatsuya Maruta (left-to-right) in Germany, September 2006

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