Sam
Huckaba
Vita,
March 2008
Ph.D.
Mathematics, Purdue University, 1986
M.S.
Mathematics, Purdue University, 1983
B.A.
Mathematics, University of Missouri, 1980
Associate
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, 2004-
Associate
Chair for Graduate Studies, 2000-2004
Professor,
Florida State University, 1998-
Associate
Professor, Florida State University, 1992-1998
Visiting
Associate Professor, Purdue University, Spring 1997
Assistant
Professor, Florida State University, 1987-92
Visiting
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, 1986-87
Teaching
Assistant, Purdue University, 1981-86
University
Teaching Award, FSU, 2002
Developing
Scholar Award, FSU, 1994
Teaching
Incentive Program Award, FSU, 1994
University
Teaching Award, FSU, 1991
Arts
and Sciences Teaching Award, FSU, 1991
David
Ross Fellow, Purdue University, 1984-86
Gerald R.
Maclane Award (teaching, coursework), Purdue University, 1983
Research
Research
Interests
Commutative
Algebra
This is my
primary area of research, specifically polynomial rings and ideals, Noetherian
local rings, blowup algebras, and Hilbert-Samuel functions and polynomials.
Applications
of Algebra
Topics include
cryptology, coding theory, and biology.
Algebraic
Geometry
This classical
field contains the geometric side of commutative algebra and relies on
commutative algebra machinery for many of its results.
1. On linear
equivalence of the P-adic and P-symbolic topologies, J. of Pure and Applied
Algebra 46(1987), 179-185.
2.
Reduction numbers for ideals of analytic spread one, J. Algebra 108(1987),
503-512.
3.
Reduction numbers for ideals of higher analytic spread, Math. Proc. Cambridge
Philos. Soc. 102(1987), 49-57.
4.
Symbolic powers of prime ideals with applications to hypersurface rings, Nagoya
Math. J. 113(1989), 161-172.
5.
Analytic spread modulo an element and symbolic Rees algebras, J. Algebra
128(1990), 306-320.
6.
On complete d-sequences and the defining ideals of Rees algebras, Math. Proc.
Cambridge Philos. Soc. 106(1989), 445-458.
7.
Powers of ideals having small analytic deviation (with C. Huneke), Amer. J.
Math. 114(1992), 367-403.
8.
Rees algebras of ideals having small analytic deviation (with C. Huneke),
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 339(1993), 373-402.
9.
Depth properties of Rees algebras and associated graded rings (T. Marley), J.
Algebra 156(1993), 259-271.
10.
On graded rings associated to analytic deviation one ideals (with S. Goto),
Amer. J. Math. 116(1994), 905-919.
11.
Depth formulas for certain graded rings associated to an ideal (with
T.
Marley), Nagoya Math. J. 133(1994), 57-69.
12.
Reduction numbers, Rees algebras, and Pfaffian ideals (with I.M. Aberbach and
C. Huneke), J. Pure and Appl. Algebra 102(1995), 1-15.
13.
Reduction number bounds on analytic deviation 2 ideals and Cohen-Macaulayness
of associated graded rings, (with I.M. Aberbach), Communications in Algebra
23(6)(1995), 2003-2026.
14.
A d-dimensional extension of a lemma of Huneke's and formulas for the Hilbert
coefficients, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124(5)(1996), 1393-1401.
15.
Hilbert coefficients and the depths of associated graded rings, (with T.
Marley), J. London Math. Soc.(2), 56 (1997), 64-76.
16.
On associated graded rings having almost maximal depth, Communications in Algebra
26(3) (1998), 967-976.
17.
Normal ideals in regular rings, (with C. Huneke), J. reine angew. Math., 510
(1999), 63-82.
18.
On associated graded rings of normal ideals, (with T. Marley), J. Algebra, 222
(1999), 146-163.
19. Length one ideal extensions and their
associated graded rings, Communications in Algebra 33 (2005), 1-9.
Selected
Talks
University of
Missouri, December 1999, retirement conference
American
Mathematical Society, regional meeting, University of Illinois, March 1999,
session titled "Commutative algebra"
International
commutative algebra conference in honor of David Rees, August 1998, Exeter, UK
American
Mathematical Society, national meeting, San Francisco, January 1995, session
titled Commutative Algebra - Rees Algebras
International
Conference on Commutative Algebra (a satellite conference of the 1994
International Congress of Mathematics), August 1994, Vechta, Germany
Conference:
Connections Between Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry",
University of Missouri, May 1993
American
Mathematical Society, regional meeting, University of Tennessee, March 1993,
session titled Commutative Ring Theory
University of
Nebraska, April 1992, colloquium talk
American
Mathematical Society, regional meeting, Southwest Missouri State University,
March 1992, session titled Commutative Algebra
American
Mathematical Society, national meeting, University of Maine, August 1991,
session titled Commutative Algebra with Applications to Algebraic Geometry.
Washington
University (St. Louis), December 1990, colloquium talk
American
Mathematical Society, regional meeting, University of North Texas, November
1990, session titled Commutative Algebra University of Missouri, February 1989,
colloquium talk
American
Mathematical Society, regional meeting, University of Tennessee, March 1988,
session titled Commutative Algebra
Piedmont
Conference on Commutative Algebra, UNC-Charlotte, March 1987
American
Mathematical Society, regional meeting, University of Missouri, November 1985,
session titled Commutative Algebra
COFRS
Summer Grant, FSU, 2002
National
Security Agency, 1992-94
National
Science Foundation, 1989
CRC
Summer Grant for first year assistant professors, 1988
Recognized in 1991 (twice), 1994, and 2002.
Becky Goforth,
Ph.D. April, 2005
Thesis
Title: Description and analysis of
a two-variable version of the NTRU crypto system
Todd
McDonald, Ph.D. 2006 (Computer Science)
Yelena Meadows
(current, Math Ed)
Bill
Adams (current, Math)
Andy
Novocin (current, Math)
Hongmei
Chi, Ph.D. 2004 (Computer Science)
Penelope
Kirby, Ph.D. 1999 (Math)
Guang
Fu, Ph.D. 1998 (Math)
Junesang
Choi, Ph.D. 1991 (Math)
Yelena
Meadows, MS 2003 (Chair, Math)
Doug
Windham, MS 2003 (Math)
Kit
Kennedy, MS 2003 (Math)
Robert
Watkins, MS 1997 (Math)
Sylvia
McMichael, MS 1995 (Math)
Paul
Fillmore, MS 1995 (Math)
Kim
Haugh, MS 1995 (Math)
Randy Dean, MS
1992 (Math)
Honors
Thesis Committees
Jane Ren,
2004, Computer Science
DJ Scott,
2003, Computer Science
Courses
Taught at FSU
MAC 2311
Calculus 1 F87,Sp89,F90,S94,Sp96,F97,S98,F00
MAC 2312
Calculus 2 Sp88,F88,F89,Sp93,Sp94,Sp96,Sp98,F01
MAC 2313
Calculus 3 Sp90,F96,S97,F97,Sp99
MAS 3105 Linear Alg Sp91,Sp92,Sp94,F94,S95,F95,S96,S99,S01,
S03,F03,S04
MAD 3104 Disc
Math 1 Sp88
MAD 3105 Disc
Math 2 F89
MAS 3301 Mod
Algebra F89,S91,Sp04
MAS 4302 Intro
Abs Alg1 F94,F02
MAS 4302 Intro
Abs Alg2 Sp95,Sp03
MAS 5307 GRV 1 F91,F95
MAS 5307 GRV 2 Sp92,Sp96
MAS 5311 Abs
Algebra 1 F93,F96
MAS 5311 Abs
Algebra 2 Sp94
MAS 6938
Algebra Seminar
F88,Sp89,F90,Sp91,Sp93,F01,Sp02,F02
MAS 6936 Comm
Alg 1 F98
MAS 6936 Comm
Alg 2 Sp99
MAT 4906
Topics in Alg F01,Sp02
MAT 5907 Adv
Topics Alg
S98,S99
Service
Administrative
Service
Associate
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 2004-
Associate
Chair for Graduate Studies, Mathematics, 2000-2004
Activity,
Mathematics
2003-04
Graduate
Committee (Chair), Executive Committee, Faculty Evaluation Committee, Elections
Committee, Goodner Teaching Award Committee, University Fulbright Committee,
AMS Regional Meeting Committee
2002-03
Graduate
Committee (Chair), Executive Committee, Faculty Evaluation Committee, Elections
Committee, Goodner Teaching Award Committee, University Fulbright Committee,
Faculty Senate
2001-02
Graduate
Committee (Chair), Executive Committee, Faculty Evaluation Committee, Elections
Committee, Goodner Teaching Award Committee, Chair Search Committee, University
Fulbright Committee, Faculty Senate.
2000-01
Graduate
Committee (Chair), Executive Committee, Faculty Evaluation Committee, Elections
Committee, Goodner Teaching Award Committee.
1999-00
On leave.
1998-99
Prelim Exam
Committee (Chair), Faculty Evaluation Committee, Elections Committee, Chair
Search Committee, Symbolic Computation Search Committee.
1997-98
Prelim Exam
Committee, Calculus Committee (Chair), Faculty Evaluation Commitee, Elections
Committee.
1996-97
Prelim Exam
Committee, Elections Committee, University Council on Teaching.
1995-96
Faculty
Evaluation Committee, Graduate Financial Aid and Recruitment Committee,
Departmental TIP Committee, Elections Committee, University TIP Committee,
University Council on Teaching.
1994-95
Faculty
Evaluation Committee, Graduate Financial Aid and Recruitment Committee,
Departmental TIP Committee,
Elections Committee, Colloquium Committee, A&S College TIP
Committee, Doctoral Review Committee for the Department of Urban and Regional
Planning, University Council on Teaching.
1993-94
Graduate
Financial Aid Committee, Elections Committee.
1992-93
Curriculum
Committee, Elections Committee.
1991-92
Undergraduate
Curriculum Self-Study Committee, Linear Algebra Textbook
Committee
(Chair), Elections Committee.
1990-91
Curriculum
Committee, Colloquium Committee, Elections Committee.
1989-90
Curriculum
Committee.
1988-89
Calculus
Textbook Committee.
Professional
Service
Refereeing and
Reviewing:
J. London
Mathematical Society
J. of Algebra
Proc. American
Math. Soc.
J. Pure and
Applied Algebra
Pacific
J. Mathematics
Canadian J.
Mathematics
Communications
in Algebra
Composito
Mathematics
Mount Holyoke
Proceedings
Trieste
Proceedings
Mathematical
Reviews
Proposal
Evaluations:
NSF proposals,
yearly
NSF Panel
Review
National
Security Agency proposals
Textbook
Reviews
Conference
Organization
American
Mathematical Society, regional meeting, March 1995, Orlando, FL, session titled
Commutative Algebra