Professor Roger L. Kraft

Department of Computer Science
Purdue University Northwest
Hammond, IN 46323-2094
Office: Classroom Office Building, Room 368
Phone: (219) 989-2255
E-mail: rlkraft@pnw.edu

Curriculum Vita

Education:
Ph.D. in Mathematics, June 1990, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
M.A. in Mathematics, May 1985, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
B.S., in Mathematics and Computer Science, May 1982, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
A.A.S., in Electrical Engineering Technology, May 1977, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Employment:
2016-present Associate Professor, Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN.
1998-2016 Associate Professor, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN.
1994-1998 Assistant Professor, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN.
1993-1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
1992-1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA.
1991-1992 Visiting Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
1990-1991 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
1988-1989 Instructor, University College, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Publications: (Google Scholar)

  1. R. L. Kraft, Functions and Parameterizations as Objects to Think With, Maple Summer Workshop, July 2004, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Here is the presentation (Maple 9.5 worksheet), and also an extended version of the paper (Maple 8 worksheet).
  2. R. L. Kraft, Maple Programming: Complete Set of Lessons, Maple Application Center, Maplesoft, Inc., January 2002.
  3. R. L. Kraft, Random intersections of thick Cantor sets, Trans. of the Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 352, No. 3, March, 2000, pp. 1315-1328. (MR 2000j:28007)
  4. R. L. Kraft, Chaos, Cantor sets, and hyperbolicity for the logistic maps, Amer. Math. Monthly, Vol. 106, No. 5, May, 1999, pp. 400-408. (MR 2000f:37042)
  5. R. L. Kraft, A golden Cantor set, Amer. Math. Monthly, Vol. 105, No. 8, Oct., 1998, pp. 718-725. (MR 99i:26007)
  6. R. L. Kraft, review of the book "Hyperbolic and sensitive chaotic dynamics at homoclinic bifurcations", by J. Palis and F. Takens, in SIAM Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, June 1996, pp. 348-349.
  7. R. L. Kraft, What's the difference between Cantor sets?, Amer. Math. Monthly, Vol. 101, No. 7, Aug-Sept, 1994, pp. 640-650. (MR 95f:04006)
  8. R. L. Kraft, One point intersections of middle-alpha Cantor sets, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 1994, 14, pp. 537-549. (MR 95i:54050)
  9. R. L. Kraft, Intersections of Thick Cantor Sets (PDF), Memoirs of the Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 97, Number 468, May, 1992, vi+119 pp. (MR 92i:28010)