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Michael J. Drinen

Department of Mathematics

Willamette University, 900 State Street

Salem, OR 97301

phone: (503)375-5454; e-mail: mdrinen@willamette.edu

Education:

Employment History:

University of Washington (1993-1999): Graduate teaching and research assistant. Duties included:
- Instructing classes including Basic Algebra, Differential Equations, and Abstract Algebra for Teachers.
- Seminars on Teaching: Discussing both practical and theoretical teaching issues.
- Math Study Center: Helping freshman calculus students with homework
Knox College (1999-2000 academic year): Visiting Assistant Professor. Duties included:
- Instructing calculus; integrating technology with instruction.
- Leading undergraduates in independent study and research.
- Department service including maintaining the ``puzzle of the week'' web page and organizing prize exam.
Willamette University (beginning August 2000): Visiting Assistant Professor. Duties included or will include:
- Instructing classes including math for liberal arts majors, calculus, differential equations, complex analysis, and number theory.
- Developing a software to help manage electronic homework.

Research:

Research Interests: algebraic and computational number theory
Ph.D. Thesis: Iwasawa mu-Invariants of Selmer groups, Adviser Ralph Greenberg.
Recent Conferences, Workshops, and Invited Talks:
- MSRI hot topics workshop (December 1999): Elliptic Curves, Modularity, and Beyond
- MSRI workshop (August 2000): Algorithmic Number Theory
- Pacific Northwest Number Theory Seminar (May 1998, May 1999, and May 2001)
- Colloquium talk ``Primes in Arithmetic Progressions'', at Oregon State University, on November 20, 2001.
Publications: Preprints available here
- Iwasawa mu-invariants and Submodules, To appear in the Journal of Number Theory.
- Iwasawa mu-invariants of Elliptic Curves and Their Symmetric Powers, submitted to the Journal of Number Theory in December 2000.
- Finding Elliptic Curves with Given Reduction Type In preparation

References:

Ralph Greenberg, University of Washington (206)-543-7648,
greenber@math.washington.edu
Joe Buhler, Reed College (503)788-6696,
jpb@reed.edu
Virginia Warfield, University of Washington (206)543-6932,
warfield@math.washington.edu