Reichling, Steven B.: Tarantulas of Belize

Research Statement : Steven J Miller Steven

My main interest is analytic number theory and random matrix theory (especially the distribution of zeros of L-functions and the eigenvalues of random matrix ensembles); I am also studying equidistribution problems in analysis and probability, and working on applied problems in probability, statistics, graph theory, cryptography, sabermetrics and linear programming where the tools and technique...

Tarantulas do not shoot silk from their legs: experimental evidence in four species of New World tarantulas.

Theraphosid tarantulas, like all other spiders, secrete silk from spigots on the abdominal spinnerets. A few years ago, it was proposed that the large tarantula Aphonopelma seemanni could extrude silk from specialized spigots on the tarsi to help adhesion to vertical surfaces. This suggestion was later questioned because silk was not observed after the spinnerets had been sealed. Recently, expe...

Cruise Tourism in Belize:

Steven Byrnes 1 REPRESENTATION THEORY OF S n Steven Byrnes

We use Young tableaux and Young symmetrizers to classify the irreducible representations over C of the symmetric group on n letters, Sn. We establish an isomorphism between a ring of all representations of finite symmetric groups and the ring of symmetric functions, and, as a corollary, prove the Frobenius formula for the characters of representations of Sn. We use the theory thus developed to ...

Steven Buechler

Geometrical stability theory is a powerful set of model-theoretic tools that can lead to structural results on models of a simple first-order theory. Typical results offer a characterization of the groups definable in a model of the theory. The work is carried out in a universal domain of the theory (a saturated model) in which the Stone space topology on ultrafilters of definable relations is ...