Geremias Polanco Encarnacion

Office: 110 Altgeld Hall; 1409 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL, 61801 E-mail: gpolanc2 (at) illinois.edu. Telephone: (217) 244-1673

I am the chair for the 2012 Departamental Graduate Teaching Award. The link contains iformation about the award.

Teaching

Courses
Teaching Statement--------Student's opinion about my Teaching
My Tabulated Ices Scores This is a collection of quantitative evaluations of my classes by my students. It was done at the end of the semester and I was not present in the classroom.

Research

My passion is to understand and communicate mathematics, and Number Theory in particular. My primary interest is Analytic Number Theory, but this has led me also into the kindred area of Algebraic Combinatorics. The topics I am most involved with so far are related to Sturmian and Beatty sequences, uniform distribution, spectra in general, continued fractions, combinatorial sequences, and L-functions. I also have a significant interest in Actuarial Science, including both short and long term form of insurance; life, pension and health insurance, as well as property and casualty or liability insurance. Research Statement

About Me

I was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where I grew up with my parents and siblings. Siblings? Well, I have lots of them. 10 indeed, to be precise. The Dominican Republic, as you probably know, is famous for its beaches and its baseball players. Well, I am one of those few dominicans that decided to spend less time in the beach and in the baseball field, and instead made the visit to the math library a frequent habit. A fulbright scholarship opened the door for my graduate studies at the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign, where I have completed two masters degree and will complete my phd in Mathematics (Number Theory) in the summer 2012. I am fascinated by the life of Jesus and I like to research about it and share my findings. I love reading and cooking. I like indoor and outdoor activities with the purpose of spending time with friends. I have come to like board games (Tichu, Setlers, Power Grid, Seven Wonders, Civilization, Bang, Agricola,). I love doing community service activities of almost any sort. And of course, I love Baseball, otherwise, I would not be dominican. My favorite player is Albert Pujols, and I am not bias: he is good! If you want to, feel free to scrol down and see some nice picture of different places in the Dominican Republic.

My CV

Some Dominican Republic Pic's: Beaches and more



Some Useful Links


U of I Homepage
Math Department Homepage
The On line Enciclopedia of Integer Sequences
Department of Mathematics
273 Altgeld Hall, MC-382
1409 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Telephone: (217) 333-3350    Fax: (217) 333-9576     Email: math@illinois.edu