Laura J. Stevens, Ph.D. LPSOE in Mathematics Department of Mathematics University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, Dept 0112 La Jolla, CA 92093-0112 USA Office: Applied Physics & Mathematics Building (AP&M) 5832 Phone: (858) 534-5864 Fax: (858) 534-5273 stevens@math.ucsd.edu

Teaching

Spring 2012:

• Math 121B
• Math 153
• Please note: Dr. Stevens is unable to accomodate requests for recommendation letters for students without a minimum of at least two weeks notice in advance of the deadline. If you are requesting a recommendation letter for a graduate or professional program, one months notice is preferable.

Published Papers and Instructional Resources

1. New! Holistic Problems with Pedagogical Commentary (pdf), with Guershon Harel, (2011), also available on the Math for America website.
   
   
2. New! The Concept of a Line: A study of its development through the grade levels (doc), with Judith Ross and Terrie Teegarden, Cal-PASS San Diego Central Mathematics Council, (2011), also available to Cal-PASS members on the Cal-PASS wiki website.
   
   
3. Supplementary Module for Pre-Service Teachers: Conic Sections, with Evan Fuller, Guershon Harel, and Jeff Rabin, (2009), available by request.
   
   
4. Supplementary Module for Pre-Service Teachers: Rates of Change>, with Evan Fuller, Guershon Harel, and Jeff Rabin, (2009), available by request.
   
   
5. An Extension of the Foata Map to Standard Young Tableaux (pdf), with Jim Haglund, Sem. Loth. 56 (2006), Article B56C
   
   
6. Combinatorics of rational functions and Poincaré-Birchoff-Witt Expansions of the canonical $U(n_{-})$-valued differential form (pdf), with Richárd Rimányi and Alexander Varchenko, Ann. Comb. 9 (2005), 57--74.
   
   
7. Elliptic Selberg integrals and conformal blocks (pdf), with Giovanni Felder and Alexander Varchenko, Math. Res. Lett. 10 (2003), 671--684.
   
   
8. Modular transformations of the elliptic hypergeometric functions, Macdonald polynomials, and the shift operator (pdf), with Giovanni Felder and Alexander Varchenko, Moscow Math. J. 3 (2003), no.2, 457--473.
   
   
9. Elliptic Selberg integrals (pdf), with Giovanni Felder and Alexander Varchenko.