Dr. Jeff Pullen

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Co-Chair of Mathematics Department

Education

Algebraic topology

Dr. Jeff Pullen’s work focuses on the use of authentic research in undergraduate STEM coursework. He teaches:

First-Year Experience (UNV 101)
Mathematical Ideas (MAT 104)
Elementary Statistics (STA 126)
Pre-calculus (MAT 133)
Calculus I, Calculus II, and Multivariable Calculus (MAT 191, MAT 192, MAT 293)
Special Introductory Topics in Mathematics: Knot Theory (MAT 198)
Discrete Mathematics (MAT 225)
Introduction to Abstract Mathematics (MAT 260)
Introduction to Differential Equations (MAT 330)
Linear Algebra (MAT 340)
Directed Independent Study: Complex Analysis, Galois Theory, Graph Theory (MAT 401)
Real Analysis I, II (MAT 481, 482)

de Silva, C., Pullen, J. D., Jenkins, J. R., & Northcutt, K. V. (2019). An authentic research project in animal behavior as an introductory physics laboratory exercise. The Physics Teacher.
Komendarczyk, R., & Pullen, J. D. (2015). Finite Random Coverings of One-Complexes and the Euler Characteristic. Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis, 45(1), 129–156.