3909 Ceanothus Place Apt. H Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 880-9439
lrcowart@pepperdine.edu
| EDUCATION | - B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science/Mathematics, Pepperdine University 2002
- GPA 3.37
- Activities: Played in Pepperdine community symphony (Fall 1998), attended conferences of the Mathematical Association of America (Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002)
- Honors and Awards: Howard A. White Academic Scholarship (1998-2002), Associated Women for Pepperdine scholarship (1998-2002), Charles Darnell Scholarship for Computer Science (2000-2002), National Dean's List (Fall 2001), Mathematics Department Outstanding Student Award (April 2002); Honorable Mention for Best Research Poster, MAA Southern California section meeting, Spring 2003.
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| PROGRAMMING SKILLS | - Fluent in C/C++ and Java
- Programming experience with Lisp, Prolog, Pascal, and Component Pascal
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| OPERATING SYSTEMS KNOWN | - Extensive experience with Windows 3.x, 9x, 2000, XP, SUN Unix
- Familiar with Mandrake and RedHat Linux, and Mac OS 9.x
- Experience with Mandrake 7.0 kernel programming
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| NETWORKING SKILLS | - Familiar with TCP/IP and UDP protocols
- Experience with Java socket programming
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| MATHEMATICS RESEARCH | - Directed Studies research project Summer 2001: with one other student, designed and built a distributed computing system to classify knots based on their topological invariants
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| PUBLICATIONS | - Rational Points of Order Four on Elliptic Curves, accepted April 2003 by the American Journal of Undergraduate Research (revision pending).
- A Paleographic Perspective on Schrage's Algorithm, with J. Stanley Warford--forthcoming.
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| TALKS GIVEN | - How Random is Random?, Pepperdine math department's Tuesday Tea, April 2003
- The Significance of the New Primality Test, Pepperdine math department's Tuesday Tea, March 2003
- Number Theory in Hamming Error Correcting Codes, Pepperdine math department's Tuesday Tea, January 2003
- A Nonstandard Proof of Euler's Formula, Pepperdine math department's Tuesday Tea, November 12, 2002
- Basics of Algebraic Geometry, required as part of Pepperdine's Math 431 (Galois Theory), April 2002
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| EXPERIENCE | {To Be Completed Soon} |
| VOLUNTEER WORK | |