Moa Apagodu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics


Contact

Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics
1001 West main Street
Richmond, Virginia 23284
Phone 804 828 5984
e-mail : mapagodu  [at] vcu [dot] edu

Teaching

Past Teaching:    Differential Equations (Math 301),  Introduction to Combinatorics (Math 525) , Analysis I (Math 507), Analysis II (Math 508),
                          Calculus I (Math 200), Calculus II (Math 201), Calculus III (Math 307), Mathematical Structures (Math 211).

Current Teaching:   Mathematical Reasoning (Seasoning!) (Math 300) and  Multivariable Calculus (Calculus III) (Math 307).

Education/Research

Ph.D.  Rutgers University - The State University of New Jersey.
M.A. Temple University.
M.Sc. and B.Sc.  Addis Ababa University.
Ph.D. Adviser :   Professor  Doron Zeilberger

Research Interest

Enumerative and Algebraic Combinatorics, Cobinatorial Number Theory, Computer Algebra/Algorithmic Proof Methods, and Experimental Mathematics.


Publications


1. Counting hexagonal lattice animals confined to a strip, with Stirling Chow, submitted.  HexaLattice

2. Searching for Strange Identities with Sheer Brute Force, (2008),  With Doron Zeilberger,  Appeared in INTEGERS, 8(2008), A36.

3. FIVE Applications of Wilf-Zeilberger Theory to Enumeration and Combinatorics, with Doron Zeilberger,  Computer Alebra 2006,  Latest Advance in Symbolic Algorithms,  edited by Ilias Kotsireas and Eugene Zima, (2007).

4. Multi-variable Zeilberger and Alkumvist-Zeilberger Algorithms and the Sharpening of Wilf-Zeilberger Theory, with Doron Zeilberger, Adv. Appl. Math. 37(2006)(Special Regev issue), 139-152.

5. Infinite Families of Accelerating Series for some Classical Constants Using Markoc-WZ-Method, J. Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, 7, No 1(2005), 11-24.

6. The q-Markov-Method, Annals of Combinatorics, 9(2005), 205-221.

7. Sharp Upper Bounds for the Order of The Recurrence Outputted by the Zeilberger and q-Zeilberger Algorithms, with Doron Zeilberger, J. of Symbolic Computation, 39(2005), 201-207.

8. The Markov-WZ-Method, with Doron Zeilberger, Elect. J. of Combinatorics, V11(1), R53.8. A



Relevant Maple Packages

1.  Maple accompaning  the paper     "Counting hexagonal lattice animals confined to a strip "

From [Z1] in ref. :   ANIMALS,   FreeANIMALS

The Main programs:  HexaANIMALS,   HexaFreeANIMALS



Personal Journal

1. One-parameter generalizations of Ramanujan's Formul for pi. pdf

2.     Nineteen Strange 2F1  identities accompaning the article " Searching for Strange identities by Sheer Brute Force "  Nineteen


Link

Mathematics Books Available for Free Downloading on WWW:

 Prof. Herbert Wilf 's Books

Alexandre Stefanov's List

Online Electronic Journals in Mathematics
 
James E. SteHumphres's List