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Dr. James McLaughlin
Professor
College of Sciences and Mathematics - Mathematics
Bio
Dr. James McLaughlin's present interests are in the area of basic hypergeometric series and related areas, such as integer partitions. He is currently working on various problems related to vanishing coefficients in the series expansions of various eta quotients, the resolution of some of these problems requiring an appeal to some properties of multiplicative modular forms.
Education
- B.Sc., University of Ulster, N. Ireland, 1979
- PGCE, Queens University, N. Ireland, 1982
- M.Sc., University College, Ireland, 1996
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002