Professor
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Science & Learning Center 208
562.907.4200, ext. 4459
jlutgen@whittier.edu
Academic History
B.A., California State University, Sacramento
M.S., Ph.D., University of Oregon
Academic Focus
- Differential Geometry
- Topology
- Computer Science
Academic Interests
Higher-order flatness of differentiable manifolds, scientific computing, graph theory, open source software development
Professional Activity
Recent Presentations
"Higher order flatness of some products and connected sums of smooth manifolds," Second International Conference of Applied Mathematics, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, August 2005
Publications
Lutgen, J., "A combinatorial proof of an alternating convolution identity for multichoose numbers," American Mathematical Monthly, 128, no. 2 (2016), 192–196
Sebanc, A., Guimond, A., and Lutgen, J., "Transactional Relationships Between Latinos’ Friendship Quality and Academic Achievement During the Transition to Middle School," Journal of Early Adolescence (2014), doi:10.1177/0272431614556347
Lutgen, J., "Higher order flatness of immersed manifolds,” Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 28, no. 2 (1998), 649-654
Lutgen, J., "Higher order flatness of lens spaces," Houston Journal of Mathematics, 22, no. 3 (1996), 511-532
