I'm an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the Math and CS Department here at Amherst College. Before that, I was an NSF-sponsored Research Postdoc in the Math Department at Boston University. Before that, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Math Department at the University of Rochester.

I'm also a regular participant at the Five College Number Theory Seminar .

Courses

Math 11 (Intro to the Calculus), Spring 2008

Math 26 (Groups, Rings, and Fields), Spring 2008

Research

Research Interests: Number Theory and Dynamics

List of papers (includes abstracts and dvi files)

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Data from the Small Heights for Cubic Polynomials 2007 REU

Department of Mathematics and CS
Amherst College
P. O. Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002-5000

Office: Seeley Mudd 403
Office Phone: (413) 542-8562
Fax: (413) 542-2550
E-mail: rlb at cs dot amherst dot edu