{"id":5,"date":"2016-05-12T13:01:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T13:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-03-02T21:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T21:47:57","slug":"home-plate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/","title":{"rendered":"JHR&#8217;s Home Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>John Rickert<br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Mathematics<\/h2>\n<p><b>Office:<\/b>\u00a0F-137, Moench Hall<br \/>\n<b>Phone:<\/b> (812) 877-8473<\/p>\n<p><b>Address:<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/math.aspx\"><!---http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/math\/home.php\"--><span style=\"color: #000080\"><u> Department of Mathematics<\/u><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology<\/span><\/u><\/a><br \/>\nTerre Haute, IN 47803<\/p>\n<p><b>e-mail:<\/b> <a href=\"mailto:john.rickert@rose-hulman.edu\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">john.rickert@rose-hulman.edu<\/span><\/u><\/a><br \/>\nMy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/~rickert\/Sked\/1516winter.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">schedule<\/span><\/u><\/a> is on-line. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I have pages for several of my <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/jhrs-class-pages-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">classes.<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Professional Background<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/~rickert\/Classes\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"color: #000080\">I am an associate professor of mathematics at Rose-Hulman. I grew up in<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wauwatosa.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000080;text-decoration: underline\">Wauwatosa<\/span><\/span><\/a>, Wisconsin, graduated from <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/hawthorne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000080;text-decoration: underline\">Hawthorne Jr. High<\/span><\/span><\/a>, from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/west.wauwatosa.k12.wi.us\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;text-decoration: underline\">Wauwatosa West<\/span><\/a><\/span> High School in 1980, got my B.A. in Mathematics and Astronomy-Physics from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisc.edu\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;text-decoration: underline\">The University of Wisconsin<\/span><\/a><\/span> in 1984 and my Ph.D. from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umich.edu\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;text-decoration: underline\">University of Michigan<\/span><\/a><\/span> in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>My research interest is in diophantine equations, most recently dealing with Pell-type equations, and in restricted partition functions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Course Information<\/h3>\n<p>During the Fall term I taught MA111, and <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/ma371-linear-algebra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">MA371<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<br \/>\nDuring Winter term I taught MA113.<\/p>\n<p>During the Spring term I am teaching MA190 and MA381<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I spent academic year 1997-8 on sabbatical at Penn State University (where I had an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/office-in-mcallister-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000080;text-decoration: underline\">office In McAllister Hall<\/span><\/a><\/span> with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/some-pictures-from-mcallister-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000080;text-decoration: underline\">windows<\/span><\/a><\/span>!) did some work on partition functions and used this as a basis to get some ideas for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/Class\/ma\/HTML\/REU\/NSF-REUbody.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\"> NSF-REU<\/span><\/u><\/a> program that I worked in the summers of 1999 and 2001.<\/p>\n<p>During the summer of 2022 I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/rsi.cee.org\/rsi.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">RSI<\/span><\/u><\/a>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/rsi\/www\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">2022<\/span><\/u><\/a>. My e-mail address there is <a href=\"mailto:jrickert@mit.edu\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">jrickert@mit.edu<\/span><\/u><\/a>. <!---I will be at RSI again during the summer of 2015.--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Other Interesting? Sites<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/american-regions-mathematics-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">An ARML home page<\/span><\/u><u> <\/u><\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 The real <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arml.com\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">ARML home page <\/span><\/u><\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/indiana-arml-history-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Indiana ARML history<\/span><\/u><\/a> page \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/indiana-arml-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Indiana ARML page<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Information about the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rhitmathcontest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Rose-Hulman High School Math Contest<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Terre Haute area <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/terre-haute-area-hs-problem-solving-sessions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Mathematical Problem Solving<\/span><\/u><\/a> for High School students<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/INMAA\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Indiana Section of the MAA<\/span><\/u><\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/icmc-winning-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">ICMC winners<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrosheet.org\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Retrosheet <\/span><\/u><\/a> Web Page<\/li>\n<li>The home page for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabr.org\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">The Society for American Baseball Research<\/span><\/u><\/a> (SABR)<\/li>\n<li>Other <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/jhrs-baseball-plate\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Baseball<\/span><\/u><\/a> related stuff.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mama.indstate.edu\/users\/swarens\/thcs\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Terre Haute Choral Society Information <\/span><\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/stuff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">stuff<\/span><\/u><\/a> friends might be marginally interested in.<\/li>\n<li>useless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/~rickert\/Data\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">data<\/span><\/u><\/a> that I&#8217;ve compiled<\/li>\n<li>Rose-Hulman&#8217;s Alfred R. Schmidt <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/the-27th-annual-alfred-r-schmidt-freshman-mathematics-competition-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\"> Freshman Mathematics Competition<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Back to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/math\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Mathematics Department Home Page. <\/span><\/u><\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/Class\/ma\/HTML\/index.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Mathematics Department Home Page. <\/span><\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Rose-Hulman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/tour\/printable\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\"> campus map<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Events Schedule for Rose-Hulman students<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Contest<\/th>\n<th>2022-2023<\/th>\n<th>2023-2024<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rickert\/the-27th-annual-alfred-r-schmidt-freshman-mathematics-competition-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\"> Alfred R. Schmidt<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\">Freshman Mathematics Competition<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<td>September, 2022<\/td>\n<td>September, 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.vt.edu\/people\/plinnell\/Vtregional\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Virginia Tech Math Contest<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<td>October, 2022<\/td>\n<td>October, 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/rhitmathcontest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">High School Mathematics Contest<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Saturday, November 12, 2022<\/td>\n<td>Saturday, November 11, 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/math.scu.edu\/putnam\/index.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Putnam Competition<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Saturday, December 3, 2022<\/td>\n<td>Saturday, December 2, 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comap.com\/undergraduate\/contests\/mcm\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Mathematical Contest in Modeling<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<td>February, 2023<\/td>\n<td>February, 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Regional MATHCOUNTS Competition<\/td>\n<td>February 4, 2017<\/td>\n<td>February, 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>State MATHCOUNTS Competition<\/td>\n<td>at Purdue<\/td>\n<td>March, 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Indiana College Math Competition<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/Indiana\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">IN MAA<\/span><\/u><\/a> meeting,<br \/>\nIU-Kokomo College<br \/>\nMarch 31, 2023<\/td>\n<td>Spring Indiana MAA meeting,<br \/>\nMarch, 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/class\/ma\/web\/mathconf\/2017\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Undergraduate Mathematics Conference<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<td>April 21-22, 2023<\/td>\n<td>April, 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Other departments<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/physics.aspx\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Physics and Optical Engineering<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/mechanical.aspx\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Mechanical<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/hss.aspx\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Humanities and Social Science<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/ce\/enviro-curriculum.htm\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Environmental<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/academics\/continuing-and-professional-studies\/engineering-management.aspx\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Eng. Management<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/academics\/academic-departments\/electrical-computer-engineering.aspx\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Electrical\/Computer<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/csse.aspx\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Computer Science and Software<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/civil.aspx\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Civil<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/chemistry.aspx\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Chemistry<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/cheme.aspx\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Chemical<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/academics\/academic-departments\/army-rotc.aspx\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Army ROTC<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/abbe.aspx\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Applied Biology and Biomedical<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">John Rickert Associate Professor of Mathematics Office:\u00a0F-137, Moench Hall Phone: (812) 877-8473 Address: Department of Mathematics Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN 47803 e-mail: john.rickert@rose-hulman.edu My schedule is on-line. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I have pages for several of my classes. &nbsp; Professional Background I am an associate professor of mathematics at Rose-Hulman. 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