I've just uploaded a newly-updated curriculum vitae to the Curriculum Vitae page. It includes a few formatting changes to make things easier to read and a number of additions reflecting the stuff that I've been doing since last year. Have a look! 
 
 
For the first time in several months, I've tinkered with this web site! Nothing too dramatic -- I changed the design and color scheme (do you like it?) and deleted Dangerous Tasks from my list of blogs on the "Web Presence" page (since I no longer maintain that blog). 


I'll be attending the Higher Education Summit at Blog Indiana 2009 coming up on August 13. Blog Indiana is the state's largest social media conference, and at the higher education summit I'll be attending sessions on using Facebook in the classroom, getting college administrators to use Twitter, and other similar talks. (See also my recent Casting Out Nines post, The blogging VPAA.) 
 
 

Here are a few recent and upcoming items that will eventually make their way into the CV:

• I've been named to the editorial board of Mathematics Exchange, a journal of undergraduate research published through Ball State University. My role on the board will be mainly to recruit undergraduates to publish their stuff and to recruit mathematicians to referee, and possibly to do a little refereeing myself. Math Exchange is a great journal, very well-suited for undergraduates doing any kind of research or independent study, and I'm excited about forming this relationship with the fine folks who put that journal out.

• I found out last week that I will definitely be attending the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics this coming March. I went to the ICTCM last year and had a fabulous time. I'm currently vetting some ideas for talks and workshops to give at the ICTCM this year, and once I get those figured out and submitted, they'll be added to my CV.

• And speaking of Ball State, I've been invited to come up there in the spring and give a mathematical talk. I'll be talking either about digital signatures like I did at Benedictine University last April or about my work with cycle decompositions of columnar transposition ciphers.

 
Added: Skype 09/27/2008
 

I've just signed up for an account on Skype, the popular and (mostly) free VOIP calling service. You can find me (and talk to me) at the account robert.talbert. I've added this info to the Contacts page and the Web Presence page, and I shuffled a few more things around the Web Presence page having to do with internet contact info.

Enjoy!

 
 

I've added links to my accounts on Scribd and Slideshare to the web presence page. Scribd and Slideshare are like YouTube for documents and presentations,  respectively. Enjoy!

 
 

I've updated a new copy of my CV to reflect some changes in the publications section. My two MAA Reviews articles are now officially published (although you have to have an MAA membership to access them after Labor Day), and my paper for the ICTCM 2008 proceedings was officially accepted and will appear when the proceedings come out in March 2009.

Enjoy!

 
Link repairs 08/07/2008
 

For some reason, the links to my CV, teaching statement, and scholarship statement on their respective pages were giving a "file not found" error. I have reorganized those pages so that there is a little description of the document on top, then the Scribd-embedded version of the document, and then a new download link at the bottom. This was an issue with how Weebly does file transfers. Everything works now.

Of course if you can see the document embedded in the iPaper viewer, you can download a PDF version using the viewer, as well as search and print directly from the viewer. Some folks may have issues with that viewer because it's Flash-based.

 
 

I've added a Statement of Scholarship which can be viewed, searched, downloaded, embedded, etc. over on the new "scholarship" page. Or, click here.

Sometimes these kinds of documents are called "Research Statements", but since my view on scholarship is broader than the typical notion of research (read: "publish or perish") I decided to call it something a little more inclusive of the sorts of things I do.

 
 

I've just added a Teaching Statement (a.k.a. Statement of Teaching Philosophy) to the site here, and you can access on the newly-created teaching page. You can view it using the Scribd viewer -- a nifty little web gadget that also lets you save, print, and search the document -- or download a PDF straight from the link.

The Statement of Scholarship referred to at the end of the Teaching Statement is still under construction -- hopefully it will be done by the end of the week.

 
Welcome! 08/02/2008
 

This blog will contain announcements of additions and changes to this website as well as any other things I think might be interesting. You can subscribe to the RSS feed using the icon on the right. (If you don't know what RSS is, you're in for a treat -- read all about it here.)

Right now I am working on creating two more pages for this web site, one devoted to Teaching and the other to Scholarship. I am working (have been working for some weeks now) on creating a brand new Statement of Teaching Philosophy and a Statement of Scholarship. It's been five years since I updated my teaching statement, and I have actually never drafted a Scholarship statement! Or maybe I did when I was coming out of graduate school, and it's therefore horribly out of date. I've been publicizing the rough drafts of the new teaching philosophy at my main blog, Casting Out Nines, in articles you can find here and here.

Anyway, subscribe to the feed and keep checking back for updates.