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Jon P. Bannon

Department of Mathematics

Siena College


Office: Roger Bacon 446
Phone: (518) 783-2394
E-Mail: jbannon@siena.edu
Current Office Hours: M 10:30am-12:00pm, W 3:30pm-7:00pm

Current Courses:

Calculus I

Introduction to Applied Mathematics

School of Science Career Seminar

Research:
I study von Neumann algebras. In particular, I am interested in the structure of type II1 factors.

Here are some of my papers:

(2010) On the Spectrum of Operator-Valued Entire Functions (w/Rongwei Yang)
(2010) A Note on Non-Residually Solvable Hyperlinear One-Relator Groups (w/ Nick Noblett)
(2010) A Non-Residually Solvable Hyperlinear One-Relator Group
(2007) Some Remarks on Haagerup's approximation property (w/ Junsheng Fang)
(2006) A Følner invariant for type II factors (w/ Mohan Ravichandran)
(2004) Transitive families of projections in factors of type II1

CV

Math Resources/ Cool Stuff

Math Stack Exchange

MathOverflow

Calculus in 20 Minutes

What's Wrong With Mathematics Education

Siena Mathematics Colloquium

The Art of Problem Solving Wiki

Terry Tao's Homepage

List of Inequalities

Halmos on the Art of Mathematics

Interesting ideas on how we learn new math