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Professor Jane M. Hawkins

My latest book is out!!   Here is the table of contents.

Professor of Mathematics at University of North Carolina,  1987-2017

Professor Emerita, 2017-present

Current contact information:

  • Department of Mathematics
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Office:  Phillips 326
  • email:   jmh(at)math(dot)unc(dot)edu

I retired from teaching at UNC but I am still working professionally.

I published the book Ergodic Dynamics:  From Basic Theory to Applications in 2021 with Springer. Here is a link to the Springer page with the table of contents.

“Ergodic theory is a modern and widespread topic in dynamical systems generating surprising applications in several fields such as probability, number theory, mathematical physics and many others. A book like this one is a very useful tool to introduce this subject, in a didactic way, for students and young researchers, which is the proposal of this series.”

 

My book titled The Mathematics of Cellular Automata, published by the AMS Press, appeared in 2024.  This is a link to the AMS page with the table of contents.

“The book under review fills a gap in the mathematical market. There are many scholarly publications devoted to Cellular Automata (CA) and of course we have some books aimed at the task of popularizing the topic. But here we have a textbook ready for student courses and many teachers are probably going to gratefully adopt the book for their work.”

The book titled Mathematics for Artificial Intelligence  is now available.  It can be previewed here at the publisher’s website.

Publications

Some of my research publications are available here, I’m gradually filling in the old papers as they get digitized (and new papers as they get written).

Miscellaneous non-research articles are on this page.

Images

Here are some pages of Julia set image galleries:  Rectangular square lattices for iterated elliptic functions, real projective plane rational maps, rhombic square lattices for elliptic functions, punctured RP(2) Julia sets of dianalytic maps

 

I was the Treasurer of the American Mathematical Society for 10 years (not including the year of training), but on February 1, 2021 finished my fifth and final term.   Now I am the Treasurer of the Friends of the International Mathematical Union (FIMU).

I was a  Marshall Scholar (front row, far left).

 

I have been involved with the Carolina Dynamics annual meetings for 15+ years.  We published some proceedings with the AMS in 2019, which are linked here.  (Probably your library has a copy.)