Ian M. Anderson joined the Department of Mathematics at Utah State University in
1979. Since then he has held visiting positions at the Univ. of Minnesota, Univ. of Utah,
Univ. of Washington, Univ. of North Carolina and the Univ. of Montreal. 

His field of research is differential geometry and its applications to mathematical
physics and differential equations. Specific areas of expertise include the inverse
problem of the calculus of variations, variational bicomplexes, symmetric methods in
general relativity, symmetry reduction of differential equations and variational
principles, exterior differential systems theory and solution generating techniques for
differential equations. He is the author or co-author of more that 40 journal articles
and conference proceedings and author of the DifferentialGeometry software package, part
of the Maple distributed library. This research has been supported regularly by grants
from the National Science Foundation. Professor Anderson is frequently an invited speaker
at international differential geometry conferences and workshops. 

Professor Anderson has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate classes. He
especially enjoys teaching advanced calculus, differential equations, differential
geometry, linear algebra, and Lie theory. He is currently advising 4 graduate students.

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How To Create The Quaternion & Octonion Algebras (with Thomas J. Apedaile), How to... in 10 minutes or less (2013)

We show how to create the quaternion and octonion algebras with the DifferentialGeometry software. For...

 

How to Create a Clifford Algebra (with Thomas J. Apedaile), How to... in 10 minutes or less (2013)

We show how to create a Clifford algebra in Maple using the DifferentialGeometry LieAlgebras package.

 

The Octonions and the Exceptional Lie Algebra G2, Research Applications (2012)

The octonions O are an 8-dimensional non-commutative, non-associative normed real algebra. The set of all...

 

Higher Order Symmetries of the KdV Equation, Research Applications (2012)

In this worksheet we symbolically construct the formal inverse of the total derivative operator and...

 

How to Create a Lie Algebra, How to... in 10 minutes or less (2012)

We show how to create a Lie algebra in Maple using three of the most...

 

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