Mark W. Johnson's Homepage
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Penn State Altoona
- Office
- Dr. Johnson's office is 113 Hawthorn, which is in the first
floor office wing.
- Contact Information
- The best way to contact Dr. Johnson is via email,
at mwj3@psu.edu.
Alternatively, you could call his office at
(814) 949-5758 (simply extension 5758 from any campus phone).
- Regular mail
- Mark W. Johnson
Penn State Altoona
3000 Ivyside Park
Altoona, PA 16601-3760
- Office Hours
- Regular office hours will be held MW 10:00--10:50 AM,
TR 11:00--11:50 AM, or by appointment.
Students should consider these times as a standing
appointment with the instructor and take advantage of this
opportunity to have questions answered or to receive help with
background difficulties. Dr. Johnson is also available at
certain other times by appointment, so if you cannot make any of these
times, ask to meet him at another time.
- Teaching
- This fall semester, Dr. Johnson is teaching
Math 40.
- Academic Advising
- This advising page is
intended as a starting point for Altoona students planning
to earn their degree from the Smeal College of Business.
- Outreach and Community Service
- This is a description of work with area high school teachers,
where the primary focus is to make college faculty into a
resource for high school teachers in the same discipline.
Among other things, Dr. Johnson spent a semester teaching a course
at one area high school.
- Mathematical Research
- Dr. Johnson's reasearch area is in algebraic topology, but includes
fairly broad interests within that field.
- BSF Grant Information
- A collaborative research proposal with David Blanc (U. Haifa),
Jim Turner (Calvin C.) has been funded for
2007 through 2011 by the U.S.-Israel Binational Science
Foundation (BSF), including a postdoctoral position.
- Conference Information
- Dr. Johnson is the corresponding
organizer of an American Mathematical
Society special session at the Jan. 2009 annual Joint Mathematics
Meetings, in Washington, D.C.
- Computer Science Research
- An important question in theoretical computer science is to
find a denotational semantics (that is, a formal mathematical
framework) for analyzing theoretical constructs such as protocols.
Ongoing efforts to propose categorical options are
included here.