Shishuo Fu Graduate Teaching Associate The Pennsylvania State University
Mailing Address	Department of Mathematics 109 McAllister Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802
Office Address	Department of Mathematics 016 McAllister Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802
Phone	814-865-8951
E-Mail	fu AT math DOT psu DOT edu

CV (in pdf) | Education | Research | Publications | Teaching |

Education

Ph.D. Candidate, The Pennsylvanisa State University, 2005-2011.

Thesis Title: Bijective methods and combinatorial studies of problems in partition theory and related areas. (Abstract)

B.S., Tsinghua University, 2001-2005.

Research Interests

Enumerative Combinatorics

Partition Theory

Advisors: George E. Andrews & Ae Ja Yee

For more details on my research work, please take a look at my Research Statement.

We are going to host GSCC (Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference) 2011. Interested? Click here.

Publications & Preprints

• A proof of Bressoud´ s conjecture related to the Rogers-Ramanujan identities, European Journal of Combinatorics 31: 2141-2148 (2010).
• Combinatorial Proof Of One Congruence For The Broken 1-diamond Partition And A Generalization, International Journal of Number Theory, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2011) 1-12.
• Enumeration of the degree sequences of line--Hamiltonian multigraphs, with James A. Sellers, submitted to Discrete Mathematics (preprint in pdf).
• A Conjecture On The (q,t)-Binomial Coefficients, with Victor Reiner and Dennis Stanton, in preparation.
• q-Orthogonal Polynomial and Lacunary Partition Functions, in preparation.

Teaching Experience

Primary Instructor, Penn State

• Fall 2010, Math 220: Matrices
• Math 21 (Pilot Mastery Program): College Algebra I
• Math 22: College Algebra II
• Math 26: Plane Trigonometry
• Math 231: Calculus of Several Variables
• Math 251: Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations

Recitation Instructor, Penn State

• Math 110: Techniques of Calculus I

Promoted to the Teaching Associate Status at Fall 2010

Serving as Mentor for 3 junior GTAs at Fall 2010

For my perspective on teaching, please take a look at my Teaching Statement. To give numerical evidence of the effectiveness of my teaching, I have also put together this Teaching Portfolio.