Shaun Ault, PhD
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Physics at Valdosta State University
From Valdosta, GA
From Valdosta, GA
Dr. Shaun Ault joined the Valdosta State University faculty in September 2012. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from The Ohio State University, a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics with a minor in computer science from Oberlin College, and a Bachelor of Music in music composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He is a Certified Institutional Review Board Professional and holds membership in the Mathematical Association of America, American Mathematical Society, and Advisory Council for the Mathematical Sciences. He previously taught at Fordham University and the Ohio State University. In addition to working in the field of higher education, he worked as owner and operator of Targeted Tutoring and Teaching, tutor for Study Point/Prep Now, and mathematics consultant and programmer for Tri-Source Title Agency.
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Department Head at Valdosta State University
July 2017 - Present
Associate Professor at Valdosta State University
During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 2012-Present VSU Faculty Scholarship Awards, Multiple awards totaling over $6000
August 2016 - Present
Assistant Professor at Valdosta State University
During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 2015 Affordable Learning Georgia Grant (ALG), PI, $10,800
* 2014 Faculty Research Seed Grant, $5000
* 2013-14 WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) $1000+
* 2013 Major Scientific Equipment Funding Pool, Co-PI, $60,659.66
August 2012 - July 2016
Owner and Sole Proprietor at Targeted Tutoring and Teaching
March 2011 - Present
Tutor at StudyPoint/PrepNow
December 2008 - May 2015
Peter M. Curran Visiting Assistant Professor at Fordham University
During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 2009, 2010 Summer Science Internship Stipend (two awards)
September 2008 - August 2012
Graduate Teaching Assistant at Ohio State University
June 2007 - August 2008
Mathematics Consultant and Programmer at Tri-Source Title Agency
April 2007 - September 2007
Assistant to the WeBWorK Administrator at Ohio State University
October 2004 - August 2006
VIGRE Fellow, Teaching Assistant at Ohio State University
During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 2002-2006 VIGRE fellowship
June 2002 - May 2007
Assistant Network Technician at Oberlin College
During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 1997-2001 Oberlin Science Scholar Award
June 2000 - December 2001
“Homology Operations in Symmetric Homology”
April 19, 2019. Research Colloquium, Georgia Southern University
April 2019 -
Presentations
“Toward an Understanding of Skewed-Top Corridors”
March 8, 2019. MAA-SE Meetings at Lee University in Cleveland, TN
March 2019 -
Presentations
“Toward an Understanding of Skewed-Top Corridors”
Jan. 17, 2019. Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, MD
January 2019 -
Presentations
“Homology Operations in Symmetric Homology”
September 17, 2017. AMS Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting (Special Session on Cohomology, Deformations, and Quantum Groups) at the University of Bu alo, NY
September 2017 -
Presentations
“Teaching Algorithms using the Josephus Problem and Music”
March 10, 2017. MAA-SE Meetings, Special Session on Mathematics and Art at Mercer University in Macon, GA
March 2017 -
Presentations
“WeBWorK Experiences: Hands-On Introduction to WeBWorK”
July 7, 2016. Open Mathematics 9/11 in Action conference, Middle Georgia State University
July 2016 -
Presentations
“Teaching Calculus with OER, Including WeBWorK”
Apr. 14, 2016. USG Teaching and Learning Conference, UGA
April 2016 -
Presentations
“The Fibonacci Sequence in Corridor Lattices”
March 26, 2016. MAA Southeast Sectional, Birmingham, AL (impromptu presentation to fill in for a cancelled speaker, co-presented with Charles Kicey)
March 2016 -
Presentations
“Counting Corridor Paths Using Fourier Methods”
March 25, 2016. MAA Southeast Sectional, Birmingham, AL (2 hour Workshop, co-presented with Charles Kicey)
March 2016 -
Presentations
“What Mathematical Research Looks Like”
Nov. 15, 2013 (VSU MAA invited talk)
November 2015 -
Presentations
“Counting Corridor Paths Using Fourier Methods”
Oct. 22, 2015. VSU Student/Faculty Colloquium (co-presenters: Charles Kicey, Brooke Johnson, Geo rey Buie-Collard)
October 2015 -
Presentations
“Discrete Lattice Paths, Fourier, and Random Walks”
March 5, 2015. VSU Science Seminar (co-presenters: Charles Kicey, Brooke Johnson)
March 2015 -
Presentations
“From Signal Processing to Lattice Paths”
Jan. 12, 2015. (Research talk given at the 2015 Joint Mathematical Meetings)
January 2015 -
Presentations
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Student Writing in College Algebra”
part of a panel presentation entitled “Lessons Learned from a WAC Project at Valdosta State University,” Apr. 4, 2014. (Student Success in Writing Conference, sponsored by Georgia Southern University, held in Savannah, GA)
April 2014 -
Presentations
“Bott Periodicity in the ‘Hit Problem’”
Nov. 9, 2013. Lloyd Roeling UL-Lafayette Mathematics Conference on Topology (invited conference talk)
November 2013 -
Presentations
“Random Permutations in Cryptanalysis: An Analysis of Periodic Block Ciphers”
Apr. 4, 2013, Pi Mu Epsilon Induction Ceremony Talk
April 2013 -
Presentations
“The ‘Hit Problem’ – An Open Problem in the Steenrod Algebra”
Sept. 20, 2012. Invited Colloquium presentation, University of Louisiana Math Dept. Colloquium
September 2012 -
Presentations
“Cycles in Music and the Mathematics of Rhythm”
Jan. 31, 2013. Seminar presentation for the VSU Science Seminar (presented previously as invited talk for the Fordham University Pi Mu Epsilon Induction Ceremony on May 7, 2012)
May 2012 -
Presentations
“The Infinitude of the Primes”
– Proofs from THE BOOK, April 3, 2012. Invited talk, New York Math Circle, Math and Dinner Series, New York, NY
April 2012 -
Presentations
“Progress on the Hit Problem”
Sept. 21, 2012. Invited seminar talk. University of LA Topology Seminar (presented previously at the Valdosta State University Math Seminar [February 7, 2012, Valdosta, GA])
February 2012 -
Presentations
“Elements Partially Annihilated by the Steenrod Algebra”
January 5, 2012. AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory, MIT Satellite Conference. MIT, Cambridge, MA (presented previously at the Union College Mathematics Conference [April 30, 2011, Schenectady, NY] and the CUNY Graduate Center’s Algebraic Topology Seminar [Dec. 8, 2010, New York, NY])
April 2011 -
Presentations
“Extending Stanley’s Algorithm to Projective Group Imbeddings”
March 16, 2010. Algebraic Geometry Seminar, The Ohio State University
March 2010 -
Presentations
“On the Symmetric Homology of Algebras”
October 12, 2008. AMS Sectional meeting in Algebraic 10/11 Topology, in honor of Bill Singer at Wesleyan University
October 2008 -
Presentations
Relations among the kernels and images of Steenrod squares acting on right A-modules
Shaun V. Ault. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 216 (2012), 1428-1437.
Articles
International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing
Shaun V. Ault, Rene J. Perez, Chloe A. Kimble, and Jin Wang. On Speech Recognition Algorithms, Vol. 8, No. 6, (2018).
Articles
An Overview of Google Brain and Its Applications
Mallory Helms, Guifen Mao, Shaun V. Ault, and Jin Wang. ICBDE ‘18 Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Big Data and Education, pp. 72-75, doi:10.1145/3206157.3206175 (2018).
Articles
Overview on DeepMind and Its AlphaGo Zero AI
Sean D. Holcomb, William K. Porter, Shaun V. Ault, Guifen Mao, and Jin Wang. ICBDE ‘18 Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Big Data and Education, pp. 67-71, doi:10.1145/3206157.3206174 (2018).
Articles
Understanding Topology: a Practical Introduction
Shaun V. Ault. Johns Hopkins University Press (2018). (textbook)
Articles
Introducing Abstract Mathematics through Digit Sums and Cyclic Patterns
Shaun V. Ault and Sudhir Goel. Georgia Journal of Science, Vol. 74, Article 20 (2016).
Articles
Homology Operations in Symmetric Homology
Shaun V. Ault. Homotopy, Homology, and Applications, 16(2):239–261 (2014).
Articles
Counting paths in corridors using circular Pascal arrays
Shaun V. Ault and Charles Kicey. Discrete Mathematics, 332(6):45-54, (2014).
Articles
Bott Periodicity in the Hit Problem
Shaun V. Ault. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 156:545-554, 3 (2014).
Articles
Erdős-Szekeres Tableaux
Shaun V. Ault and Benjamin Shemmer. Order, pp.1–12 (2013).
Articles
Statistics of random permutations and the cryptanalysis of periodic block ciphers
Gregory V. Bard, Shaun V. Ault, and Nicolas T. Courtois. Cryptologia 36 (2012), 240-262.
Articles
On the homology of elementary Abelian groups as modules over the Steenrod algebra
Shaun V. Ault and William Singer. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 215 (2011), 2847-2852.
Articles
Symmetric Homology of Algebras
Shaun V. Ault. Algebraic & Geometric Topology 10 (2010), 2343-2408.
Articles
Implementation of Stanley’s algorithm for projective group imbeddings
Shaun V. Ault and Roy Joshua. The Journal of Symbolic Computation 44 (2009), 655-672.
Articles
“Teaching Algorithms using the Josephus Problem and Music”
Shaun V. Ault and Matthew Cliatt.
Articles
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Student Writing in College Algebra”
Shaun V. Ault.Slides published electronically on the Student Success in Writing Open Access repository. Aug. 1, 2014.
Articles
Shaun Ault Receives Degree From Georgia Tech
Shaun Ault of Valdosta, GA, has earned a Master of Science in Analytics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Ault was among approximately 7,200 undergraduate and graduate students...
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