Navin Kashyap
Associate Professor,
Mathematics and Engineering
Department of
Mathematics and Statistics
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
Office: 410 Jeffery Hall
Phone: (613) 533-6640
Fax: (613) 533-2964
E-mail: nkashyap[AT]mast.queensu.ca
Research Group:
Communications
(Applied
Mathematics)
Graduate Students Currently Being Supervised:
Past Graduate Students:
- Akiko Manada (PhD), graduated July 2009; now at the
Claude Shannon Institute, Dublin.
- Ya Meng (MSc), graduated Aug. 2009; now at the University of Alberta.
- Adam Cohen (MSc), graduated Nov. 2008; now at
Bump Technologies.
- Anda Vulpoiu (MSc), graduated Sept. 2006; now at Nortel Networks.
Research Interests
(Also see my
research
blurb.)
- Coding for Data Communication and Storage
- Source Coding, Data Compression, Data Synchronization
- Information Theory
- Symbolic Dynamics
- Discrete Applied Mathematics (a broad umbrella for much of what I do)
I organized (jointly with Pascal Vontobel and Emina Soljanin) a workshop at
the Banff International Research Station on
"Applications of Matroid Theory and Combinatorial Optimization
to Information and Coding Theory". Dates: Aug 2-7, 2009.
Academic Experience
(A slightly more detailed version is provided on a
separate page.)
- Postdoctoral Fellow (University of California - San Diego)
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering: Systems (University of Michigan)
- M.S. in Mathematics (University of Michigan)
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering (University of Missouri-Rolla)
- B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering
(Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
Teaching
- Winter 2009:
- Courses taught in previous terms:
- Matroid Methods (with a Focus on Applications to Coding Theory)
(MATH 978), Winter 2007.
- Introduction to Coding for Constrained Systems
(MATH 478/878), Winter 2006.
- Linear Algebra (APSC 174), Winter 2006.
- Probability I (STAT 251), Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004.
- Introduction to Coding Theory (MATH 406/806), Winter 2005,
Winter 2008.
- Probability Theory for Electrical Engineers (STAT 356),
Winter 2004.
Mandatory Reading/Viewing Material for Mathematicians
-
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Richard W. Hamming.
This essay was inspired by Eugene Wigner's original article,
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural
Sciences, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 13 (Feb. 1960).
- A Mathematician's Apology by G.H. Hardy.
The classic defence of (pure) mathematics.
-
A lecture video on How to Write Mathematics
by Paul R. Halmos, with an introduction by
Don Knuth.
(There was an article by Halmos on this topic available online at one point,
but it seems to have vanished off the tangle of the web.)
Non-Academic Activities
- I support Asha for Education,
a charitable organization working towards the education of
underprivileged children in India. I am actively involved with the
Canadian chapter.
-
I play squash regularly, and am always open to playing with people I haven't
played before. Send me an email if you want a game.
