Gene Abrams

Gene Abrams is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Oregon in 1981. He is the coordinator of the UCCS MathOnLine program, a distance-learning delivery method for mathematics which allows advanced high school students to take UCCS mathematics courses via the Internet. He has written and spoken widely on issues in mathematics education, and has been actively involved in mathematics-oriented community outreach K-12 educational activities. Gene has published research articles and lectured extensively (both in the U.S. and Europe) on the topic of associative rings and their modules. His current area of mathematics investigation, a subject called Leavitt path algebras, is a topic of interest in both algebra and C*-analysis research circles. Gene has been honored with various teaching awards, including: the “2002 Teacher of the Year” by the Mathematical Association of America Rocky Mountain Section, “President’s Teaching Scholar” by the University of Colorado System (lifetime designation made in 1996), and the 1988 campuswide “Outstanding Teaching Award” by UCCS. He spends his spare time mountain biking, cross country skiing, and living / eating / sleeping baseball.

The Café management, in the interests of full disclosure, must point out that Gene is capable of writing stuff like this:
Abstract: For any row finite graph E and any field K we construct the Leavitt path algebra L(E) having coefficients in K. When K is the field of complex numbers, then L(E) is the algebraic analog of the Cuntz Krieger algebra C*(E). The matrix rings Mn(K) and the Leavitt algebras L(1, n) appear as algebras of the form L(E) for various graphs E. In our main result, we give necessary and sufficient conditions on E which imply that L(E) is simple.