Cambridge, MA- May 1, 2009- Today, the Worldwide Center of Mathematics, LLC, launched their first online journal: the Journal of Singularities. The Journal of Singularities is a refereed, online-only, journal of research articles on all aspects of the theory of singularities of spaces and maps. Our Editorial Board consists of world-renowned research mathematicians from this field and can be accessed at www.journalofsing.org and will be offered to the mathematics community at no-charge.
About the founding editor:
David B. Massey was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1959. He attended Duke University as an undergraduate mathematics major from 1977 to 1981, graduating summa cum laude. He remained at Duke as a graduate student from 1981 to 1986. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1986 for his results in the area of complex analytic singularities.
Professor Massey taught for two years at Duke as a graduate student, and then for two years, 1986-1988, as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame. In 1988, he was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and went to conduct research on singularities at Northeastern University. In 1991, he assumed a regular faculty position in the Mathematics Department at Northeastern. He has remained at Northeastern University ever since, where he is now a Full Professor.
Professor Massey has won awards for his teaching, both as a graduate student and as a faculty member at Northeastern. He has published 32 research papers, and two research-level books. In addition, he was a chapter author of the national award-winning book on teaching: “Dear Jonas: What can I say?, Chalk Talk: E-advice from Jonas Chalk, Legendary College Teacher”, edited by D. Qualters and M. Diamond, New Forums Press, (2004).
About the Worldwide Center of Mathematics, LLC:
The Worldwide Center of Mathematics, LLC was founded in the fall of 2008 by David B. Massey, an award-winning professor, with 26 years of college teaching experience, and a leading research mathematician in the area of singularities.
In addition to producing and publishing multimedia textbooks, the Center performs other free services for the mathematical community, such as a providing a freely-accessible mathematics journal, and recording and freely-distributing, via the Web, research lectures which are given before live audiences in our studio classroom. In the future, we hope to provide other services, such as walk-in tutoring for students in the greater-Boston area, and 24/7 online mathematics help.
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