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Professor Carol Shubin

Contact Information

Courses

Online Tutoring

  • M150A - Calculus Online Tutoring Center, link
  • AP Statistics Online Tutoring, link
  • AP Calculus and Math Analysis Online Tutoring, link

Exercises for Students on the CSU Budget

Cost of College, (Lecture and Exercise)

Using Math to Study the CSU Budget Crisis: Why Are YOU Paying Higher Fees? (PDF)

Fixed vs Variable Cost Assignment (PDF)

Executive Privileges (PDF)

CSUN Student Loan Default Rate (PDF)

Funded Projects

CSUN Educational Talent Search Online Math Tutoring (with John Dye and Evelyn Garcia)

NSF STEP funded project (with Alex Alexander, Werner Horn and Jacek Polewczak) Preparation for the Mathematics Placement Test (link) and M150AL Calculus I Laboratory (link)

Funding from the Chancellors Office and CSUN Academic Affairs joint work with Jacek Polewczak, ELM quiz and ELM exam prep

One Laptop per Child: Training Program for California State University Northridge Peace Corps Master's International in Math and Secondary Education Students, Proposal PDF

NSF LSAMP Bridges to the Doctorate (Co-PI) with K. Marsaglia (PI), C. Cadavid, K. Pellitier, 8/2009- 7/2011

Beck Grant with G. Melara: Voice Recognition Project, 7/2009-6/2010. (Report)
David Robert's Project
Nick Dwork's Project

African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative Visiting Scholar award to Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, 12/2008 - 1/2009.
Final Report from AMMSI Funding

Fulbright Scholarship at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, 1/2007 - 6/2007.
Final Report,
Presentation, and
Article

NSF SGER: Completion of recent works of Thomas H. Wolff, funded 7/2001-6/2002.

NASA CSUN/JPL PAIR: Analyzing data sets, funded 2/2000-6/2005. (Final Report)

CSUPERB: Development of DNA Analysis course, funded 9/2000-6/2001.

NSF POWRE: Improving mathematics education for pre-service teachers, funded 8/1999-1/2001.

NSF DMS RUI: Spectral properties of random Schrodinger operators, funded 6/1996-9/2000.

NSF DMS: Spectral properties of random Schrodinger operators, funded 6/1994-6/1996.

NATO Collaborative Research Grant, CRG 951351 (with colleagues in Toulon, France), 6/1996-9/1998.

NSF: DMS 9210806, 6/1992-6/1994.

US-Sweden workshop in Spectral Methods of Mathematical Physics, Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden, 5/1993.

Miscellaneous

CSUN Peace Corps Master's International Program and Article.

CSUN Peace Corps Master's International program at CSUN, brochure and "CSUN on Point:the Flight Not Taken" video.

CSU: The Next 50 Years

CSUN Faculty -- Speak Out

Community Outreach

Liason for the Algebra Summer Camp (Rev. Thomas) and CSUN

Memorandum of Understanding

Nelson Mandela - Arusha Science and Technology Institute (in work)

Peace Corps

Kigali Institute of Science and Technology

Huntington Memorial Research Institute

Biographical

Tom Wolff's Site

AMS Article on Tom Wolff

Herbert Shubin's Site

Picture of Professor
Education

PhD, Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles, 1989.

Research Area: Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics. Advisor: Gregory Eskin.

Positions Held

California State University Northridge, Professor of Mathematics.

African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative Scholar, at Kigali Institute of Science and Mathematics, 12/2008-1/2009.

Fulbright Scholar at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, 1/2007-6/2007.

Princeton University, Visiting Fellow, 1/1996-6/1996.

Centre de Physique Theoretique, Marseille, France, Visiting Professor, 7/1991 -12/1991, one month in summers 1992, 1993, 2003.

UCLA, Adjunct Professor, 1990-91.

Universite de Paris Sud, France, Chateaubriand Fellow, 1989-90.

CSU Aligning the Mission and the Budget
  1. Remarks from the BoT Finance Committee, by Harry Hellenbrand and Carol Shubin, March 2013, text (PDF)
  2. The Way to Increase Productivity: Allow More Campus Autonomy, text (PDF)
  3. A Plan for CSUN Equity Increases, by Carol Shubin, Werner Horn, Ivor Weiner, Feb. 2013, text (PDF)
  4. The Case for Equity Increases for CSUN Instructional Staff, Jan 2013, text (PDF)
  5. Comments to the CSU Board of Trustees Finance Committee, Jan 2013, text (PDF)
  6. Letter to the Board of Trustees President, Bob Linscheid, Jan 2013, text (PDF)
  7. CSUN Forum on Tax Initiatives - Prop 30 and Prop 38, Sept. 2012. (link and article)
  8. CSUN: Prop 30 & 38 debate, Sept. 2012. (Part 1 and Part 2)
  9. The Case for Increasing Enrollment and Leveraging Marginal Costs: CSUN Case Study, by H. Hellenbrand, W. Horn, C. Shubin and J. Stinner, Aug. 2012. To appear in the Journal of Higher Education Management (v.28, N.1). (PDF)
  10. A Faculty Member's Perspective on CSUN Faculty, Aug. 2012. (PDF)
  11. CSU Board of Trustees, Finance Committee, July 2012. (PDF)
  12. On CSUN Students, by Carol Shubin and Werner Horn, July 2012. (PDF)
  13. Aligning the CSU Mission and Funding, by Carol Shubin, Ivor Weiner, and Cheryl Spector, June 2012. (PDF)
  14. CSU Crisis in Priorities; No Enrollment Cuts, April 2012. (PDF)
  15. Recommended Revisions to the California State University Northridge 10-Year Resource Study (draft 1/31/2012), by Carol Shubin and Werner Horn, Department of Mathematics, CSUN, March 2012. (PDF)
  16. On Receiving the Boot: a Comic Response to Provost Hellenbrand's Essay "Time to Reboot", Feb. 2012. (PDF)
  17. CSU Future: Proposed Funding Topics, Nov. 2011. (PDF)
  18. General Fund Spending Priorities, Nov. 2011. (PDF)
  19. What is Shared Governance? Nov. 2011. (PDF)
  20. One Billion Dollar Bet to CSU Board of Trustees, Address to the CSU Board of Trustees Finance Committee, Nov. 2009. (PDF)
  21. Letter to the CSUN Faculty Senate, Aug. 2009. (PDF)
CSU Future Group Meetings
  1. CSU Future Talking Points, April 2012. (PDF)
  2. Funding the Future of the CSU, April 2 and 3, 2012. Symposium Report and Summary of Working Sessions.
  3. CSU Future Choices. Letter to Senate Executive Committee, August 2011. (PDF)
  4. Formation of a CSU Choices Group, Letter to Executive Committe Academic Senate Aug. 2011. (PDF)
  5. CSU, The Next 50 Years, April 22, 2011
  6. The Times They Are a-Changin', January 18, 2011
  7. Subgroups for the CSU Choices Group, Aug. 2011. (PDF)
Forbidden Topics Seminar Series
  1. Forum on Shared Governance, Nov. 2012. (PDF)
  2. Forum on Spotlight on SFR, May 2012. (PDF)
  3. Forum on Professional Representation, Oct. 2011. (PDF)
  4. Forum of CFA, Faculty, and the Future of the CSU May 2011. (PDF)
Mathematics Online: Reports
  1. Improved Enrollment and Pass Rates in Calculus I, by W. Horn and C Shubin. (PDF)
  2. Online Calculus Tutoring, by A. Alekseenko, C. Shubin, J. Polewczak and S. Cullen, Department of Mathematics, CSUN, Feb. 2011. (PDF) Funded by Academic Affairs
  3. California State University Online Math Tutoring Support Center: Homework, Assessment and Tutoring to Support Students, Project Proposal May 2011. (PDF)
  4. USAID Unsolicited Concept Paper, by Carol Shubin, Department of Mathematics, CSUN, March 2011. (PDF)
  5. Online Math Tutoring Services Aimed at Increasing Retention for Students in M150A Calculus I , Sept. 2010 (PDF)
  6. Moodle versus WebCT 8 and Blackboard 9 by Jacek Polewczak and Carol Shubin (PDF and HTML)
Publications
  1. An inverse problem for the Schrodinger equation with radial potential, Journal of Differential Equations, vol. 103 #2, (1993), 47-259.
  2. (with R. Carlson) Spectral rigidity for radial Schrodinger operators, Journal of Differential Equations, vol. 113 #2, (1994), 338-354.
  3. (with G. Stolz) Spectral theory of one-dimensional Schrodinger operators with point interactions, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 184 #3, (1994), 491-516.
  4. Singular perturbations of integral equations with degenerate kernels, Journal of Integral Equations and Operator Theory, vol. 24, (1996), 328-351.
  5. (with R. Carlson and R. Threadgill*) Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problems with finitely many singularities, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 204, (1996), 74-101.
  6. (with W. N. Everitt, G. Stolz, and A. Zettl) Sturm-Liouville problems with an infinite number of interior singularities, Lecture notes in pure and applied mathematics vol. 191, (1997), 211- 250.
  7. (with R. Vakilian and T. Wolff) Some harmonic analysis questions suggested by Anderson-Bernoulli models, Journal of Geometric and Functional Analysis, vol. 8, (1998), 932 - 964.
  8. (with W. Horn) Analytic treatment of a bridged crack problem, Zamm 81 (2001) 5, 317-324.
  9. (with W.Schlag and T. Wolff) Frequency concentration and localization lengths for the Anderson model at small disorders, Journal D'Analyse Mathematique vol.88, (2002), 173-220.
  10. (with T. Wolff) Contraction estimates on groups, Proceedings of the Conference in Honor of Leonid Pastur, Markov Processes and Related Fields, vol 9 #4, (2003), 829-840.
  11. Singularly perturbed integral equations, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 313 (2006) 234-250.

* Threadgill was an undergraduate co-author.

Books

(T. Wolff) Lectures on Harmonic Analysis, American Mathematical Society, University Lecture Series, Vol 29 (Editors: I. Laba and C. Shubin), 2003.

Other Editorial Work

(T. Wolff) A general contraction property of PSL(2,R), Journal D'Analyse Mathematique vol.88, (2002), 7-26.

(T.Wolff) A general spectral gap property for measures, Journal D'Analyse Mathematique vol.88, (2002), 27-34.

All work was NSF supported.

Honors

NASA named the CSUN/JPL PAIR program as "Exemplary" in its Minority Education Initiatives Report to the White House, 2000-01.

Received CSUN Outstanding Professor award, 2006.

PAIR Program Created & Taught Courses
  1. Global Positioning Systems and Earthquake Fault Determination PAIR Site.
  2. Satellite Navigation and Orbit Determination Moodle Site and PAIR Site.
  3. Analysis of Solar Irradiance Data PAIR Site.
  4. Voice Recognition Moodle Site and PAIR Site
  5. Diffusion Tensor Imaging PAIR Site.
  6. Statistical Determination of Unknown Molecular Weights Moodle Site and PAIR Site.
University-wide Committee Membership 2012-2013
  1. Faculty Committee on Extended Learning
  2. International Education Council
  3. University Planning and Budget Group
  4. CSU Future Group, event committee member
Systemwide Committee Membership 2012-2013

Course Identification Numbering System (C-ID): FDRG and CORE Discipline Review Group Members and Course Outline of Record Evaluators

Recent Talks

Fulbright Pre-departure Resource Person (6/2008), Fulbright Meeting at CSUN (4/2008), Sacramento State (11/2007), CSUN Colloquium (10/2007), KIST Colloquium (5/2007), CSUN Colloquium (5/2005), Princeton (4/2003), AMS/MAA Joint National Meeting, Baltimore (1/2003), University of California Los Angeles (12/2002), California Science Center - NASA Meeting (6/2002), International Meeting of Random Schrodinger Equations, CIRM, France (5/2002), American Mathematical Society (AMS) Special Session (12/2001), University of California, Irvine (11/2001)