Fred Butler's Homepage

Me with the Beatles, circa 1964.

Department of Mathematics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6395

Email:  fbutler@math.upenn.edu
Office Phone:  (215) 898-8175
Office:  David Rittenhouse Lab 3E2

Teaching
Fall 2004:  I will be an assistant professor at West Virgnia University, working there in the mathematics department and the Institute for Mathematics Learning.

Fall 2003 - Spring 2004:  This year I will be participating in the NSF funded Access Science program.

Links to past courses can be found here.

Here you can find my teaching statement.

Research
I am currently working on my thesis in combinatorics (specifically rook theory) under Jim Haglund; to read some papers about rook theory, see Jim's web page.

Click for a preprint of Rook Theory and Cycle Counting Permutation Statistics, accepted for publication to Advances in Applied Mathematics.

Here you can find my research statement.

Click to read A Formal Analysis of Some Properties of Kerberos 5 Using MSR, written jointly with Aaron Jaggard, Iliano Cervesato, and Andre Scedrov, and published in the proceedings of CSFW 15.

Here are slides from a talk I gave at McDaniel College to undergraduate students.