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Matt Ondrus
Professor of Mathematics
Weber State University

WSU Mathematics Department
1415 Edvalson St., Dept. 2517
Ogden, UT 84408-2517
email: mattondrus at weber dot edu

Current Classes:

See Canvas for information about current courses.

A bit about me

Before coming to Weber State, I was a "teaching postdoc" at the University of Arizona. Prior to that, I was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Research/Publications

"Modules induced from large subalgebras of the Lie algebra of differential operators of degree at most one," J. Algebra, 668 (2025), 533-571.

"The restriction of polynomial modules for the Virasoro algebra to sl_2(C)," with E. Wiesner, Algebra Colloquium, 29: 3 (2022), 491-508.

"Modules induced from polynomial subalgebras of the Virasoso algebra," with E. Wiesner, J. Algebra, 504 (2018), 54-84.

"Whittaker modules for the insertion-elimination Lie algebra," with E. Wiesner, E. Algebr Represent Theor, 20(4) (2017), 843-856.

"Automorphisms and derivations of the insertion-elimination Lie algebra and related graded Lie algebras," with E. Wiesner, Lett. Math. Phys., 106 (2016), no. 07, 925-949.

"Derivations of a parametric family of subalgebras of the Weyl algebra," with G. Benkart and S. Lopes, J. Algebra, 424 (2015), 46-97.

A parametric family of subalgebras of the Weyl algebra II. Irreducible modules, with G. Benkart and S. Lopes, Algebraic and Combinatorial Approaches to Representation Theory, V. Chari, J. Greenstein, K.C. Misra, K.N. Raghavan, S. Viswanath (Eds.), in: Contemp. Math., vol. 602, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2013, pp. 73-98, arXiv:1212.1404.

"A Parametric Family of Subalgebras of the Weyl Algebra I. Structure and Automorphisms," with G. Benkart and S. Lopes, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 367 (2015), no. 3, 1993-2021.

"Whittaker categories for the Virasoro algebra," with E. Wiesner, Comm. Algebra, 41 (2013), no. 10, 3910-3930.

"A generalization of even and odd functions," with M. Balaich, Involve 4-1 (2011), 91-102.

"Whittaker modules for the Virasoro algebra," with E. Wiesner, J. Algebra Appl., 8 (2009), no. 3, 363 - 377.
Electronic version of an article published as [Journal of Algebra and its Applications, Volume 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363-377] [10.1142/S0219498809003370] © [copyright World Scientific Publishing Company] [http://www.worldscinet.com/jaa/]

"Algebraic and Geometric Representations of Perimeter with Algebra Blocks: Professional Development for Teachers of English Language Learners," with C. Anhalt, chapter in Latinos and Mathematics Education: Research on Learning and Teaching in Classrooms and Communities - Téllez, Moschkovich & Civil (Eds.).

"Whittaker modules for generalized Weyl algebras," with G. Benkart, Represent. Theory, 13 (2009), 141-164.

"Issues of language: Insights from middle school teachers' participation in a mathematics lesson in Chinese," with C. Anhalt and V. Horak, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 13 (2007), 18-23.

"Tensor products and Whittaker vectors for quantum groups," Comm. Algebra, 35 (2007), no. 8, 2506-2523.

"Whittaker modules for $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$," J. Algebra, 289 (2005), no. 1, 192-213.

"Constructing all irreducible Specht modules in a block of the symmetric group," (with J. Cossey and C. R. Vinroot), unpublished lecture notes.

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