Professor Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Science & Learning Center 208 562.907.4200, ext. 4459 jlutgen@whittier.edu
B.A., California State University, Sacramento M.S., Ph.D., University of Oregon
Higher-order flatness of differentiable manifolds, scientific computing, graph theory, open source software development
"Higher order flatness of some products and connected sums of smooth manifolds," Second International Conference of Applied Mathematics, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, August 2005
Lutgen, J., "A combinatorial proof of an alternating convolution identity for multichoose numbers," American Mathematical Monthly, 128, no. 2 (2016), 192–196
Sebanc, A., Guimond, A., and Lutgen, J., "Transactional Relationships Between Latinos’ Friendship Quality and Academic Achievement During the Transition to Middle School," Journal of Early Adolescence (2014), doi:10.1177/0272431614556347
Lutgen, J., "Higher order flatness of immersed manifolds,” Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 28, no. 2 (1998), 649-654
Lutgen, J., "Higher order flatness of lens spaces," Houston Journal of Mathematics, 22, no. 3 (1996), 511-532
