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Alan Parry

Faculty Member

Alan Parry

Biography

Alan joined the UVU faculty in 2016 and currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Mathematics.

Alan loves teaching and helping students see the wonder of mathematics around them. His teaching philosophy is centered on three key ideas_ (1) genuine care for his students and a desire for their success, (2) fostering an enjoyable and comfortable classroom atmosphere to engender student investment and engagement in the course, and (3) using several different approaches to course material in order to help students learn their way.

Alan's mathematical research interests are in the field of differential geometry. Specifically, Alan is interested the subfield of mathematical general relativity and its applications to the dark matter problem. Alan is also interested in the problem of classifying solvable Lie algebras.

Alan also has interests in mathematics education research and a budding interest in voting theory.

Academic Positions Held

Chair of the Department of Mathematics - Utah Valley University - 2021 - present

Associate Professor of Mathematics - Utah Valley University - 2021 - present

Associate Chair of the Department or Mathematics - Utah Valley University - 2018 - 2021

Assistant Professor of Mathematics - Utah Valley University - 2016 - 2021

Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics - University of Connecticut - 2013 - 2016

Education

Ph D, Duke University, 2013

Major: Mathematics

MA, Duke University, 2008

Major: Mathematics

MS, Utah State University, 2007

Major: Mathematics

BS, Utah State University, 2006

Major: Mathematics

Teaching

MATH 4330

Theory of Linear Algebra, Spring 2024

Presentations

Parry, Alan , MAA Intermountain Section Meeting, "Analysis is Wrong!", MAA, Utah Tech University. (March 25, 2023)
Parry, Alan , Universal, "The Mathematics of Ranked Choice Voting", UVU Mathematics Department, Utah Valley University. (November 2, 2022)
Parry, Alan , Mathematics Colloquium, "A Pictorial Introduction to General Relativity", UVU Mathematics Department, Utah Valley University. (March 18, 2022)
Parry, Alan , t^3: tea time talks, "What is Ranked Choice Voting?", UVU Mathematics Department, Utah Valley University. (September 15, 2021)
Parry, Alan , MAA Intermountain Section Meeting, "Given Any Two Statements, One of Them Implies the Other", MAA, Brigham Young University - Idaho (Virtual Conference). (March 26, 2021)
Parry, Alan , Roots of Knowledge Lecture Series, "The Day Gravity and Curvature Met", UVU Fulton Library, Utah Valley University. (November 14, 2019)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Parry, Alan R, (2022) "Parametrizations of the Poisson-Schrodinger Equations" (Issue: 1, vol. 100). Canadian Journal of Physics. https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjp-2020-0213
Parry, Alan R, (2018) "A Useful Observation about the Unit Circle" (Issue: Fall/Winter 2018-2019, vol. 11). Utah Mathematics Teacher.
Parry, Alan R, (2018) "Graph Transformations by Variable Replacement" (Issue: Fall/Winter 2018-2019, vol. 11). Utah Mathematics Teacher.
Bray, Hubert L, Parry, Alan R, (2015) "Modeling Wave Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies" (Issue: 1, vol. 615). Journal of Physics_ Conference Series. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/615/1/012001
Parry, Alan R, (2014) "A Survey of Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes" (Issue: 4, vol. 4). Analysis and Mathematical Physics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13324-014-0085-x
Parry, Alan R, (2007) "A Classification of Real Indecomposable Solvable Lie Algebras of Small Dimension with Codimension One Nilradicals" . Utah State University. http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6069

Awards

Board of Trustees Award of Excellence

Utah Valley University - February, 2022

Faculty Excellence Award

Utah Valley University Faculty Senate - April, 2019

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Advance HE - June, 2018

L.P. and Barbara Smith Award for Teaching Excellence

Duke University Mathematics Department - September, 2010