Hello!  I am now Professor Emeritus of Mathematics.  I've been here at Stockton since 1974, completed my 32nd (and last!) year of teaching at Stockton in May 2006, and have been officially retired for 3 1/2 years..  My c.v. is attached.  My spouse, Roz Herlands (RHerlands@stockton.edu), has also been a faculty member here since 1974, in Biology, and retired in June 2007.   (We now share a desk and a computer in the Emeritus faculty office, E-295, and still have our campus phones, e-mail accounts, and mailboxes in the NAMS office, B-108.  My e-mail address is C.Herlands@stockton.edu)  We came here together after graduating from Stanford and completing our Ph.Ds at the Univ of Calif at Irvine.

                   May 2000

During Summer 2008 she and other researchers at the Wetlands Institute incubated over 600 diamondback terrapin eggs (from road-killed female terrapins) -- Contact her at RHerlands@stockton.edu if you'd like more information about the terrapin conservation project, now in its 17th year (or just click here if all you're interested in are pretty terrapin pictures).   The Summer 2008 hatchlings were "head-started" over the winter in the "terrapin farm" at Stockton and were gradually released back into the salt marsh in Spring and Summer 2009, more eggs from this summer's road-killed females were incubated, and the 2009 hatchlings are now being head-started. Roz has published some of her terrapin research and data, presented papers at turtle conferences in 1999, 2000,  2003 (in Senegal!), and 2004, and is still working with students on the terrapin project -- If you're a turtle person, then she's the one you want to talk to.

Roz also completed a 20-week Master Gardener course and has put in all of her 85 hours of community service to complete her MG certification requirements.

Ryan (32) graduated in 1999 from Stanford with a B.S. from the Biosphere Track of the Earth Systems Department and three summers in the Colorado Rockies doing butterfly research (plant-insect interactions) on a professor's grant.  You can reach him at herlands@gmail.com. Jason (35) graduated from Middlebury in 1996 (cum laude, highest honors in Japanese, minor in physics) and taught English in Japan for 3 years (he also spent his junior year in Kyoto).  His e-mail address is jasonherlands@gmail.com.  Ryan finished two years of grad school at Vanderbilt Univ. on a University Fellowship (evolutionary biology/ecology) and a second summer doing field and lab research at the Huyck Preserve near Albany NY, discontinued his graduate studies and remained in Rensselaerville to do research at Huyck and be an assistant chef at the Palmer House restaurant for 16 months, and moved to Palo Alto, Calif, in January 2004 to live with his grandparents, tutor math and biology 25-30 hours a week, do volunteer work with an environmental group, look for a real job, and be near his girlfriend Nancy.  He worked for Cal-PIRG in SF for 10 months and has been living for the past 5 years in Eugene, Oregon with Nancy and tutoring high school and college biology, geology, and math.  He has just begun a Master's degree program in education, pursuing middle- and secondary-school certification in both mathematics and science.  Jason finished his fourth year of grad school in 2004, at the Univ. of Michigan, on a Fellowship (modern Japanese literature), was advanced to candidacy and had his doctoral dissertation proposal approved, continued his doctoral research in Kyoto from October 2004 till mid-June 2006, and  returned to the states in June 2006 to teach a summer school course at Michigan and continue writing his dissertation.  Both boys and Nancy made it to North Carolina in June for my mom's 85th birthday party/family reunion.  Jason defended his dissertation in May 2009 and is now "Dr. J", although he says that he doesn't get paid as much as Julius Erving.  He taught Japanese language and literature at Oberlin College in Fall 2009, is teaching at Macalaster College (St. Paul, MN) in Winter/Spring 2010, and is currently applying and interviewing for faculty positions for Fall 2010.

We took a 12-day trip to Senegal in June 2003, a two-week trip to Alaska in June 2005,  a 17-day trip to South Africa in December 2006 and January 2007, a 3-week trip to New Zealand in November 2007, a trip to Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus in June 2008, a birding trip to Trinidad & Tobago in January/February 2009, and a Galapagos Islands expedition in November 2009.  I'll add  photos to this page sometime... .  Roz visited her parents in Calif last February; I visited my mom in North Carolina in April; our annual Memorial Day weekend camping trip with present and former Stockton friends was in Connecticut last year; and we were in North Carolina in June for my mom's party.  We traveled to Ann Arbor in August (to help Jason move to Ohio) and to California (to see Roz's family) and Eugene OR (to see Ryan and Nancy) in September. Roz flew out to Calif again in October to attend her 40th college reunion, and I visited my mom in NC again after we returned from the Galapagos Islands and before Jason and Ryan arrived home for the December holidays. Roz visits her parents in Calif again next month, and her sister Bev will be here in April before we go to Southern Arizona for a birding trip.

I have been back on the tennis courts after extensive shoulder surgery in August 2006.   I am far from the shape I was in 10 years ago, when I reached the finals of the open doubles at the South Jersey Open tournament (with a terrific partner, Paul Tendler), but I did win the 50-and-over doubles (with another terrific partner, Laird Warner) at the Cape May tournament in July 2005, and Laird and I competed in Fall 2005 in the USTA 50-and-over National Grass Court tournament and lost a tough match to the 4th-seeded team in the round of 16.  Laird and I were ranked 38th (tie) nationally, and I was ranked 75th individually, by the USTA for 2005 in 50-and-over doubles.  Laird and I lost in the finals of the Cape May tournament in Summer 2008; Paul and I won a local club tournament in June 2009. I also played on a USTA "super-senior" team last summer in Pennsylvania.  I  played 4-6 times a week during the Summer and Fall and have been playing 3-4 times a week indoors during the Winter.

In Spring 2001, I chaired the search committee for a new Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and I also served on the Faculty Assembly ad hoc Committee on Graduation (= the successor to the now defunct joint student-faculty task force on graduation) and the College-wide Graduation Committee for 5 years until my retirement.

In Fall 1999, I taught MATH 3323, Linear Algebra,  using Anton, Elementary Linear Algebra, 7th edition, and two sections of MATH 2215, Calculus I, using Larson/Hostetler/Edwards, 6th edition.

In Spring 2000, I taught MATH 1100, Precalculus, using Swokowski & Cole, 8th edition, and my favorite General Studies seminar, GIS 4615, Science in Western Civilization.

I taught MATH4441, Algebraic Structures (MWF 12:45), and a section of MATH1100, Precalculus (MWF 11:20), in Fall 2000, and two sections of MATH 2215, Calculus I, and the GIS 4615 course (Science in Western Civilization) again, in Spring 2001.

I taught two sections of  MATH 2215, Calculus I in Fall 2001.  In Spring 2002, I taught GIS 4615, Science in Western Civilization, again, plus MATH 3325, Foundations of Mathematics.  I also served once again as Math Program Coordinator for 2002-03 but was succeeded by Renga Iyer in 2003-04; Renga is now in his 7th year as coordinator.

In Fall 2002, I taught two sections of MATH 2215, Calculus I in Fall 2002, with Larson/Hostetler/Edwards, 7th edition, as the text.  In Spring 2003, I taught MATH 3323, Linear Algebra (text: Anton, Elementary Linear Algebra, 8th edition, Wiley, 2000) and MATH 2225, Discrete Math (text: Rosen, Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill, 1999).

I taught MATH 2217, Calculus III, and two sections of MATH 1100, Precalculus, in Fall 2003.  And in Spring 2004 I taught MATH2215, Calculus I, (text: Larson/Hostetler/Edwards, 7th edition) and MATH 4472, Theory of Computation. (Text: Lewis & Papadimitriou, Elements of the Theory of Computation, 2nd edition (Prentice-Hall, 1998.)

I taught two sections of MATH1100, Precalculus, and a section of MATH2216, Calculus II, in Fall 2004.  In Spring 2005, I taught MATH2217, Calculus III, and MATH3323, Linear Algebra.

I taught Calculus I in Fall 2005 and Calculus III in Spring 2006 -- my last course at Stockton!

I attended a great category theory conference in September '02 at the Fields Institute in Toronto, as you can see from the attached photo.  (I'm in the back row, behind the right shoulder of the 6'5" guy [Myles Tierney] with the white hair and sunglasses.)

I was the Treasurer (and, since Hal Taylor's untimely death in December 2001, the acting Group Leader) for a local Amnesty International group, #379, which I helped to found 21 years ago. I attended AIUSA's Annual General Meeting in Nashville in April 2001 and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Philadelphia in October 2005.  In summer 2001, I received an unexpected visit from our group's very first Prisoner of Conscience, Lars Nordmann, who was released from an East German prison in 1989 and is now living in New Jersey!  Our Burmese prisoner, student leader Paw U Tun, was released in November 2004 but has recently been rearrested and is being held incommunicado without charge; we had been writing letters and working on his behalf for over 9 years.   We closed down Group #379 in Spring, 2007, and I now work with Group #543, which meets monthly in Ocean City.  The next meeting is Monday, March 1, at 7:00 pm, at Positively 4th Street in Ocean City (4th St and Atlantic Avenue).  A great deal of information about human rights, including the texts of many important human rights documents, is available from the Web page that Dr. Diane Falk has set up for her course, GSS 3234, Human Rights in Global Perspective.

Roz and I also do a fair amount of birding these days, including helping with the weekly waterfowl surveys at the Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.

For information about the Mathematics Program at Stockton, visit the Math Program Page in the Stockton Web site.

The Math Seminar is open to everyone interested in Mathematics -- Come and join us on Monday afternoons in room C-001 at 3:35 pm  for coffee, donuts, and mathematics!  The seminar meets in B-126 this semester.

The Stockton Math Club still exists.  If you like mathematics and are interested in participating in the Math Club, please contact  Dr.Chia-Lin Wu (wuc@stockton.edu), or visit the club's Web site (http://www.stocktonmath.org).

For information about jobs and internships, developments in mathematics, graduate schools, etc., click here.

I have moved to a new office (E-295, accessible from the E-wing gallery) but still have my old phone number (652-4674).  I am seldom there, however.  The best way to reach me is to call me at home or send me e-mail

The Math Lab (J-107/108) offers free tutoring MTWR 9-6 and F 9-3 during the regular academic year (Sept - May). For a listing of specific Math Lab tutors and their specialties and schedules, visit the Math Lab page.

Last updated 2/1/2010.
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                                                                         Maui, August 1999
                                                               Jason, Ma, Charlie, Roz, Ryan