Me

John Pike

Office: DMF 435
Email: john DOT pike AT bridgew DOT edu
Mailing Address:
Mathematics Department
Dana Mohler-Faria Science & Mathematics Center, Room 431
24 Park Avenue
Bridgewater, MA 02325


General

I am currently an associate professor at Bridgewater State University. Before coming to BSU, I was a postdoc at Cornell University, and before that I was at the University of Southern California where I received my PhD under the direction of Jason Fulman.

Additional information can be found in my CV.


Teaching

For the Fall 2024 semester, I am teaching Math 180 (Transition to Advanced Math), Math 202 (Linear Algebra), Math 401 (Real Analysis), and Math 403 (Probability).


Research

My research is primarily concerned with probability theory and its applications. I am particularly interested in Markov chains defined on algebraic and combinatorial structures and in distributional approximation using Stein's method techniques.

Feel free to check out these papers for further details:


Probability Notes

You are also welcome to look at my old notes for Basic Probability, Probability Theory I, Probability Theory II, and Random Walks & Representations.

Algebraic aspects of the latter are developed more fully in these notes on Representations of Finite Groups.