Math & Actuarial Science

Matthew A. Pons

Professor of Mathematics; Chairperson Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science; Marie & Bernice Gantzert Professor in the Liberal Arts & Sciences

Contact

+1 630 637 5231
mapons@noctrl.edu

Office Location

WSC

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Matthew A. Pons teaches a variety of courses in the Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science and serves as the department chair. Matthew was a Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) Fellow in 2008-2009.  In 2011 he received the Clarence F. Dissinger award for outstanding teaching and leadership by a junior faculty member and in 2015 he received the Clarence F. Dissinger award for faculty scholarship.  He authored the text Real Analysis for the Undergraduate with Springer Science + Business Media in 2014. More recently, he coedited the collection Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey, with Allison K. Henrich, Emille D. Lawrence, and David G. Taylor, which was awarded the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America in 2022. In 2022, Matthew was named the Marie and Bernice Gantzert Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences at North Central. Matthew currently serves as the deputy editor for MAA FOCUS, the news magazine of the Mathematical Association of America.

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Selected Scholarship

Spectra of composition operators on the Dirichlet space induced by full-maps of the disk, submitted.

Composition-differentiation operators on the Dirichlet space, with Robert F. Allen and Katherine C. Heller, J. Math. Anal. Appl., to appear.

Spectra of composition operators on weighted Bergman spaces, Acta. Sci. Math. (Szeged), 85 (2019), 539-560.

Isometric composition operators on the analytic Besov space, with Robert F. Allen and Katherine C. Heller, J. Math. Annal. Appl., 414 (2014), 414-423

The spectrum of a composition operator and Calderon's complex interpolation, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, 202 (2010), 451-467.

Courses Taught

FYE 100: First Year Experience

HON 200: What is Truth

MATH 120: Mathematics for the Liberal Arts

MATH 151, 152, 253: Calculus I, II, and III

MATH 300: Linear Algebra

MATH 315: Differential Equations

MATH 320: Complex Variables

MATH 390: Research Methods in Mathematics

MATH 461, 462: Real Analysis I and II

MATH 490: Seminar in Advanced Mathematics

Additional Credentials

Cardinal SafeZone Ally

Areas of Interest

Complex function theory

Functional analysis and operator theory

Composition operators on spaces of analytic functions

Degrees

B.A., University of North Carolina, 2002; M.S., 2005, Ph.D., 2007, University of Virginia