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Dr. Rick Adkins

Mathematics Department

208 Stright Hall

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Indiana, PA 15705

e-mail : fadkins@iup.edu


Teaching and Course Information


MATH 115 Applied Mathematics for Business students: please use Interactive Course Web Tools -- MyMathLab to access the course website. For information on class adminstration, including the syllabus, click here.


For students interested in learning how to use their TI-calculators: Dr. Gary Stoudt's Calculator Resources Page

For students interested in graduate study try the following link: Graduate Student Resources Page

For students interested in using Mathematica over the Web try the following link(this does not currently work--Y2K problem): Mathematica

For students interested in using MATLAB over the Web try the following link: MiniMAT
  • The above link is thanks to Joel Robbin of Univ. of Wisconsin- Madison.


    Research Information and Reports

    Check out my Ph.D. thesis:

    Via UMI Abstracts: Numerical Continuation and Bifurcation Methods for Mechanism Workspace and Controllability Analysis. try this link and search author Adkins, Frederick.

    OR Get a postscript copy of the entire document:
    Numerical Continuation and Bifurcation Methods for Mechanism Workspace and Controllability Analysis. (compressed) or gzipped

    My Areas of Interest:

    If you have grants or contract work for me {:-) My Curriculum Vitae(html web format) ; postscript format

    Some Online Research Papers:

  • Domains of Interference Between Working Bodies in Mechanisms and Manipulators Advances in Design Automation ASME DE-82:1:651-658, 1995. (postscript version).
  • Analysis of Barriers to Control of Manipulators, Advances in Design Automation ASME DE-82:1:697-704, 1995. (postscript version).

  • French Computational Kinematics Workshop, Sept. 1995:

  • Some work in Numerical Mapping of Manipulator Workspaces
  • Select here for a complete list of my publications, however it is in postscript format

    Personal Information

  • My favorite quote from while a graduate student at University of Iowa:

    "No one should ever wear out an ice scraper in their lifetime!"

    Some interesting links

  • The Center for Computer Aided Design (CCAD)(My former employer)
  • The Weather UIUC Weather Machine
  • Patent Search Site Try this
  • Information on Mosaic
  • Sports Information

    Some Graphical Research Results

    Maintained by F. Adkins <fadkins@iup.edu>

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