Douglas Troeger

Professor

Main Affiliation

Computer Science

Additional Departments/Affiliated Programs

Computer Engineering

Building

North Academic Center

Office

7/116

Phone

212-650-6167

Fax

212-650-6248

Email

dtroeger@ccny.cuny.edu

Douglas Troeger

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Education

  • A.B. (Philosophy) Brown University
  • Sc.B. (Chemistry) Brown University
  • M.S. (Mathematics) Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D. (Mathematics) Stevens Institute of Technology

Courses Taught

  • CSc 33500 : Programming Language Paradigms

Research Interests

Computational Group Theory and Symbolic Computation, Functional Programming, Semantics of Programming Languages.

Publications

  • Challenge Response Password Security Using Combinatorial Group Theory, to appear in Groups, Complexity and Cryptology (with G. Baumslag, Y. Bryukhov, and B. Fine).
  • Virtual Properties of Cyclically Pinched One-Relator Groups, International Journal of Algebra and Computation, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp 213 - 227, 2009 (with G. Baumslag, B. Fine and C. F. Miller).
  • Virtually Free-by-Cyclic One-Relator Groups I., Aspects of Infinite Groups, Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, Volume 1, World Scientific, B. Fine, G. Rosenberger and D. Spellman, eds., pp.9-25, 2008 (with G. Baumslag).
  • Reflections on the Residual Finiteness of One-Relator Groups, Groups, Geometry and Dynamics, Vol.1 No. 3, pp. 209-219, 2007 (with G. Baumslag and C. F. Miller)

 

Additional Information

Professional Experience

Prior to joining City College, I had faculty appointments at Stevens Institute of Technology and Syracuse University. Prior to that I worked in industry, as a chemist in the Chemical Physics Division of Allied Chemical Corporation.

Current Professional Affiliations

Association for Computing Machinery, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science