Sergio R. López-Permouth did his undergraduate work at
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. His graduate work was,
respectively, at Ohio University for the M.Sc. degree and at North
Carolina State University for the Ph.D. He has been in the
faculty of the department of Mathematics at Ohio University since 1986
where he is currently a Full Professor of Mathematics. Dr.
López-Permouth was department chair during 1996-1999. His
research focuses in Ring and Module Theory as well as on Coding and
Information Theory. He is a member of the American Mathematical
Society (AMS.)
He has authored and co-authored more than 45 papers in these areas and
has co-edited three research volumes containing the proceedings of
three of the approximately one dozen conferences and special session
that he has organized. His research papers have appeared in venues such
as the the Proceedings of the AMS, the Journal of Algebra, Applicable
Algebra in Engineering Communication and Computing, Finite Fields and
their Applications, and the IEEE Transactions in Information Science.
The books he has edited have been published by Springer-Verlag and by
the Contemporary Mathematics Series of the AMS.
Dr. López-Permouth has been active as an organizer of special
sessions in Ring Theory for joint meetings of AMS and the Sociedad
Matemática Mexicana. He has organized one of these
sessions in every one of the six joint meetings between these two
professional societies. Likewise, he co-organized a session on ring
theory at the first joint meeting of AMS and the Real Sociedad
Matemática Espanola and another such session at the first joint
meeting between AMS and the mathematical societies of Germany and
Austria.
Dr. López-Permouth has traveled extensively through the United
States and all over the world as an invited speaker to present his
research. He has lectured at conferences and seminars in Brazil, Costa
Rica, France, Germany, Guatemala, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia,
Spain, Thailand, Uruguay and Vietnam.
He is a founding executive editor for the Journal of Algebra and its
Applications, a founding editor for the Journal Advances in the
Mathematics of Communication, and a member of the editorial board of
both Revista de Matemáticas and of the East-West Journal of
Mathematics.
His collaboration with members of the School of Electrical Engineering
of the Russ College of Engineering at Ohio University, supported by
grants from the United States Air Force, has yielded several
publications and one US patent (Apparatus and Method of CTCM encoding
and decoding for a digital communication system). The coding
system that Dr. López-Permouth co-invented with his
collaborators from EECS is currently being used by the United States
Air Force through a contract with Rockwell Collins.
Dr. López-Permouth’s contributions to the curriculum include the
creation of four doctoral level courses on Coding and Information
theory (Math 620, 621, 622 and 623) as well as an introductory
Algebraic Coding Theory course for senior undergraduates and Master’s
level graduate students (Math 4/512.)
Dr. López-Permouth has advised seven Ph.D. students in Ring
Theory and Coding Theory.