Homepage for Dr. Steve Chiappari

Dr. Stephen A. Chiappari chairs the Department of Applied Mathematics at Santa Clara University and serves as co-director of CASPIA, the Center for Advanced Study and Practice of Information Assurance.

Research Interests

  • Applications of mathematics to engineering
  • Complex analysis, especially holomorphic functions of several complex variables
  • Grid computing
  • Scalable video coding
  • Information security, especially cryptology
  • Geometric optimization

Teaching

·         Winter 2009

    • Probability and Statistics (Applied Mathematics 108)
    • Mathematics Seminar for Engineering Research (Applied Mathematics 395)
    • Master’s Thesis (Applied Mathematics 397)
    • Advanced Special Topics (Applied Mathematics 399): Design and Analysis of Scientific Experiments

·         Previous quarters

    • Undergraduate courses
      • Probability and Statistics (Applied Mathematics 108)
      • Numerical Methods (Applied Mathematics 118)
    • Graduate courses
      • Master’s Thesis (Applied Mathematics 397)
      • Mathematics Seminar for Engineering Research (Applied Mathematics 395)
      • Partial Differential Equations I and II (Applied Mathematics 374 and 375)
      • Stochastic Processes II (Applied Mathematics 363)
      • Advanced Cryptology and Information Assurance (Applied Mathematics 388 and Computer Engineering 352)
      • Cryptology (Applied Mathematics 385, 386, and 387)
      • Real Analysis I and II (Applied Mathematics 365 and 366)
      • Complex Analysis I and II (Applied Mathematics 235 and 236)
      • Linear Programming I and II (Applied Mathematics 340 and 341)
      • Continuous Probability (Applied Mathematics 211)
      • Introduction to Probability I (Applied Mathematics 210)
      • Special Problems (Applied Mathematics 299)
        • Functional Analysis and Probability
        • Group Theory
        • Galois Theory
        • Advanced Cryptology
        • Advanced Complex Analysis
        • Abstract Algebra
        • Number Theory and Cryptology
        • Random Variables and Processes
        • Algorithm Analysis for Lambda-Grids
        • Evaluation of Techniques for Prediction of Lightpath Resource Utilization
        • Error-Correcting Codes and Applications to Cryptography
        • Analyzing Advantages of Advance Reservation Scheduling
        • Modeling of Shared Bandwidth for Elastic Reservations
      • Advanced Special Topics (Applied Mathematics 399)
        • Cryptographic Network Threat Analysis
        • Topics in Partial Differential Equations
      • Independent Study (Computer Engineering 499)
        • Statistics for Performance Prediction
        • Cryptographic Library Development
        • Cryptographic Applications

Contact Information

Dr. Stephen A. Chiappari, Chair
Department of Applied Mathematics
School of Engineering
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0560

408-554-6866 (my office telephone number)
408-554-4061 (departmental office telephone number)
408-554-5474 (School of Engineering fax machine)

Last updated on January 8, 2009 by schiappari scu edu