James Lawrence Professor Office: Science & Technology Building I, Room 253 Phone: (703) 993-1466 Fax: (703) 993-1491 E-mail:  lawrence@gmu.edu

Education

• Ph.D., 1975, University of Washington

• B.S., 1972, Oklahoma State University
  

Research

• Convexity and Combinatorics
  

Selected Publications

• Mutation Polynomials and Oriented Matroids; Discrete and Computational Geometry, Vol. 24 (2000), pp. 365-389

• A Simple Proof of Eulers' Relation to Convex Polytopes; Canad. Math. Ball., Vol. 40 (1997), pp. 471-474

• Polytope Volume Computation; Math. of Computation, Vol. 57 (1991), pp. 259-271

• Rational-function-values Valuations on Polyhedra; DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 6 (1991) pp. 199-208

• Finite Unions of Closed Subgroups of the n-dimensional torus group; DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 4 (1991), pp. 433-441

• The Victor Klee Festschrift; Oriented Matroids, with J. Folkman. J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, Vol. 25 (1978), pp.