General non-sense: Mostly I teach here. I want to encourage beginning students to think for themselves, so I use a lot of hints and comments. More advanced questions I often just answer. Relevant personal history: PhD from Notre Dame in `90. Drifted from representation theory of algebraic groups to applications of algebra into telecommunications, mostly coding theory, and lately mostly teaching at college level. 3 graduate students with awarded PhDs. Technically it`s now 4, but my previous students did most of the work with the latest one, so I should not include him. I have mostly worked at our local University at Turku, Finland. At one point I tried working for Nokia Research Center. It was ok, but an old dog didn`t learn all the tricks, and then they downsized, so I returned to the Uni as a tenured lecturer. ©

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