The Los Alamos National Laboratory Archive  


Most of my papers are archived by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and are publicly available. In my opinion the easiest way to access this archive is to use the website at U.C.Davis. To find my papers just search for "sormani". You may then choose to download a ps, pdf, dvi or tex (src) version of the paper.

In fact, you can run searches for a word and if that word appears in an abstract for a paper, then that paper will appear. The archive is updated daily and many people are posting their old papers to make the archive more complete.

If you wish to post your own papers you can use the same website. Be careful to check the paper first since it cannot be withdrawn. Corrections may be added later but the dated original will always be on record. Also note that it is the tex file which is stored, so you may wish to remove extraneous comments before posting.

Many people are posting their papers as soon as they are completed and before they are refereed by a journal. The advantage is that the papers are very up to date, not three years old like papers available in journals and reviewed by the A.M.S.. The disadvantage is that the papers may have errors.

Most of my papers have yet to be reviewed by the AMS . Nevertheless, any paper that has already appeared in print is listed on the AMS's mathscinet .

Unlike the L.A.N.L. archive, mathscinet is not free, but everyone at CUNY can access it. It is an excellent way to search for papers by searching "anywhere" for a particular word. If that word appears in a title or a review of a paper then that paper will appear. The reviews often explain the importance of an article and many provide links to reviews of related articles.

You can also search mathscinet "anywhere" for "CUNY7" and find papers by professors at Lehman College dating as far back as 1984. The reviews predate 1984, but in earlier reviews the affiliations of the professors weren't recorded. Keep in mind also, that only papers submitted by the professor during his or her tenure at Lehman College will appear.

Other websites with articles are: