Welcome to the Home Page of Professor Gareth E. Roberts

  • Email: groberts AT holycross DOT edu
  • Office Phone: 508-793-2350
  • Office: Haberlin 305
  • Office Hours: Mon., Wed. 3 - 4, Tue. 10 - 11 (Math 374 only), 2 - 3 (Math 199 only), Fri. 9 - 10, or by appointment.
  • Address:
    Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
    PO Box 48A
    College of the Holy Cross
    1 College Street
    Worcester, MA 01610

  • Current Position: Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.
  • Research: Dynamical Systems, Celestial Mechanics, N-Vortex Problem, Hamiltonian Systems, Conceptual Climate Modeling, Newton's Method, Complex Dynamics. I am currently conducting research on central configurations and relative equilibria in the n-body and n-vortex problems. I am also interested in low-dimensional climate and carbon models, and sustainability issues. This semester I have a thesis student (Kate Wolters) working on climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
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Courses for Fall 2025

MATH 199-01, 199-02 Calculus 1 with Modeling
MATH 374 Dynamical Systems

Course information posted in Canvas


From Music to Mathematics:
Exploring the Connections
(Johns Hopkins University Press)

Book Website

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Haydn's "Minuet in Reverse" from his Piano Sonata in A major (Hob. XVI/26 or Landon 41)


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