Willenbring attended North Dakota State University during his undergraduate years and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1995.[3] After graduating, he went on to pursue a PhD degree in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. He worked with his doctoral advisor, Nolan Russell Wallach, to produce his thesis Stability Properties for q-Mulitplicities and Branching Formulas for Representations of the Classical Groups.[4]
After receiving his PhD in mathematics in 2000, he accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2003. He was promoted to an Associate Professor position in 2008 and to a Full Professor position in 2013. During his time at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Willenbring has taught numerous classes including Advanced Calculus, Number Theory, and Graduate Algebra and supervised 9 Graduate Student theses to the point of completion.[5] As a legally blind professor, he is a particularly zealous advocate for students with disabilities.[6] As a member of his university's ADA advisory committee, Willenbring successfully advocated to bring an app for visually impaired student to campus,[7] making UWM the first university in its state to offer a free app for the blind and visually impaired.[8][9][10]
Publications
Notable publications by Jeb Willenbring include[11]:
Heaton, Alexander; Sriwongsa, Songpon; Willenbring, Jeb (2021), "Branching from the General Linear Group to the Symmetric Group and the Principal Embedding", Algebraic Combinatorics, 4 (2): 189–200, arXiv:1812.06211, doi:10.5802/alco.138, S2CID119309353
Lhou, Hassan; Willenbring, Jeb (2017), Chmutov (ed.), "Lowest 𝔰𝔩(2)-types in 𝔰𝔩(n)-representations", Representation Theory, 21: 20–34, doi:10.1090/ert/492
Harris, Pamela; Willenbring, Jeb; Howe, Roger; Hunziker, Markus (2014), "Sums of squares of Littlewood–Richardson coefficients and GL n -harmonic polynomials", Symmetry: Representation Theory and Its Applications, Progress in Mathematics, vol. 257, pp. 305–326, arXiv:1206.0404, doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1590-3_11, ISBN978-1-4939-1589-7, S2CID118023893
van Groningen, Anthony; Willenbring, Jeb (2014), "The Cubic, the Quartic, and the Exceptional Group G2", Developments and Retrospectives in Lie Theory, Developments in Mathematics, vol. 38, pp. 385–397, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09804-3_17, ISBN978-3-319-09803-6
Hero, Michael; Willenbring, Jeb; Williams, Lauren; Adams, Jeffery; Lian, Bong; Siddhartha, Sahi (2011), "The measurement of quantum entanglement and enumeration of graph coverings", Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics, Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 557, pp. 169–181, arXiv:0911.0222, doi:10.1090/conm/557/11031, ISBN9780821852460, S2CID115173100
Willenbring has received numerous awards and grants. After graduating from his PhD Program, he taught at Yale University from 2000–2003 and was granted NSF VIGRE funding.[12] In 2013, Willenbring was named as a fellow of the American Mathematics Society as part of its inaugural class of fellows.[13] Recognizing his work towards increasing campus accessibility, Willenbring also received a UWM Accessibility Resource Center Excellence Award in 2016.[14]
