SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY AND PUBLICATIONS

 

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

 

JULY 1, 2004 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2005

 

I. Publications, Performances, Exhibits

II. Papers and Presentations

III. Editorships, Offices, and Consultancies

IV. External Grants Received

 

I.         Publications, Performances, Exhibits

 

MATHEMATICS

 

 

Allen, Edward E.

 

“Descent Monomials, P-Partitions and Dense Garsia-Haiman Modules” Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, 20 (2004): 173-193.

 

(with Fetrow, J., John, D. and Thomas, S.) “Heuristics for Dependency Conjectures in Proteomic Signaling Pathways” Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Association for Computing Machinery Southeast Conference, (2005): 75-79.

 

 

Berenhaut, Kenneth S.

 

“Review of Advanced Calculus with Applications in Statistics by André I Khuri.” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99, No. 467, 903--904.

 

(with Goedhart, E. G.) “Explicit Bounds for Second-Order Difference Equations.” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Volume 305, Issue 1, 1 May 2005, 1--10.

 

(with Bandyopadhyay, D.) “Monotone Convex Sequences and Cholesky Decomposition of Symmetric Toeplitz Matrices.” Linear Algebra and its Applications, Published online at Science Direct 17 March 2005.

 

(with Morton, D. C.) “Second Order Bounds for Linear Recurrences with Negative Coefficients.” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Published online at Science Direct, 26 April 2005.

 

(with Fletcher, P. T.) “On Inverses of Triangular Matrices with Monotone Entries.” In press, Volume 6, Issue 2, Journal of Inequalities in Pure and Applied Mathematics. To appear in June 2005

 

Mallakin A., Mezey, P. G., Zimpel, Z., Berenhaut, K. S., Greenberg, B. M., and  Dixon, D. G., Use of Molecular Shape Similarity to Model the Photoinduced Toxicity of Anthracene and Oxygenated Anthracenes, QSAR & Combinatorial Science, Published online at Wiley InterScience, 1 Jun 2005.

 

Carmichael, Richard D.

 

(with  Pilipovic, S.) “Analytic Functions and Boundary Values.” Nonlinear Algebraic Analysis and Applications: Proceedings of the International Conference on Generalized Functions (ICGF 2000). Editors: A. Delcroix et al. Cambridge: Cambridge Scientific Publishers Ltd. 2004: 33 – 40.

 

 

Howard, Frederic T.

 

“The Fibonacci Association.” Math Horizons, February 2005, page 31.

 

 

Norris, James L.

 

(with Ghosh, S. K.) Bayesian Capture-recapture Analysis and Model Selection Allowing for Heterogeneity and Behavioral Effects. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, (2005): Volume 10, Number 1, pgs 35-49.

Plemmons, Robert J.

 

(with Prasad, S., Torgersen, T., Pauca, P. and van der Gracht, J.) “High-Resolution Imaging Using Integrated Optical Systems.” invited paper for the International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology. Vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 67-75, August 2004.

 

(with Catral, M., Han, Lixing, Neumann, Michael) “On Reduced Rank Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Symmetric Matrices.” Linear Algebra and Applications, Vol. 393, pp. 107-126, December 2004.

 

(with Horvath,  Michael, Leonhardt, Emily, Pauca, Paul, Prasad, Sudhakar , Robinson, Stephen, Setty,  Harsha, Torgersen, Todd, van der Gracht, Joseph, Dowski, Edward, Narayanswamy, Ramkumar and Silveira, Paulo E. X.) “Computational Imaging Systems for Iris Recognition.” Proc. SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, Vol. 5559, pp. 346-357, August 2004.

 

(with Pauca, P., Giffin, M. and Hamada, K.) “Unmixing Spectral Data using Independent Component Analysis and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization.” Proc. AMOS Technical Conference, Maui, HI, September 2004, on CD.

 

(with Prasad, S., Pauca, V.P., Torgersen, T.C. and van der Gracht, J.)
“Pupil-phase Optimization for Extended-Focus, Aberration-Corrected Imaging Systems.” Proc. SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, Vol. 5559, pp. 335-345, August 2004.

 

(with Piper, J., Pauca, P. and Giffin, M.) “Object Characterization from Spectral Data using Independent Component Analysis and Information Theory.” Proc. AMOS Technical Conference, Maui, HI, September 2004, on CD.

 

(with Chu, M.) “Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Applications.” invited paper for the Bulletin of the International Linear Algebra Society, to be published, May 2005.

 

 

Raynor, Sarah G.

 

(with Colliander, J., Sulem, C., and Wright, D. ) “Ground State Mass Concentration in the L2-critical Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation below H1” Math. Res. Lett., Vol.12, Issue 3, pp. 357-375, May 2005.

 

Robinson, Stephen B.

 

(with Horvath,  Michael, Leonhardt, Emily, Pauca, Paul, Prasad, Sudhakar , Plemmons, Robert, Setty,  Harsha, Torgersen, Todd, van der Gracht, Joseph, Dowski, Edward, Narayanswamy, Ramkumar and Silveira, Paulo E. X.) “Computational Imaging Systems for Iris Recognition.” Proc. SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, Vol. 5559, pp. 346-357, August 2004.

 

Warrington, Gregory S.

 

(with Loehr, N. and Wilf, H.) “The Combinatorics of a Three-line Circulant Determinant.”

Israel Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 143 (2004), 141-156.

 

“Juggling Probabilities.” American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 112 (2005), no. 2, 105-118.

 

 

 

II.        Papers and Presentations

 

MATHEMATICS

 

Allen, Edward E.

 

Lecture:  “Computational Algebraic and Game Theoretic Techniques in Modeling Protein Signaling Networks.” Mid-Atlantic Algebra Meeting, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 13 November  2004.

 

I will be presenting a paper at the FPSAC conference in June 2005.  Actual details of the date and time are not available as of May 15, 2005.  This presentation will be included in next year’s report.

 

Berenhaut, Kenneth S.

 

Paper: (with Morton, D. C. and  Fan, Y. W. ) “Bounds for Second Order Recurrences in Terms of Maximal Products over Integer Partitions.”  The Eleventh International Conference on Fibonacci Numbers and Their Applications, Braunschweig, Germany, 5-9 July 2004.

 

Paper: (with Goedhart, E. G.) “Explicit Bounds for Second Order Difference Equations.”  Joint Mathematics Meetings, Atlanta, GA, 5-8 January, 2005.

Paper: (with Goedhart, E. G.) “Explicit Bounds for Some Linear Recurrences.”  South East Regional Meeting On Numbers, Columbia, SC, 15-17 April, 2005.

Paper: (with Foley, J. D.)  “Maximal Finite Order Linear Recurrences and Related Integer Sequences.”  South East Regional Meeting On Numbers, Columbia, SC, 15-17 April, 2005.

Chair: Session on Markov chains, 2004 Summer Research Conference in Statistics, Southern Regional Council on Statistics, Blacksburg, Virginia, 6-9 June, 2004. (not included in the 2003/2004 summary)

 

 

Carmichael, Richard D.

 

Paper: “Cauchy and Poisson Integrals of Ultradistributions in D’(*,L^s).” Generalized Functions 2004: Topics in PDE, Harmonic Analysis and Mathematical Physics, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, 22 – 28 September 2004.

 

Paper: “Analytic Functions Related to L^p Type Functions, Distributions, and Ultradistributions.” Conference on Generalized Functions, Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane, Pointe a Pietre, Guadeloupe, 11 – 15 April 2005. 

 

 

 

 

Connolly, Jule M.

 

Presentation: Workshop, North Carolina Teachers of Mathematics,  34th Annual Conference,

Greensboro, NC, October 2004

 

Presentation: Workshop, North Carolina Teachers of Mathematics, Annual Meeting,

Anaheim, CA, April 2005

 

 

Howard, Fredric T.

 

Paper: “Sums of Powers of Generalized Fibonacci Numbers.” Eleventh International Conference on Fibonacci Numbers and their Applications, Braunschweig, Germany, 5 July 2004.

 

Paper: “Sums of Powers of Generalized Fibonacci Numbers.” Southeast Regional Meeting on Numbers, Columbia, South Carolina, 16 April 2005.

 

 

Howards, Hugh N.

 

Lecture: “Knoted graphs.” Conference on knots and links in spatial graphs,

Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 23 July 2004.

 

 

Jiang, Miaohua

 

Paper: “Smooth Dependence of Holonomy Maps of Hyperbolic Systems.” The 8th SIAM conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah, 22-26 May 2004.

 

 

Kirkman, Ellen

 

Paper:  “Fixed Rings of Noetherian Graded Regular Rings.” American Mathematical Society Central Section Meeting, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 23-24 October 2004.

 

 

 

Kuzmanovich, James

 

Paper: “Properties of Fixed Rings of Artin-Schelter Regular Algebras.” Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra, American Mathematical Society Meeting, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, March 18 - 19, 2005.

 

Plemmons, Robert J.

 

Paper:  “Low-Rank Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Spectral Imaging,” International Conf. on Imaging Science, Cortona, Italy, September 2004.

 

Paper:  “Pupil Phase Engineering for Extending the Depth-of Focus”, Southeastern Optical Society of America Conf., Charlotte, NC, October 2004.

 

Paper:  “Nonnegative Matrix Factorizations and Applications”, Haifa Matrix Theory Conference, Haifa, Israel, January 2005.

 

Paper:  “Computational Imaging Systems for Iris Recognition”, CIA Workshop on Iris Recognition Systems, McLean, VA, February, 2005.

 

Paper:  “High-Resolution Compound Imaging Systems”, ARDA Workshop on Advanced Imaging, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, March 2005.

 

 

Raynor, Sarah G.

 

Lecture: “Dynamics of Blowup Solutions to the Semilinear Schrodinger Equation”  Piedmont Differential Equations Seminar, September 2004.

 

Lecture: “ Ground State Mass Concentration in the L2 Critical Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation”  University of Toronto Applied Mathematics Seminar, October 2004.

 

Paper:  “Blowup Solutions to the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation” Southeast Atlantic Regional Conference in Differential Equations, October 2004.

 

Paper:  “Ground State Mass Concentration in the L2 Critical Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation” Massachusetts Institute of Technology Analysis Seminar, February 2005.

 

Paper:  “Blowup Solutions to the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation” Regional AMS Meeting in Bowling Green, KY, March 2005.


Paper:  “Blowup Solutions to the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation” Sixth Mississippi State-UAB Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations, May 2005.


Paper:  “Blowup Solutions to the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation”  Eighth New Mexico Analysis Seminar, June 2005.

Colloquium: "Why the Calculus of Variations is Cool", Wake Forest University, January 2005.

 

Rojas, Marielba

 

Paper: (with Santos, S.A. and Sorensen, D.C.) LSTRS: MATLAB software for large-scale trust-region subproblems and regularization. 11th International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics (ICCAM 2004), Leuven, Belgium, July 2004.

Paper: (with Santos, S.A. and Sorensen, D.C.) LSTRS: MATLAB software for large-scale trust-region subproblems and regularization. Householder Symposium XVI, Champion, Pennsylvania, May 2005.

 

 

 

Warrington, Gregory S.

 

Lecture:  “Square q,t-lattice Paths and Nabla(p_n).”  Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics 2005.

 

 

 

 

III.           Editorships, Offices, Consultancies

 

MATHEMATICS

 

Carmichael, Richard D.

 

Editorial Board, International Journal of Mathematical Sciences.

 

 

Howard, Fredric T.

 

President, The Fibonacci Association. 

 

 

Howards, Hugh N.

 

Assistant Editor, eCalculus.org.

 

Head Judge, National Calculus Scholarship Competition.

 

 

Kirkman, Ellen E.

 

AMS /ASA/IMS/MAA Joint Data Committee.  Met at Joint AMS/MAA meeting in Atlanta, GA 8 January 2005.  I am the AMS representative and the Chair of the committee. I am a co-author  (with AMS staff) of three articles that analyze the data the AMS gathers:

 

·       “2004 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (AMS-ASA-IMS-MAA): First Report”, Notices of the AMS, February 2005, (Volume 52, Number 2), 236-251.

·       “2003 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (AMS-ASA-IMS-MAA): Second Report”, Notices of the AMS, August 2004 (Volume 51, Number 7), 789-801.

·       “2003 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (AMS-ASA-IMS-MAA): Third Report”, Notices of the AMS, September  2004 (Volume 51, Number 8), 901-912.

 

Appointed member to the 2005 CBMS Survey Committee (of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, Washington, D.C.) (met in Atlanta 7 January 2005 and in Baltimore, MD 15-17 October 2004).

 

Appointed AMS representative to the Commission of Professionals in Science and Technology (Washington, D.C.)

 

Appointed member and chair of the AMS Southeast Section Program Committee.

 

Appointed member of the MAA Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics (CTUM) (met Atlanta 6 January 2005).

 

 

Kuzmanovich, James

 

Editorial Board, Communications in Algebra.

 

 

Plemmons, Robert J.

 

Advisory Editor, Linear Algebra and Applications

 

Editorial Board, Electronic Transactions on Numerical analysis

 

Editorial Board, Applied and Computational Control, Signals, and Circuits

 

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Section Committee (Chair)

 

Boeing Phantom Works, Seattle WA (Two weeks/yr)

 

Air Force Space Command (One month Summer)

 

 

 

IV.           External Grants Received

 

MATHEMATICS

 

Allen, Edward E.

 

$1,073,242.00     “Algebraic and Statistical Models of Redox Signaling”

                            NIH-NIGMS 1R01 GM075304

 

 

Plemmons, Robert J.

 

$50,000.00      “Pupil Phase Engineering.”

ARO Grant Supplement from CIA.

$55,000.00      “Space Situational Awareness.”

                        AFOSR-Subcontract from University of New Mexico.

 

$500,000.00    “PERIODIC System for Ultra-thin Cameras.”

                        ARDA (Intelligence Agencies)

 

$80,000.00      “Novel Integrated Optical Systems for Iris Recognition”

                        CIA Supplement through DynCorp, Inc.