DEPARTMENTAL NEWS (Archives)

• Goldwater Scholar: Jon Simpkins, an engineering major and math minor, received a Goldwater Scholarship. Please help us congratulate him.
• Putnam Results: Twelve students braved the annual Putnam exam last December, a test with a typical median score of 1. Six of these individuals had positive scores:
  • Mark Girard - 20 points
  • John Weber - 10 points
  • David Stuck - 4 points
  • Travis Givens - 3 points
  • Matt Maly - 2 points
  • Brian Fitzpatrick - 1 point.
  The first 3 composed Trinity's team and were ranked 90 out of 413 teams. Others taking the exam were Robyn Brooks, Robert Danhof, Dwight Lutz, Ollie McDonald, Tim Nunamacher and Matthew Patty. Please help us congratulate these students.
• Rebecca Haas will enter Ph.D. studies in Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M with full support after graduation in May.
• Jocelyn Stokes has offers from Rutgers, Oklahoma State and Florida State (with full funding) to continue with graduate studies in financial mathematics.
• Susan Abernathy, 2007 alumnus, passed Ph.D. exams in Analysis and Topology at LSU.
• Domingo Lara, 2005 alumnus, has accepted a position at Altarum after completing graduate studies at UT-Austin in Operations Research.
• Leslie-Anne Juarez, 2007 alumna, recieved medical school invitations from the University of Texas Health Science Centers at Southwestern, San Antonio and Galveston. She has decided to attend UTHSC Southwestern. She also completed her first a half marathon in October.
• John Weber was accepted into the Budapest program and will travel to Hungary next year to study. Please help us celebrate this honor.
• Jeremy Nolan, 2007 alumnus, recently accepted a postion with the Denim Group
• Ryan Accosta, 2005 alumnus, passed his Ph.D. qualifying exams in computational mathematics at Stanford University.
• Josh Reese, 2005 alumnus, helped make a short film.
• Summer Research
  • Trinity's NSF-REU project in mathematics completed with 12 students being directed in the areas of algebra, combinatorics, and number theory by Drs. Chapman, Miceli and Daileda.
  • Timothy Nunmaker was an HHMI student over the summer working in the area of systems biology. See the associated poster

• Dr. E. Cabral Balreira’s article Foliations and Global Inversion is accepted for publication on Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. He has given a few seminar lectures on the Topic at the Universidade Federal do Ceará in the summer of 2007. He will give a talk at the 2008 Spring Southeastern Meeting of the AMS at LSU.

• Scott Chapman was the principal investigator of a $261,154 NSF-REU grant, which allowed the program to continue through 2009. He was also awareded a $23,800 Professional Enhancement grant from the MAA and NSF to hold a PREP workshop titled The Art of Factorization in Multiplicative Structures. He additionally had 15 papers appear or accepted in peer-reviewed journals and has an additional 4 under review.

  Dr. Chapman was the Keynote Speaker at the University of Tennessee Undergradaute conference and the MAA-PREP workshop and gave 2 additional invited colloquia. Three journals garnered him with editorial responsibilities: American Mathematics Monthly, Involve and Journal of Commutative Algebra .

  Dr. Chapman's focus on undergraduate research continued as he directed both Megan Gallant's honors thesis and 6 REU students, the later of which produced 3 preprints. In the fall he will teach Calculus II, Linear Algebra and the Majors Seminar.

• Saber Elaydi has been busy completing the second edition of Discrete Chaos and launching the new journal Journal of Biological Dynamics, for which he is co-Editor-in-Chief. He further continues as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Difference Equations and Applications. In the fall he will teach Calculus II and Math Models in Life Sciences.

• Al Holder was on sabbatical during the Spring of 2007. He completed an invited tutorial on systems biology, two articles for a research encyclopedia on optimization, and another research paper relating two clustering techniques. He additionally had 3 articles accepted, which will appear in Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 4OR and Challenges in Biological Networks. He gave 3 talks/colloquiums on various research topics and continues his editorial responsibilities.

  Over the summer he directed the HHMI student Timothy Nunamaker, who began the computational effort of an interdisciplinary program to understand the metabolic networks of ecoli. In the Fall of 2007 he will teach Calculus A and Mathematical Modeling and will work on an invited review for the MAA.