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DEPARTMENTAL NEWS, 2006-2007

  • Alumni
    • Domingo Llagostera (2004 double major in mathematics and biochemistry) completed his first year of law school at the University of Houston in the top 15% of his class. He was hired by a private patent firm this summer largely because of his mathematics degree.
    • Jeff McCarty (2006 major) just completed a year long visit to New Zealand and will begin graduate studies at Oregon State with full financial support.
    • Josh Reese (2005 major) won the Best Paper Award from the Industrial Engineering department at the University of Houston. He will complete his Masters this summer and begin a job with PROS Revenue Management.
  • New Faculty: The department welcomes 3 new faculty members: E. Cabral Balreira, Ryan Daileda, and Brian Miceli. Check their web pages for more information.
  • Modeling Competition Trinity had 3 teams of 3 compete in the annual COMAP modeling competition, which took place in February of 2007. One team earned a meritorious ranking (top 13%) and another team earned honorable mention (top 27%).
    • Amanda Barth, Susan Abernathy, and Jeremy Nolan (advised by Diane Saphire) - Meritorious
    • Jordan Marshall, John Weber, Travis Givens (advised by Brian Miceli) - Honorable Mention
    • Jonathan Simpkins, Tim Nunanmaker and David Stück (advised by Bill Collins) - Successful Participant
  • After Graduation Updates
    • Amanda Barth has accepted a position at Praeses in Shreveport, LA, where she will work with databases in support of Information Management.
    • Megan Gallant will continue her studies at the University of Arizona with financial support.
    • Susan Abernathy will attend graduate school at LSU with financial support.
    • Evan O'Dea will teach English in Japan next year as part of the JET program.
    • Emily Lebens will enter Trinity's Master of Arts in Teaching program.
    • Susan Beall has accepted a position with the Federal Reserve in DC.
    • Scott Schwartz has accepted fellowship in Duke's Statistics program.
    • Juan-Carlos Suarez is going to be a research fellow in Berkley's Economics program.
  • NSF-REU Grant: Trinity's NSF-REU project in mathematics was re-funded for 3 years. All 3 reviewers scored the proposal with an "excellent," an impressive statement about the quality of the program.
  • Undergraduate Publications:
    • Melanie Jone's senior project on the pedagogical intricacies of the function concept will appear in The Ross-Hulman Undergraduate Math Journal.
    • Josh Reese recently authored paper accepted in Networks. The work was an annotated bibliography on the P-Median problem. Such publication is extremely rare.
    • Josh Reese's senior project was accepted by The Expositor, which is an annual collection of student writing. This is the first student paper in mathematics recognized for its prose.
  • Award: Juan Carlos Suarez won 2nd place for his talk titled Forecasting Mexican Inflation: the Effects of an Inflation Targeting Regime presented at the 5th annual Carroll Round (an undergraduate international economics conference at Georgetown University).
  • Phi Beta Kappa: Evan O'Dea was one of only 4 juniors to be selected into Phi Beta Kappa. Please help us congratulate him.
  • All American: Dustin Allen, a Jr. Mathematics major, is a Football All American. More to read at

INDIVIDUAL FACULTY NEWS

  • Saber Elaydi gave plenary talks in Kyoto, Okayama, Napoli (Capri), and Lisbon last summer. He also gave one-hour presentations at Rutgers University, Howard University, Technical University of Munich, and at the Advance European School in Bexbach, Germany last spring.

    He is currently serving the first year as President of the International Society of Difference Equations. The third edition of his book An introduction to difference equations, Springer-Verlag appeared in 2005. He is now writing the second edition of Discrete Chaos.

    Dr. Elaydi and two math majors, Evan O’Dea, Jennifer Ludwig, traveled to Italy to participated in the European Advanced Conference in October. They will also participate in an undergraduate workshop at the Technical University of Munich, 10/14-15. Dr. Elaydi gave a plenary talk at the conference and was the main faculty mentor for the workshop.

  • Al Holder had a paper accepted by Mathematical Methods in Operations Research that was co-authored with 5 of his NSF-REU students. He completed two other papers that are currently submitted. The Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City funded his project of completing an academic system that optimally designs radiotherapy treatments. He worked closely with two professors from St. Mary's University during the course of this research. He became the editor of the Mathematical Programming Glossary early in the summer, and he is co-editing a special issue of Algorithmic Operations Research on Biology, Health Care and Medicine.

    Dr. Holder gave a plenary address at the Rose-Hulman undergraduate conference on mathematics. He also spoke at the national INFORMS conference as well as in 3 other colloquiums.

    He directed 4 senior projects in the Spring of 2006 and 1 HHMI student over the summer. One of the senior projects is submitted to the Rose-Hulman Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics. He is directing 2 senior projects in the Fall.

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