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Mathematics Department News, Fall 2007
  • We are excited to announce that we will have two new members of our department in the fall!  Dr. Anne Catlla earned her Ph.D. at Northwestern, and is completing a postdoc at Duke University.  Her specialty is biomathematics.  Mr. Joseph Spivey is completing his Ph.D. at Duke.  His thesis is in the area of algebraic topology.
  • We are delighted that Angela Shiflet has been elected to serve as the Section Lecturer for the Southeastern Section of the MAA during the 2007-2008 year. 
  • Charlotte Knotts-Zides has finished her term as Chair of the Section and will serve a term this year as Past-Chair. 
  • Ted Monroe has been appointed as chair of the department. 
  • This fall, we welcomed a new colleague, Luke Ingram, to the department;  Luke completed his Masters degree at the College of Charleston and is teaching here as a full-time instructor.  
  • Last spring, Neal Smith of Augusta State University gave a presentation on “Partition Statistics and the q-Fibonacci Sequence” during the Guy Jacobsohn Memorial Mathematics Colloquium Series and, in return, Matt Cathey traveled to Augusta State to give a presentation on conformal mappings and medical imaging.  
  • During the fall colloquium series, Professor James Kuzmanovich of Wake Forest University gave a delightful talk combining history and mathematics entitled “How the Poles Broke Enigma Prior to World War II”.  
  • This summer, Angela Shiflet presented a talk on "Internships and Work Experience in Undergraduate CSE Education Undergraduate" at the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Switzerland; an invited talk, "Reaching Out to Science Students with Computational Science and Modeling," at the AAPT Topical Conference on Computational Physics for Upper-Level Physics Programs; and a poster with George Shiflet on "Introducing Spread-of-Disease Modeling to Introductory Microbiology Students" at the American Society of Microbiologists Conference.  
  • Ryan Hill, a senior mathematics major, participated in the Community of Scholars, a ten-week summer research experience on-campus funded by the Fullerton Foundation.  Working with Charlotte Knotts-Zides, his faculty sponsor, Ryan researched an idea he called nearly almost perfect numbers, a variation on perfect numbers.  In addition to a paper he has already written, Ryan plans to present his research at the Spring MAA-SE conference. 
  • Another math major, Stephen Strickland, participated in a summer internship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he worked on “An Examination of Martian Topographical Dichotomy Using SHARAD Data and an Analysis of Martian Gullies for Future Campaigns.”  
  • Four mathematics graduates have enrolled in graduate work in mathematics:  Jennifer Aust at the University of Tennessee, Chris Gillam at Clemson University, Ben Ingram at the University of South Carolina, and Caroline Turnage at Wake Forest University.