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Compendium — Summer 2011
Presented: “Research Challenges and Solutions in Emerging Pervasive/ Ubiquitous Computing,” International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Ahsanndulla University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2010. Chaired: IEEE 35th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, Munich, Germany, July 18-22, 2011.
Dr. Matteo Arena Assistant Professor
Published: The Corporate Choice between Public Debt, Bank Loans, Traditional Private Debt Placements, and 144A Debt Issues,” Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Vol. 36 (2011), pp 391-416. Published: “It Takes Two: The Incidence and Effectiveness of Co-CEOs,” The Financial Review, Vol. 46 (2011), pp 383-410, with Stephen Ferris and Emre Unlu. Presented: “Litigation Risk, Cash Holdings, and Corporate Investment,” Oklahoma Risk Management Conference, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla., May 2011.
Dr. Dennis Brylow
Dr. Rong Ge
Grant: $289,936, “REU Site: Computation Across the Disciplines,” National Science Foundation, with Dr. Kim Factor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Published: “Hands-on Networking Labs With Embedded Routers,” Proceedings of SIGCSE 2011: The 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, (March 2011) pp 399-404, with Undergraduate Student Kyle Thurow. Presented: “Hands-On Networking Labs with Embedded Routers,” Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education: The 42nd Association for Computing Machinery Technical Symposium on Computer Science in Education, Dallas, March 2011, with Undergraduate Student Kyle Thurow.
Published: “Evaluating Parallel I/O Energy Efficiency,” Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, (December 2010). Presented: “Iso-energy-efficiency: An Approach to Power-Constrained Parallel Computation,” IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium,” Anchorage, Alaska, May 2011, with Shuaiwen Song, Chun-Yi Su, Abhinav Vishnu and Kirk Cameron.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Anne Clough Professor
Grant: $45,000, “Noninvasive Detection and Assessment of Two Common Lung Injuries,” National Institutes of Health.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Gholamhossein Hamedani Professor
Presented: “Conditional Moments, Sub-Independence and Independence,” International Conference on Applied Statistics and Financial Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, December 2010.
Dr. Peter Jones Professor
Published: “Lower semimodular inverse semigroups, II,” pp 955971; and “Semidistributive inverse semigroups, II,” pp 972-991, Communications in Algebra, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2011), with Kyeong Hee Cheong.
Dr. Gary Krenz
Chair and Professor
Published: “Characterization of the threshold for NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase activity in intact sulforaphane-treated pulmonary arterial endothelial cells,” Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Vol. 50, No. 8 (April 15, 2011), pp 953-962, with Robert Bongard, Adam Gastonguay, Carol Williams, Brian Lindemer and Marilyn Merker.
Dr. Praveen Madiraju Associate Professor
Presented: “A Context-aware Cost of Interruption Model for Mobile Devices,” Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning, Seattle, March 2011.
Dr. Dennis Brylow
Dr. Paul Bankston Professor
Published: “On the First-order Expressibility of Lattice Properties to Unicoherence,” Continua, Archive for Mathematical Logic, Vol. 50, No. 3-4 (2011), pp 503‑512. Presented: “Characterizing the Arc,” Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference, University of Texas, Tyler, Texas, March 2011.
Dr. Naveen Bansal Professor
Published: “Bayesian Decision Theoretic approach to hypotheses problems with skewed alternatives,” Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol. 140 (October 2010), pp 2,894-2,903, with Graduate Student Ru Sheng. Presented: See entry for Dr. Xin Feng, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering.
Presented: “Differential Lung Uptake of 99mTc-HMPAO and 99mTc-Duramycin in Rat Injury Models,” Small Animal SPECT Imaging Conference, Tuscon, Ariz., December 2010.
Dr. Kim Factor
Associate Professor
Grant: See entry for Dr. Dennis Brylow, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Published: “A Characterization of Connected (1,2)-Domination Graphs of Tournaments,” AKCE International Journal of Graphs Combinatorics, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2011), pp 51-62, with L. Langley. Published: “The (1,2)-Step Competition Graph of a Tournament,” Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol. 159 ( January 2011), pp 100-103, with Sarah Merz. Presented: “The (l,m)-step Competition Number of a Graph,” International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fla., March 2011.
Dr. Marta Magiera Assistant Professor
Presented: “Pre-service Elementary Teachers’ Understanding of Relational Thinking,” American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 2011, with Dr. Leigh van den Kieboom, Department of Educational Policy and Leadership, College of Education. Presented: “Pre-service Teacher Responses to Children’s Relational Thinking during Clinical Interviews,” American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 2011, with Dr. John Moyer, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science; and Dr. Leigh van den Kieboom, Department of Educational Policy and Leadership, College of Education. Presented: “Collaborative Metacognitive Interactions in SmallGroup Mathematical Problem Solving,” National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Pre-session, Indianapolis, April 2011.
Presented: “Algebra and Algebraic Thinking for Teachers and Their Students,” U.S. Department of Education, Mathematics and Science Partnership, Baltimore, February 2011, with Dr. Leigh van den Keiboom, Department of Educational Policy and Leadership, College of Education. Presented: See entry for Dr. John Moyer, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.
Dr. Stephen Merrill Professor
Edited: Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Using Real Data, (November 2010) with Robert Gregson, and Published: “Markov Chains for Identifying Nonlinear Dynamics, Chapter 17,” pp 401-423. Presented: “A Model of Thyroid Cancer Initiation and Growth in Autoimmune Thyroiditis,” North American Meeting on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Huatulco, Mexico, December 2010.
Dr. John Moyer Professor
Presented: “Teachers’ Intentions and Reflections for Classroom Instruction in a Curricular Context,” American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 2011. with Jinfa Cai, Tony Freedman and Nina Wang. Presented: “Investigating the Effects of Curricula and Classroom Emphases on Algebra Learning: Cross-Sectional Analyses,” American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 2011, with Jinfa Cai, Jeff Shih, Ning Wang and Bikai Nie. Presented: “Approaches to Developing Function Sense in Three Middle School Curricula,” National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Pre-session, Indianapolis, April 2011, with Jinfa Cai and Bikai Nie. Presented: “Analyzing Mathematics Teaching Anxiety: Assumptions, Findings and Implications for Mathematics Educators” and “Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Relational Thinking,” Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Irvine, Calif., January 2011. Presented: “Clinical Interviews: Window into Pre-service Teachers’ Learning about Students’ Mathematical Thinking” and “Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Relational Thinking,” Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Irvine, Calif., January 2011, with Dr. Marta Magiera, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Presented: See entry for Dr. Marta Magiera, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.
Farzana Rahman Teaching Assistant
Presented: “AnonPri: An Efficient Anonymous Private Authentication Protocol,” Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Pervasive Computing and Communication, Seattle, March 2011.