Fall 2006
Contents:
Dr. Carla
Tayeh and Dr. Barbara Britton continue to be writers
for
the Problem Solvers section of Teaching Children Mathematics, a
journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Dr. Xiaoxu
Han submitted/published this year the following papers:
1.
Molecular Pattern Discovery by Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
based Subspace Kernel Clustering (submitted)
2.
The Local Z-Buffering Rendering. To be published in the IAENG
Journal of Computer Science, March 2007 Issue Joint with Mike Zeiger
3.
Local Z-buffering Rendering in Large Complex Scenes.
Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Computer Graphics
& Virtual Reality (CGVR 06), p72-78, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June,
2006
4.
Multispecies Gene Entropy Estimation, a Data Mining Approach.
Advances in Data Mining, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI) 4065, p38 – 52, 2006.
5. Resolve the Gene Tree and Species Tree Problem by Phylogenetic
Mining . Proceedings of 4th Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference
(APBC), Imperial College Press, London, p287-296
6.
A machine learning approach to resolving incongruence in molecular
phylogenies and visualization analysis. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE
Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology, CIBCB '05, IEEE press, p. 346-353
Dr. Gisela Ahlbrandt and Dr. Chris Gardiner
co-authored the first edition of a Mathematical Reasoning package
designed for Math 110 students.
Dr. Joanne Caniglia and Dr. Krish Narayanan coauthored Retaining Freshman Interest in Mathematics and Computer Science Using Collaborative and Experiential Learning, published in Michigan Section - MAA Newsletter.
Dr. Ovidiu Calin has held
his Spring/Summer Research Award in Taiwan where he was one of the co-organizers
of the SubRiemannian Geometry section of the summer school at NCTS at Hsin
Chu University. He also delivered talks at National Taiwan University in Taipei
and Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica as well as at Georgetown University.
Among the submitted/published papers this year:
1. Fundamental solutions for Hermite and subelliptic operators,
to appear in J. d'Analyse Math., (2006).
2. Fundamental solutions for a family of sub-elliptic PDEs,
to appear in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, (2006).
3. Periodic solutions for a family of Euler-Lagrange systems,
to appear in Asian J. Math., (2006).
4. SubRiemannian geometry on S^3, submitted (2006).