Department of Mathematics, Univeristy of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614
(319) 273-π
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Kansas, May 1997,
Mathematics
M.A. University of
Kansas, May 1994, Mathematics
B.S. University of
Kansas, May 1991, Mathematics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, University of
Northern Iowa
May 2002-present
Assistant Professor,
University of Northern Iowa
August 1999-May 2002
Research Assistant Professor,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
August 1997 - August 1999
Graduate Teaching Assistant,
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
August 1991 - May 1997
PAPERS Light Distribution of Ocular
Endophotocoagulator Probes and Its Surgical Implications, joint with M.
Whitacre, G. Timberlake, R. Stein, S.
Van Vleck and K. Dommick, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine 15 (1994) 62-73
Killing normality with a Cohen real,
joint with W. Fleissner and T. Laberge, Topology and its Applications 72 (1996) no. 2, 173-181
D-spaces, joint with W. Fleissner,
Topology and its Applications 114 (2001) no. 3, 261-271
Compactness in Countable Tychonoff
Products and Choice, joint with P. Howard, K. Keremedis
and J.E. Rubin, Math. Logic Quart. vol
46 (2000) no. 1, 3-16
Paracompactness of Metric Spaces and the
Axiom of Multiple Choice, joint with P. Howard, K. Keremedis and J.E. Rubin, Math. Logic Quart. vol
46 (2000) no. 2, 219-232
D-spaces and a Dowker Space, A. Stanley,
Dissertation, University of Kansas, 1997.
Von Rimscha's Transitivity Conditions,
joint with P. Howard
and J. Rubin, Math. Logic Quart. vol 46
(2000), no. 4 549-554.
Non-constructive properties of the real
numbers, joint with P. Howard, K. Keremedis, J. Rubin and E. Tachtsis, Math. Logic Quart. vol 47
(2001), no. 3 423-431.
Compactness and the Axiom of Choice,
joint with O. dela Cruz, E. Hall, P. Howard, J.
Rubin, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol 67, (2002)143-161.
Balanced Sets in $\mathbb{Z}^{3}_{5}$,
joint with S. Riehl and V. Rayevskaya in preparation.
Maker-Breaker Games, in preparation.
Boards and Chords: Quantifying Artificial Cranial Deformations, joint with Tyler O'Brien, in preparation.
STUDENT PAPERS The Cantor Set, Moonho Lee, 2004.
Topological Groups, Douglas Hoffman,
2005.
The Tychonoff Theorem, Christopher
Kozak, 2005.
A Donut, a Coffee Mug and a Sidewalk,
William Gongol, 2005. Continuous-Real Valued Functions of
Countably Compact Spaces, Dustin Ross, 2006. Fuzzy Logic and the Compactness Theorem,
Nathan Stanley, 2007.
Ramsey Theory, Katherine Bishop, 2008
AWARDS
Nominated for College of Natural
Sciences Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in Departmental Programs
in the area of Mathematics, Spring 2006
RESEARCH SUPPORT
Coherent Laser, January - May 1991
INVITED ADDRESSES D-spaces
and Box Products, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar
Falls, Iowa April 1997. Normal
subspaces of finite products of ordinals, AMS Special
Sessions, Wake Forest University, October 1998. Linearly
Lindel{\"o}f spaces, UNI, March 1999. Pascal's
Triangle, UNI Fall Math Conference, UNI, September 2001 Canonical
Approximations and $C_{p}(X)$, AMS Special Sessions
University of Kansas, March 2001. Canonical
Approximations and Realcompact Spaces, AMS Special
Sessions, UNLV, April 2001 Probability
and Lotteries, UNI Fall Math Conference, UNI, September
2002
CONTRIBUTED TALKS Killing
normality with a Cohen real, Boise Extravaganza in Set
Theory, Boise State University, March 1996. Metacompact
D-spaces in finite products of ordinals, Spring Topology
Conference, University of Southwestern Louisiana, April 1997.
REFEREE
Topology and its Applications, September
1998
Mid-Atlantic Mathematical Logic Seminar
at Rutgers Proceedings, December 2000
Topology and its Applications, August
2001 Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, October 2007
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
College Algebra
Math and Decision Making
Analysis for Business Students
Trigonometry
Introduction to Statistical Methods
Calculus I, II and III (traditional and
reform format)
Differential Equations (with Matlab)
Linear Algebra
Mathematical Logic
Functional Analysis I and II
Modern Algebra I and II
Set Theory
Combinatorics
Topology I and II
Introduction to Modern Geometry
Topics in Set Theory and Logic: Boolean
Algebras
Mathematical Analysis I and II (both
undergraduate and graduate levels)
Topics in Discrete Mathematics (Masters
level)
SERVICE
Organizer of Integration Bee,
2003-present
Organizer of Combinatorics Seminar
2005-present
Organizer of Math Day! November 2006
Reader for AP Calculus exam, June 2006,
June 2007, June 2008
Senior Reviewer for AP Calculus, October
2006-February 2008
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Member of Sigma Xi, Scientific Research
Society, 2004-to present
DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES
SubPac 2005-present
Search Committee (Chair) 2005-2006
Student Recruitment and
Retention (Chair) (2006-present)
Student representative on Hiring
Committee, University of Kansas, Spring 1995.
Student representative on Calculus
Committee, University of Kansas, Fall 1996.
Mathematics Committee, UNI, 1999-present
Scholarship Committee (co-chair), UNI,
1999-2003
Promotion and Tenure Committee, UNI,
2002-present
Search Committee, UNI, 1999-2000
Math Minor Subcommittee (Chair), UNI,
1999-2000
Visiting Professor Search Committee,
UNI, 1999-2000
Head Search Committee, UNI,
2001-2003
Colloquium Committee (Chair), UNI,
2003-2006
Statistics Position Search Committee,
UNI, 2004-2005
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE
College of Natural Science Promotion and
Tenure Committee, UNI, Spring 2003
College of Natural Science Promotion and
Tenure Committee, UNI, Spring 2005
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
Sacks Symposium, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, May 1993.
Spring Topology Conference, Ball State
University, March 1996.
Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory, Boise
State University, March 1996.
Joint Meetings of the AMS, San Diego CA,
January 1997.
Spring Topology Conference, University
of Southwestern Louisiana, April 1997.
Spring Topology Conference, George Mason
University, March 1998.
AMS Special Sessions, Wake Forest
University, October 1998.
Spring Topology Conference, University
of Texas San Antonio, March 2000.
Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory, Boise
State University, March 2000.
AMS Special Sessions, University of
Kansas, March 2001
AMS Special Sessions, UNLV, April 2001
MAA Iowa Section, Sioux City IA, April
2002
Zolton Balogh Memorial Conference, Miami
University, Oxford Ohio, November 2002
Spring Topology Conference, Texas Tech
University, March 2003
AMS Special Sessions, Davidson College,
North Carolina, March 2007