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Students, Please note that the faculty members in the Department of
Mathematics are very interested in working with undergraduate students
on research projects. You can get a sense of our interests
below. Please drop by our offices or e-mail us to discuss
research possibilities.
- Dr. Denny will be on
sabbatical in Spring 2008 semester at the Mercer University Medical
School working on modeling how the heart heals after a heart attack.
- Dr. Denny has published
the paper "Computing and Fitting SSNMR Powder Patterns with the
Arithmetic-Geometric Mean and Edge Detection," in the journal Concepts in Magnetic Resonance in
January 2007 with Mercer mathematics major Britt Daniel. Dr.
Denny also published "Cooling the Macon Volunteer Clinic" with recent
Mercer mathematics graduate Carrie Trivett in the Winter 2006 issue of The UMAP Journal.
- Dr. Denny and Dr. Yackel have written a joint
paper that is an exposition on partial fractions in several settings
(calculus, elementary number theory and commutative ring theory).
The paper appeared in the College
Mathematics Journal in November
2007.
- Dr. Herink was the MAA
State Director from 2004 until 2007.
- At the Spring 2007 Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the MAA, Dr. Herink gave a talk titled “A
class of groups related to Sudoku” on work that was inspired by his
supervision of Kimberly Conner’s Honors project.
- Dr. Howard has given
talks on a differential equations model for cultural influences on
developing policies concerning HIV control, based on data on HIV
control programs developed in England and Sweden. He has also
spoken on this topic at Morehouse College’s departmental colloquium,
at the 25th Annual Southeastern-Atlantic Differential Equations
Conference at the University of Dayton, and at the Southeastern
Atlantic Conference on Differential Equations.
- Dr. Howard is on the
Steering Committee for the Southeastern Atlantic Conference on
Differential Equations.
- Dr. Nelson was elected
outstanding faculty member of the year by the Mercer Student Government
Association, 2005-2006
- Dr. Symington has had a
joint paper with Dr. David Gay, titled “Toric structures on
near-symplectic four-manifolds,” accepted for publication in the Journal of the European Mathematical
Society. She plans to spend visit Dr. Gay at the
Universtiy of Cape Town for two weeks this spring to continue the
collaboration.
- During the summer of 2006, Dr.
Symington gave talks on her work with Dr. David Gay at the
Workshop in Geometry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at the
International Conference on Toric Topology in Osaka, Japan.
- Dr. Yackel has,
with dr. sarah-marie belcastro, edited and contributed chapters to a
book titled Making Mathematics with Needlework. This edited
volume will appear in December, 2007, published by A.K. Peters. Dr. Yackel has presented work in art
exhibits. Of particular interest is her collaborative “Dual
Tori,” two tori, one crocheted and one knitted that she made with
sarah-marie belcastro. The crocheted object exhibits a seven
coloring of the
torus while the knitted object shows the dual (adjacency) graph, namely
an embedding of K_7 on the torus. Recently, Dr. Yackel organized a special
session on Mathematics and Mathematics Education in Fiber Arts at
the
2005 Joint Mathematics Meetings.
- Dr. Yackel was an
invited participant at the 2005 Bridges Conference at The
Banff Center, Alberta, Canada.