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Groups Of Graphs Of Groups, David P. Byrne, Matthew J. Donner, Thomas Q. Sibley Mar 2012

Groups Of Graphs Of Groups, David P. Byrne, Matthew J. Donner, Thomas Q. Sibley

Mathematics Faculty Publications

We classify all groups of color preserving automorphisms (isometries) of edge colored complete graphs derived from finite groups.


Session D-3: Discrete Mathematics: A Great Curriculum Connector, Donald Porzio Mar 2012

Session D-3: Discrete Mathematics: A Great Curriculum Connector, Donald Porzio

Professional Learning Day

Many topics that fall under the umbrella of Discrete Mathematics cut across the traditional high school curriculum areas of algebra, geometry, and pre-calculus. Come try some classroom-ready hands-on Discrete Mathematics activities that illustrate the true interconnectedness of mathematics.


What Mathematics Do Elementary Education Teachers Need To Know?, Bret Benesh Mar 2012

What Mathematics Do Elementary Education Teachers Need To Know?, Bret Benesh

Forum, 2012 Spring

Almost no one is happy with the state of America's mathematics education. I examine the mathematics textbooks elementary education majors commonly use in college to determine what effect this might be having on their future elementary school students. In this Thursday Forum, I report on what I found in these textbooks---and why I do not like them. I then supply an alternative vision that would better serve our elementary school students.


Temporal Topos And U-Singularities, Goro C. Kato Mar 2012

Temporal Topos And U-Singularities, Goro C. Kato

Mathematics

Several papers and books by C. Isham, C.Isham-A. Doering, F. Van Oystaeyen, A.Mallios-I. Raptis, C. Mulvey, and Guts and Grinkevich, have been published on the methods of categories and sheaves to study quantum gravity. Needless to say, there are well-written treatises on quantum gravity whose methods are non-categorical and non-sheaf theoretic. This paper may be one of the first papers explaining the methods of sheaves with minimally required background that retains experimental applications. Temporal topos (t-topos) is related to the topos approach to quantum gravity being developed by Prof. Chris Isham of the Oxford-Imperial research group (with its foundations inthe …


Undergraduate Students' Self-Reported Use Of Mathematics Textbooks, Aaron Weinberg, Emilie Wiesner, Bret Benesh, Timothy Boester Mar 2012

Undergraduate Students' Self-Reported Use Of Mathematics Textbooks, Aaron Weinberg, Emilie Wiesner, Bret Benesh, Timothy Boester

Mathematics Faculty Publications

Textbooks play an important role in undergraduate mathematics courses and have the potential to impact student learning. However, there have been few studies that describe students' textbook use in detail. In this study, 1156 undergraduate students in introductory mathematics classes were surveyed, and asked to describe how they used their textbook. The results indicate that students tend to use examples, instead of the expository text, to build their mathematical understanding, which instructors may view as problematic. This way of using the textbook may be the result of the textbook structure itself, as well as students' beliefs about reading and the …


A Multidimensional Ruin Problem, S Ramasubramanian Mar 2012

A Multidimensional Ruin Problem, S Ramasubramanian

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Roots Of States, B V Rajarama Bhat Mar 2012

Roots Of States, B V Rajarama Bhat

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Lévy Processes Through Time Shift On Oscillator Weyl Algebra, Luigi Accardi, Habib Ouerdiane, Habib Rebei Mar 2012

Lévy Processes Through Time Shift On Oscillator Weyl Algebra, Luigi Accardi, Habib Ouerdiane, Habib Rebei

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


A Vacuum-Adapted Approach To Quantum Feynman-Kac Formulae, Alexander C R Belton, J Martin Lindsay, Adam G Skalski Mar 2012

A Vacuum-Adapted Approach To Quantum Feynman-Kac Formulae, Alexander C R Belton, J Martin Lindsay, Adam G Skalski

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Multiple Q-Adapted Integrals And Itô Formula Of Noncommutative Stochastic Calculus In Fock Space, V P Belavkin, M F Brown Mar 2012

Multiple Q-Adapted Integrals And Itô Formula Of Noncommutative Stochastic Calculus In Fock Space, V P Belavkin, M F Brown

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


The Early Years Of Quantum Stochastic Calculus, R L Hudson Mar 2012

The Early Years Of Quantum Stochastic Calculus, R L Hudson

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Professional Learning Community Impacts On Student Achievement In Middle School Mathematics, Jessica Stuewe Mar 2012

Professional Learning Community Impacts On Student Achievement In Middle School Mathematics, Jessica Stuewe

Mathematics Graduate Theses

The development of professional learning communities in middle level education is a relatively new and trendy concept sweeping the nation. School professional development committees are training large numbers of teachers through conferences, book studies and online webinars on how to collaborate to improve student learning. This research will explore the impact of the first year of implementation of a departmental professional learning community (PLC) on student achievement at the middle school level in the content area of mathematics. Student standardized test scores from 2010 and 2011 will be compared as a measure of success of the PLC. Teacher surveys are …


Large Deviations For Random Matrices, Sourav Chatterjee, S R S Varadhan Mar 2012

Large Deviations For Random Matrices, Sourav Chatterjee, S R S Varadhan

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Some Problems Involving Airy Functions, V S Varadarajan Mar 2012

Some Problems Involving Airy Functions, V S Varadarajan

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


An Interpolating Family Of Means, Rajendra Bhatia, Ren-Cang Li Mar 2012

An Interpolating Family Of Means, Rajendra Bhatia, Ren-Cang Li

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Hilbert Von Neumann Modules, Panchugopal Bikram, Kunal Mukherjee, R. Srinivasan, V S Sunder Mar 2012

Hilbert Von Neumann Modules, Panchugopal Bikram, Kunal Mukherjee, R. Srinivasan, V S Sunder

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Bell's Inequality Violations: Relation With De Finetti's Coherence Principle And Inferential Analysis Of Experimental Data, Franco Fagnola, Matteo Gregoratti Mar 2012

Bell's Inequality Violations: Relation With De Finetti's Coherence Principle And Inferential Analysis Of Experimental Data, Franco Fagnola, Matteo Gregoratti

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


A Cautionary Note On Generalized Linear Models For Covariance Of Unbalanced Longitudinal Data, Jianhua Z. Huang, Min Chen, Mehdi Maadooliat, Mohsen Pourahmadi Mar 2012

A Cautionary Note On Generalized Linear Models For Covariance Of Unbalanced Longitudinal Data, Jianhua Z. Huang, Min Chen, Mehdi Maadooliat, Mohsen Pourahmadi

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

Missing data in longitudinal studies can create enormous challenges in data analysis when coupled with the positive-definiteness constraint on a covariance matrix. For complete balanced data, the Cholesky decomposition of a covariance matrix makes it possible to remove the positive-definiteness constraint and use a generalized linear model setup to jointly model the mean and covariance using covariates (Pourahmadi, 2000). However, this approach may not be directly applicable when the longitudinal data are unbalanced, as coherent regression models for the dependence across all times and subjects may not exist. Within the existing generalized linear model framework, we show how to overcome …


What Mathematics Do Elementary Education Teachers Need To Know?, Bret Benesh Mar 2012

What Mathematics Do Elementary Education Teachers Need To Know?, Bret Benesh

Forum Lectures

Almost no one is happy with the state of America's mathematics education. I examine the mathematics textbooks elementary education majors commonly use in college to determine what effect this might be having on their future elementary school students. In this Thursday Forum, I report on what I found in these textbooks---and why I do not like them. I then supply an alternative vision that would better serve our elementary school students.


A Common Framework For Restriction Semigroups And Regular *-Semigroups, Peter R. Jones Mar 2012

A Common Framework For Restriction Semigroups And Regular *-Semigroups, Peter R. Jones

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

Left restriction semigroups have appeared at the convergence of several flows of research, including the theories of abstract semigroups, of partial mappings, of closure operations and even in logic. For instance, they model unary semigroups of partial mappings on a set, where the unary operation takes a map to the identity map on its domain. This perspective leads naturally to dual and two-sided versions of the restriction property. From a varietal perspective, these classes of semigroups–more generally, the corresponding classes of Ehresmann semigroups–derive from reducts of inverse semigroups, now taking a to a+=aa−1 (or, dually, …


On Soliton Interactions For A Hierarchy Of Generalized Heisenberg Ferromagnetic Models On Su(3)/S(U(1) $\Times$ U(2)) Symmetric Space, Vladimir Gerdjikov, Georgi Grahovski, Alexander Mikhailov, Tihomir Valchev Mar 2012

On Soliton Interactions For A Hierarchy Of Generalized Heisenberg Ferromagnetic Models On Su(3)/S(U(1) $\Times$ U(2)) Symmetric Space, Vladimir Gerdjikov, Georgi Grahovski, Alexander Mikhailov, Tihomir Valchev

Articles

We consider an integrable hierarchy of nonlinear evolution equations (NLEE) related to linear bundle Lax operator L. The Lax representation is Z2 \times Z2 reduced and is naturally associated with the symmetric space SU(3)/S(U(1) \times U(2)). The simplest nontrivial equation in the hierarchy is a generalization of Heisenberg ferromagnetic model. We construct the N-soliton solutions for an arbitrary member of the hierarchy by using the Zakharov-Shabat dressing method with an appropriately chosen dressing factor. Two types of soliton solutions: quadruplet and doublet solitons are found. The one-soliton solutions of NLEEs with even and odd dispersion laws have different properties. In …


Improving Education Of Mathematics Majors, Goran Lesaja Mar 2012

Improving Education Of Mathematics Majors, Goran Lesaja

Mathematical Sciences: Faculty Presentations (1991-2022)

In this talk we will explore and discuss different ways of improving instruction of upper level mathematics classes. Several case studies will be presented, including in Calculus and Operations Research courses. We will also discuss the importance of extracurricular activities in education of mathematics majors. In particular, we will describe activities related to undergraduate mathematics competitions.


Ball Remotality In Banach Spaces And Related Topics., Tanmoy Paul Feb 2012

Ball Remotality In Banach Spaces And Related Topics., Tanmoy Paul

Doctoral Theses

In this project we aim to study Ball Remotality and densely Ball Remotality of subspaces in Banach spaces. We study this property in many classical spaces of type c0, c,\\â„“p and C(K) where K is a compact Hausdorff space. The said problem also discussed for Banach spaces when considered as a subspace in its bidual. It is observed M-ideals in C(K) are densely ball remotal. It is shown that a particular type of M-ideal in A(K) where K is a Choquet simplex is densely ball remotal.


Some Results On Cryptanalysis Of Rsa And Factorization., Santanu Sarkar Dr. Feb 2012

Some Results On Cryptanalysis Of Rsa And Factorization., Santanu Sarkar Dr.

Doctoral Theses

In this thesis, we propose some new results in Cryptanalysis of RSA and related Factorization problems. Till date, the best known algorithm to solve the Integer Factorization problem is the Number Field Sieve, which has a runtime greater than exp(log1/3 N) for factoring an integer N. However, if one obtains certain information about the RSA parameters, there are algorithms which can factor the RSA modulus N = pq quite efficiently. The intention of this thesis is to identify such weaknesses of the RSA cryptosystem and its variants. Further we study results related to factorization.In Africacrypt 2008, Nitaj presented a class …


Variational Models Of Network Formation And Ion Transport: Applications To Perfluorosulfonate Ionomer Membranes, Nir Gavish, Jaylan Jones, Zhengfu Xu, Andrew Christlieb, Keith Promislow Feb 2012

Variational Models Of Network Formation And Ion Transport: Applications To Perfluorosulfonate Ionomer Membranes, Nir Gavish, Jaylan Jones, Zhengfu Xu, Andrew Christlieb, Keith Promislow

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

We present the functionalized Cahn-Hilliard (FCH) energy, a continuum characterization of interfacial energy whose minimizers describe the network morphology of solvated functionalized polymer membranes. With a small set of parameters the FCH characterizes bilayer, pore-like, and micelle network structures. The gradient flows derived from the FCH describe the interactions between these structures, including the merging and pinch-off of endcaps and formation of junctions central to the generation of network morphologies. We couple the FCH gradient flow to a model of ionic transport which incorporates entropic effects to localize counter-ions, yielding a flow which dissipates a total free energy, and an …


Quantum Mechanics Entropy And A Quantum Version Of The H-Theorem, Paul Bracken Feb 2012

Quantum Mechanics Entropy And A Quantum Version Of The H-Theorem, Paul Bracken

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Modeling Spontaneous Three-Dimensional Polymerization, Zhitong Zhao Feb 2012

Modeling Spontaneous Three-Dimensional Polymerization, Zhitong Zhao

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

For human beings, the origin of life has always been an interesting and mysterious matter, particularly how life arose from inorganic matter through natural processes. Polymerization is always involved in such processes. In this paper we built what we refer to as ideal and physical models to simulate spontaneous polymerization based on certain physical principles. As the modeling confirms, without taking external energy, small and simple inorganic molecules formed bigger and more complicated molecules, which are necessary ingredients of all living organisms. In our simulations, we utilized actual ranges of parameters according to their experimentally observed values. The results from …


From Velocities To Fluxions, Marco Panza Feb 2012

From Velocities To Fluxions, Marco Panza

MPP Published Research

"Though the De Methodis results, for its essential structure and content, from a re-elaboration of a previous unfinished treatise composed in the Fall of 1666—now known, after Whiteside, as The October 1666 tract on fluxions ([22], I, pp. 400-448)—, the introduction of the term ‘fluxion’ goes together with an important conceptual change concerned with Newton’s understanding of his own achievements. I shall argue that this change marks a crucial step in the origins of analysis, conceived as an autonomous mathematical theory."


Book Review: Philosophy Of Science After Feminism By Janet Kourany, Gizem Karaali Feb 2012

Book Review: Philosophy Of Science After Feminism By Janet Kourany, Gizem Karaali

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

Janet Kourany’s book is a strange one: published by Oxford University Press (as a part of its Studies in Feminist Philosophy series), it is an academically oriented book, but reading it, you sense that this is not yet another theoretical monograph. For Kourany has her ax to grind, and more importantly she has a program to promote. The program is for philosophers of science and is motivated and encouraged by the amazing work done in the past few decades by feminist scientists and feminist scholars of science, technology, and society. In the following I will try to explain why I …


Juggling By Numbers: Siteswap Notation For Juggling, David Tate Feb 2012

Juggling By Numbers: Siteswap Notation For Juggling, David Tate

Browse All Undergraduate research

A basic overview of the juggling notation known as "Siteswap". This is a way of describing juggling patterns using sequences of numbers.