The Department of Math will host the annual national meeting of the Research Council in Mathematics Learning in March 2010. Dr. Carolyn Pinchback, professor of mathematics, played a crucial role in bringing the conference to UCA.
The Department of Computer Science hosted the 2009 PyArkansas Conference on Nov. 14. Professors Bernard Chen and Chenyi Hu of the computer science department delivered the sessions Python 101 for Beginners and Image Processing Python. Python is a popular high level computer programming language.
Dr. Ginny Adams, assistant professor in the Department of Biology and the Environmental Science Program coordinator, gave a presentation on the priority watersheds in Arkansas for fish conservation at the Southeastern Fishes Council at Lake Guntersville State Park in Alabama in November. Five students gave oral presentations and two gave poster presentations at the council meeting.
Dr. Patrick Carmack, assistant professor of mathematics, received contracts totaling $104,837 from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas over the past two academic years and the summer of 2009 for conducting statistical analysis in brain imagining research to improve spatial modeling to better detect affected portions of the brain in diseased subjects. Dr. Carmack also gave a talk recently on nonparametric semivariogram and nugget estimation in the Department of Statistical Science at the Southern Methodist University.
Drs. Danny Arrigo, George Bratton, Clarence Burg, Ramesh Garimella, and Charles Watson, mathematics faculty, offered professional development workshops in calculus and college algebra for high school teachers in central Arkansas who were scheduled to teach UCA concurrent math courses for the 2009-10 academic year. The Division of Academic Outreach and Extended Programs of UCA provided funding for the workshops.
Dr. Weijiu Liu, assistant professor of mathematics, has written an advanced textbook Elementary Feedback Stabilization of the Linear Reaction-Convection Diffusion Equation and the Wave Equation. The book was published by Springer under the series Mathematics & Applications Vol. 66. Dr. Liu joined the Mathematics Department in 2005. He has published over 40 papers in professional journals.