Scholarly Activities

The faculty members of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science are involved in many scholarly activities resulting in refereed research journal publications, refereed conference proceedings publications, books published, grant awards, presentations at conferences or other institutions, and other publications.  The faculty are also very interested in working with students on internship, honors and other research projects.  Below we list some of the products of the scholarly activities of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science faculty.  For a listing of recent student presentations on internships and research please see the For Students page or click here.   For more details regarding a particular faculty member's scholarly interests, please see their individual webpage.

Faculty Refereed Journal Publications

• Lunsford, M. L., Rowell, G. H., and Goodson-Espy, T. (2006), "Classroom Research: Assessment of Student Understanding of Sampling Distributions of Means and the Central Limit Theorem in Post-Calculus Probability and Statistics Courses," Journal of Statistics Education [On line] 14(3). www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v14n3/lunsford.html

• May, R., Abrams, W., "A Generalization of the Schur Algebra to ," Journal of Algebra, 295 (2006), 524-542.  

• Poplin, P.  "Determinantal Identities over Commutative Semirings," Linear Algebra and its Applications, Vol. 387, pp 99-132, 2004.

• Pendergrass, M., Siegrist, K., "Generalizations of Bold Play in Red and Black", Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, 92 (2001), 163-180.

• Abrams, W., May, R., "Maximal Submodules for W x A,"  Journal of Algebra, 242 (2001), 188-197.

• Lunsford, M. L., "Generalized Variational and Quasi-Variational Inequalities with Discontinuous Operators", Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 214, No. 1, Oct 1997, pp. 245-263 (doi:10.1006/jmaa.1997.5625).

Faculty Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Goodson-Espy, T. J., Lunsford, M. L., & Rowell, G. H., "A Workshop for Grade 5-12 Probability Simulations Based on Adaptations of National Science Foundation Sponsored Curriculum Materials for University Probability & Statistics,"  Proceedings of the International Conference of the Society of Information Technology and Teacher Education (refereed proceedings), March 1-5, 2005, Phoenix, AZ, (pp.3467-3472).

Faculty Grant Awards

 Books Published by Faculty

• Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon  and Nelson, Gary, Number Systems, Outskirst Press, 2007.

• Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon  and Nelson, Gary, Functions, Probability, and Statistics, Outskirts Press, 2006.

• Molisch, Andreas and Pendergrass, Marcus, et al, “UWB Propogation Channels”, in UWB Communication Systems: A Comprehensive Overview, M. G. DiBenedetto, T. Kaiser, A. F. Molisch, I. Opermann, C. Politano, and D. Porcino (eds.), EURASIP Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications, Hindawi Publishing Company, 2006.

• Burago, Yu. D. and Shoenthal, David, “Metric Geometry,” in  New Analytic and Geometric Methods in Inverse Problems (eds. K. Bingham, Y. Kurylev, E. Somersalo),  Springer-Verlag, 2004.

Recent Faculty Presentations

• Graham, John, Science vs. Democracy: Could Watson and Crick Get a Grant?   Post-Industrial Democracy Conference Panel, Global Democracy Conference, Hampden-Sydney College, January 27, 2007.

• Abrams*, William P. and Peden, Jeffery, Teaching to the Test (or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the Major Field Achievement Test.), at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 8, 2007. *presenter.

• Pendergrass, Marcus H., When Is the Derivative of a Composition the Composition of the Derivatives?, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 8, 2007.

• Hall, J. A., I Can Prove It!, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 7, 2007.

• Emerson-Stonnell, Sharon S., Using Groups and Peer Reviews in a Proof Course, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 6, 2007.

• Lewis, Virginia, Undergraduate Calculus Students' Definitions and Images of Function, invited speaker to the Longwood Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium Series, 31 October, 2006.

• Shoenthal, David, Naďve Calculus:  The Chain Rule, Contributed Paper Session, MAA Section Meeting., April 2006.

• Poplin, Phillip, Naďve Calculus:  The Product Rule, Contributed Paper Session, MAA Section Meeting., April 2006.

• Shoenthal, David, Defining Length, Departmental Colloquium, University of Mary Washington, October 2005.

• Lunsford, M. Leigh, Averaging Reduces Error, High Point University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium, March 16, 2005.

Other Recent Faculty Publications

• Lunsford, M. L., Marano, L. E., "PTP 'Women in Mathematics Delegation' Visits China," the Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, Vol. 36, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2006, pp. 17-19.