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NEWSLETTER OF THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

Summer 2001 Issue No 6 Editor: Dr. Lyndell Kerley

CHAIR’S THOUGHTS

Dr. Anant Godbole

It has been a delightful first year for me at ETSU. It is always hard to move after a long stay in one place, and I must admit I was quite nervous in April 2000 when trying to decide between moving to Kennesaw State University near Atlanta, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, or East Tennessee State University. I was convinced soon after my arrival in Johnson City in June 2000 that I had made the right decision. It is a pleasure being at the helm of a department in which faculty and students are able to unite and implement reform in such a harmonious fashion. It is heartwarming to note how people focus on “getting the job done” while putting aside personal differences and conflicts. It is a joy to teach classes in which ETSU students reveal that they are second to none in their hard work, loyalty, dedication and respect for learning and the teacher.

The academic year began with a great social event, the annual fall picnic at Rotary Park in Johnson City. The event was well attended by faculty, staff, students, and their families. The Christmas holiday party was held at Anant and Kalpana Godbole’s house, and this event too was a resounding success. A baby shower was held for Genie Jackson, Laura Price and Lori Hopkins in February, and the year’s special activities were capped off by the annual honors banquet at which our finest students, scholarship recipients, and Kappa Mu Epsilon inductees were honored with the guest speaker being Dr. Gary Henson of the ETSU Physics Department.

Bill Dotson’s 10 years of service to ETSU came to an end when he decided to retire at the end of fall semester. We will miss Bill’s wry sense of humor and huge contributions to the teaching mission of the department. We wish him well in his future endeavors. Two faculty members will be on full-year non-instructional assignments (NIAs) in 2001-02: Don Hong will spend the year as a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, and Janice Huang will be in Cameroon, Africa, at the University of Buea. During the current year, George Poole was on an NIA during the spring, and spent his time doing research and working on the development of an Internet version of MATH 1080 (soon to be re-named MATH 1530).

Our graduate students have been busy too. Readers will find details elsewhere on the fine positions our M.S. graduates acquired. Ken Proffitt and Genie Jackson gave talks at the DIMACS workshop on distance in graphs, while Genie Jackson, Kevin Lynch and Scott LaVoie have been awarded fellowships to attend the North Carolina State workshop on mathematical modeling in the summer. Undergraduate students Jason Lewis, Dayla Pike, Gabe Zimmer, and Jacob Benfield gave excellent talks at the North Carolina Mini- Conference held at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., during April. Jason Lewis, Clayton Clark, and Mike Polson accompanied Dr. Kerley to the Annual Southeastern Sectional Mathematics Association of America (MAA) meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, in March.

My focus as chair has been on three initiatives: to improve student learning in MATH 1080; to plan, propose and implement a Ph.D. program in mathematics; and to successfully secure more external funding for the department. Next year’s newsletter will contain details on the outcomes of these efforts. Let me, however, point out what we are presently doing: a preliminary proposal for the Ph.D. has been written and was discussed at the June meeting of the Academic Council.

Jeff Knisley is spearheading the writing of an NSF-CCLI proposal to integrate lecture and lab into a MATH 1080 experience that will be quite novel. Several proposals are being written feverishly. Debra Knisley and I worked on an NSF-CBMS conference proposal. Jeff Knisley and Janice Huang wrote a most innovative proposal to begin a Math Department/Hand On! Museum collaboration. We eagerly await the outcome of these efforts. Much more is being done, but I will stop bragging now about the department. I do consider myself very fortunate to be a part of our progressive department and look forward to the coming year.

Research Experience for Undergraduates Program(REU)

Dr. Godbole’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program, funded by the NSF (web page http://www.etsu.edu/math/godbole/nsf.htm) was held at ETSU for the first time last summer. Students included in the program: Dan Ramras (Cornell University); Betsy Sinclair (University of Redlands); Sam Greenberg (Oberlin College); Julia Eaton (University of Rochester); Julia Salzman (Princeton University); Carl Miller (Duke University); Adam Wierman (Carnegie Mellon University); and Dorea Claassen (University of Nebraska). There will be a new crew of eight students during the summer of 2001, and three local high school teachers as well. Funding under NSF award DMS-0049015 will continue through June 2002.

GRADUATE PROGRAM NEWS

Dr. Debra Knisley

Fifteen graduate students, plus five part-time graduate students, filled the ranks of the graduate program. The graduate program, which offers a flexible program, had students choose concentrations in actuarial science, graph theory, statistics, computational and applied mathematics and algebraic structures.

Our students are notably active in presenting their research through various forums. Genie Jackson and Kenny Proffitt were invited to participate in a week-long DIMACS workshop at Piscattaway, New Jersey. DIMACS, a consortium of Princeton, Rutgers, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, is funded by the National Science Foundation and hosts workshops in Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science throughout the year. Both Genie and Kenny presented their research in discrete mathematics at this prestigious workshop. Kenny Proffitt also presented his work at the 32^nd Annual Southeast International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing held in February 2001 at Louisiana State University. Genie Jackson presented her work at the North Carolina Mini-Conference on Combinatorics and Graph Theory at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Troy Bowman, Kevin Lynch and Laura Moneyhan also attended this meeting.

Scott Lavoie, Kevin Lynch and Genie Jackson were chosen to participate in the 7th CRSC Industrial Mathematics Modeling Workshop for Graduate Students to be held at the Center for Research in Scientific Computation at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. The students will work on projects presented by scientists from Boeing, Duke University Medical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Michelin North America.

New Students:

Troy Bowman (B.S. `99, ETSU). Troy is interested in statistics and actuarial science.
Jiansheng Cao (B.S. `86, Shangdon Univ. of Technology, M.S. `89, Xian Jiaotong University). Jiansheng’s work is in computational mathematics. He is currently working under Dr. Hong.
Susan Hosler (B.S. `00, ETSU). Susan enjoys statistics and will be working with Drs. Price and Seier.
Scott LaVoie (B.S. `00, ETSU). Scott’s interests are applied and computational mathematics.
Kevin Lynch (B.S. `99, Tenn.Tech. Univ.). Mathematics education is Kevin’s area of expertise.
Melody Rush (B.S. `98, Bethel College). Melody is interested in applied mathematics.
Mark Taylor (B.S. `00, ETSU). Mark enjoys all areas of mathematics and plans to teach.
Qingbo Xue (B.S. `86, Zhongshan Univ.). Qingbo enjoys computational mathematics, graph theory and mathematics education.

Returning Students:

Lesley Baker - Lesley will graduate in the summer of 2001. She has accepted a job offer from the Social Security Administration’s main office in Baltimore, Md., where she will work as an actuary. Lesley wrote her thesis under the direction of Dr. Hong in actuarial science.
Donny Belcher - Donny graduated in May 2001. He wrote his thesis under the direction of Dr. Janice Huang.
Renee Guant - Renee graduated in December 2000. She is currently working as an actuary at the Social Security Administration’s main office in Baltimore, Md.
Genie Jackson - Genie Jackson is writing her thesis in graph theory under the direction of Dr. Teresa Haynes. She also welcomed the birth of a daughter in March.
Russell Mawk - Russell is writing his thesis in actuarial science under the direction of Dr. Hong and will graduate the summer of 2001.
Kenny Proffitt - Kenny will be completing his thesis in graph theory under the direction of Dr. Teresa Haynes.
Andrew Sell - Andrew wrote his thesis in actuarial mathematics under the direction of Dr. Hong. He accepted a job offer from Merastar Insurance Company in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Recent graduates:

Rob Dautermann is employed as a statistician for a firm in Ohio.
Suzanne Glass welcomed the birth of the family’s second child.
Shannon Gosnell is a mathematics instructor at Northeast State Technical Community College in Blountville.
Joby Kauffman will attend Emory University to study Biostatistics.

KAPPA MU EPSILON MATHEMATICS

HONOR SOCIETY

Dr. Lyndell Kerley-Faculty Sponsor

Kappa Mu Epsilon (KME) Mathematics Honor Society initiated the following members during spring 2000:

Alan Browder, Aaron Gourley, Lora Hart, Jaime Hise, Jamie Howard, David Hulse, Ronea James, Scot LaVoie, Jason Lewis, David McAllister, and Re’el Street.

During spring 2001, the following members were initiated:

David Atkins, Akiko Marsh, Morgan Montagnari, Denise Plante, Shane Ratledge, Amanda Rodefer, Lalita Roy, Katherine Williams.

The 2000-2001 officers are:

Susan Hosler – President

Jason Lewis –Vice President

Scott LaVoie—Secretary

Jamie Howard –Treasurer

EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY

STUDENT CHAPTER OF THE

MATHEMATICS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

Dr. Robert Price - Faculty Sponsor

Several members of the chapter attended the Mathematical Association of America meeting in March 2001 in Montgomery, Alabama. Student president Jason Lewis, Michael Polson and Clayton Clark accompanied Dr. Kerley.

ACTUARIAL PROGRAM

Drs. Don Hong and Jay Boland – Directors

Congratulations to our recent actuarial graduate students with a master’s degree in mathematics: Lesley Baker, Renee Ferguson, Rusty Mauk, and Andrew Sell. Renee currently works as an actuary at Social Security Administration in Baltimore, Md. Leslie will join Renee to work as an actuary for Social Security Administration in July 2001. Rusty will join Andrew to work together as actuaries at Merastar Insurance Company in Chattanooga.

Since the actuarial math program began in the fall of 1997, the exam center has been approved as a permanent one at ETSU by the Society of Actuaries May 1998. Six students have passed nine actuarial exams, and five students received actuarial job offers with an average annual salary of $38,000.

The Actuarial Student Association (ASA) at ETSU has activities including actuarial career seminars, group studies for actuarial exams, etc. The current president of ASA-ETSU is Lesley Baker, lesleyreece@chartertn.net.

SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION

The Jeff Hightower Scholarship, which was endowed by his widow Mrs. Tammy Hubbard, was awarded to Richard Donaldson of Jonesborough, Tenn., for 2001-2002. Jeff Hightower was our outstanding senior mathematics major in 1986 and completed an M.S. at Clemson University prior to his employment at Lockheed in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Mrs. Tammy Hubbard, outstanding senior mathematics major of 1985, established the scholarship in memory of her husband. She is associated with Lockheed Martin Energy Systems in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and was formerly with Beecham Laboratories in Bristol, Tenn., in a statistical capacity.

The Faber-Neal Scholarship, which is designed to cover annual tuition costs to sophomore mathematics majors, was awarded to Re’el Street of Erwin, Tenn., Jason Robert Lewis of Johnson City, Tenn., and Jamie Marie Howard of Johnson City, Tenn., for 2000-2001 and to Jennifer Salyers of Blountville, Tenn., Katherine Williams of Bristol, Tenn., and Hillary Scheffler of Chuckey, Tenn., for 2001-2002. One week before his death (1995), Dr. Larry Neal, a distinguished professor of mathematics at East Tennessee State University, established a scholarship fund, the Faber-Neal Scholarship, to honor his very dear friend, Joe Faber, professor emeritus of East Tennessee State University.

The Wilson‑Hartsell Scholarship, which serves to help aspiring mathematics teachers, was awarded to Joshua Deyton of Bristol, Tenn., for 2000-2001 and to Rachel Cartwright of Kingsport, Tenn., for 2001-2002. The Wilson‑Hartsell Scholarship was initiated in 1987 and named in honor of two former department chairs with long‑term commitments to ETSU: Mr. Charles Wilson (retired, '86) and Dr. Lester Hartsell (retired, '87).

The Depew Scholarship, which is designed to be awarded to students planning to major in mathematics, was awarded to Lora Lee Hart of Johnson City, Tenn., and Elizabeth Hyder for 2000-2001 and to Jamie Howard of Johnson City, Tenn., and Tim Shelton of Church Hill, Tenn., for 2001-2002. Mrs. Rex Depew (Sara Margaret) established an endowed scholarship, the Depew Scholarship, in memory of her husband, who graduated from ETSU in 1940, having majored in mathematics. Dr. Depew (Ph.D. in mathematics at Vanderbilt University in 1963) served with the Air Force, taught at both Everett High School and North Alabama State University, and provided mathematics support and analysis for NASA Space Systems as an employee at the IBM Corporation. Mrs. Margaret Depew continues to reside in Maryville.

The Edward Stanley Scholarship is awarded to promising mathematics students planning to major in mathematics. Its recipients were Austin Howey of Kingsport, Tenn., Dayla Pike of Johnson City, Tenn., and Luke Byerly of Knoxville, Tenn., for 2000-2001 and to Re’el Street of Erwin, Tenn., for 2001-2002. The Edward Stanley Scholarship was endowed in 1986 from a generous gift from a former student, Dr. Ed Stanley, who completed an illustrious career teaching mathematics at Clemson University.

The Charles Wilkey Scholarship was awarded to Lora Lee Hart of Johnson City, Tenn., Jason Robert Lewis of Johnson City, Tenn., Dayla Pike of Johnson City, Tenn., Joshua Deyton of Bristol, Tenn., and Aaron Gourley of Jonesborough, Tenn., for 2001-2002. Mr. Wilkey formerly taught math in California, lived in Michigan, and retired to Tennessee. Mr. Wilkey endowed the scholarship in 2000.

GRANTS

Dr. Janice Huang received an Instructional Development Grant of $1,586 from ETSU to purchase graphic calculators and overhead for math 4417/5517 and a Presidential Grant-In-Aid to attend an NSF grant-writing workshop.

Dr. Huang has a non-instructional assignment for the 2001-2002 years. She will teach and do research in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Buea in Cameroon, Africa. She will be accompanied by her husband, Dr. Thomas Huang, of the Department of Chemistry, ETSU. Tom has a Fulbright Scholarship and a non-instructional assignment from ETSU as well. Janice plans to study the differences between programs for preparing secondary mathematics teachers in Cameroon with those in the United States, specifically at ETSU. Cameroon has a long history of educating its citizens. Among the countries in Africa, it has probably done as much if not more than any other, over the last 30 years, to ensure that it has an educated citizenry.

Dr. Lyndell Kerley received an Instructional Development Grant of $1,500 from ETSU to secure software for the Mathematical Laboratory.

Dr. Edith Seier received a Presidential Grant-In-Aid to attend a short course on “Generalizing Estimating Equations” in Alexandria, Virginia.

Drs. Edith Seier, Janice Huang, and Debra Knisley: Sonya Kovalevsky Days Grant, Association for Women in Math, $2000.

Graduate students Genie Jackson, Kevin Lynch, and Scott LaVoie - Travel Grant to NC State Mathematics Modeling Workshop.

Drs. Anant Godbole, Janice Huang, Debra Knisley - American Association of State Colleges and Universities and NSF to improve math training of elementary education students, $4000.

Dr. Anant Godbole

Research Experiences for Undergraduates(REU), $80,000, National Science Foundation(NSF).
Research Experiences for Teachers, $25,000 NSF
ETSU Instructional Development Grant (IDG) - $1500 to buy manipulative materials for MATH 1055

Dr. Robert Gardner and Dr. Gary Henson, Department of Astronomy and Physics, ETSU Instructional Development Grant (IDG) - $4600 for installation of digital audio and video equipment for the university’s planetarium.

Dr. Debra Knisley, Presidential Grant-In-Aid - $800 to attend an NSF-sponsored workshop titled “Merging Mathematical Modeling into Secondary Teaching Methods” held at the University of Arizona.

FACULTY PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Dr. Anant Godbole has the following papers accepted or published.

On the size of a random sphere of influence graph, Advances in Applied Probability, 31, 596--609 (with Tae Chalker, Pawel Hitczenko, Josh Radcliff and Otto Ruehr).
Near-matches and successions in random permutations, Congressus Numerantium 135, 159—170, (with Papa Sissokho).
Random sphere of influence graphs in the L^p metrics, Congressus Numerantium 134, 175--188, (with Spencer Slade).
Turán Number, Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Supplemental Volume II, p. 471, M. Hazewinkel, ed., Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht.
The Michigan Tech REU Program in Probability, Proceedings of the Conference on Summer Undergraduate Mathematics Programs, Joe Gallian, ed., American Mathematical Society, pp. 93--104.
A statistical perspective on inquiry, Of Significance 1, 41--46, 1999 (with Peg Balachowski).
Contributions to the problem of Zarankiewicz, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol. 95, pp 197-208, 2001 (with Heidi Graziano).

Anant served as Editor of the Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, Associate Editor of Interstat, and Associate Editor of Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability. He refereed several papers, served as Math Reviews reviewer, and was the Math/CS facilitator at a grant-writing workshop in July 2000.

Dr. Godbole gave talks at the AMS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2000; the Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Alma, Michigan, February 2000; the 31st International Combinatorics Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, March 2000; the AMS Sectional Meeting, Notre Dame, Indiana, April 2000; the MAA Sectional Meeting, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, May 2000; the SIAM Discrete Mathematics Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2000; the Discrete Mathematics Conference, Greensboro, North Carolina, November 2000; the Annual AMS Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2001; and 32^nd Southeastern Combinatorics conference, Baton Rouge, Feb. 2001.

Dr. Teresa Haynes has the following papers accepted or published.

The codomatic number of cubic graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, (2000) 139-148 (with J. Dunbar and M. Henning).
A generalization of domination critical graphs, Utilitas Mathematica, (2000) 129-144 (with B. Phillips and P. Slater).
Stratified claw domination in prisms, Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, (2000) 81-96 (with G. Chartrand, M. Henning, and P. Zhang).
Stable and unstable graphs with total irredundance number zero, to appear in Ars Combinatoria, (with M. Henning, S.. Hedetniemi, and D. Knisley).
A characterization of domination 4-critical graphs of diameter 5, to appear in Australasian Journal of Mathematics, (with M. Henning).
Total irredundance in graphs, to appear in Discrete Mathematics, (with O. Favaron, S. Hedetniemi, M. Henning, and D. Knisley).
Domination and independence subdivision numbers of graphs, to appear in Discussiones Mathematicae: Graph Theory, (with S. Hedetniemi and S. Hedetniemi).
Total domination edge critical graphs with minimum diameter, to appear in Ars Combinatoria, (with L. van der Merwe and C. Mynhardt).
Trees with equal domination and tree-free domination numbers, to appear in Discrete Mathematics, (with M. Henning).
Excellent trees, to appear in Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications,(with G. Fricke, S. Hedetniemi, S. Hedetniemi, and R. Laskar).
Total domination critical graphs with respect to relative complements, to appear in Ars Combinatoria, (with M. Henning and L. van der Merwe).
A characterization of i-excellent trees, to appear in Discrete Mathematics, (with M. Henning). Total domination subdivision numbers, to appear in Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, (with S. Hedetniemi and L. van der Merwe).

Dr. Haynes was an invited speaker at the Clemson mini-conference in October 2000, and co-author of three lectures presented at the 32^nd Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing held at LSU February 2001.

She was the principal invited speaker at the Third Annual North Carolina Conference on Graph Theory and Computing at Appalachian State University in April 2001, and was an invited speaker at the Cumberland Conference held in Memphis, May 2001.
Dr. Haynes was an invited participant at the NSF- funded DIMACS workshop held at Rutgers in August 2000, where she presented a lecture on "Power domination for electrical power networks.” This was a one-week workshop for researchers to interact with each other and with high school teachers.
She was also an invited speaker at the Cumberland Graph Theory Conference held at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in May 2000, where she gave a talk on "Excellent Trees."

Dr. Don Hong has the following papers published or accepted for publication:

Some new formulations of smoothness conditions and conformality conditions for bivariate splines, (with H‑W. Liu), International Journal of Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 40 (2000), 117‑‑125.
Optimal‑order approximation by mixed three‑directional spline elements, (with R.N. Mohapatra), International Journal of Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 40 (2000), 127‑‑135.
Multiwavelets with multiplicity four, (with Aidi Wu), International Journal of Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 40 (2000), 1153‑‑1169.

Wavelets and Still Image Compression, (with H. Gu and M. Barrett), to appear in Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications.

An algorithm for optimal triangulations on C¹ quartic spline approximation and MatLab implementation, (with Brad Dyer), to appear in Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications.

Dr. Hong has given colloquium talks at Vanderbilt University and Middle Tennessee State University in February 2001, and at the University of North Carolina ‑ Charlotte in January 2001. He has also presented a paper at the International Conference on Trends in Approximation Theory in May 2000, at Nashville.

Dr. Don Hong and Tianxiao He from Illinois Wesleyan University will organize a special session on "Numerical Analysis and Approximation Theory" for the American Mathematical Society’s annual Southeastern Section meeting (Meeting #970) from October 5‑6, 2001, at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.

Dr. Hong has recently served as a proposal reviewer for the program of applied mathematics in the National Science Foundations.

Dr. Jay Boland has the following papers published or accepted for publication:

Mode Graphs (with Joby Kauffman and Panrong Xiao) Congressus Numerantium 142(2000) 161-172
On a Conjecture Concerning the Eccentricity of Graphs (with Panrong Xiao) to appear in the Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.

Dr. Boland spent five weeks working with researchers from the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, on a project involving graph labeling.

Dr. Robert Gardner has the following papers published or accepted for publication:

An application of Bayes’ Theorem to population genetics, (with M. Wooten), in Logic, Probability and Science, N. Shanks and R. Gardner (eds.), Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, volume 71, Rodopi, Amsterdam/Atlanta, 2000.
Commentary on The Exchange Paradox, Finite Additivity, and the Principle of Dominance by Piers Rawling, in Logic, Probability and Science, N. Shanks and R. Gardner (eds.), Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, volume 71, Rodopi, Amsterdam/Atlanta, 2000.
Logic, Probability and Science, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, (edited with N. Shanks), volume 71, Rodopi, Amsterdam/Atlanta, 2000 (ISBN:90-420-1253-6).
Decompositions and packings of digraphs with orientations of 4-cycles, (with C. Huff, and J. Kennedy), Ars Combinatoria, 54 (2000) 269--282.

Dr. Linda J. Kerley, Department of Nursing, and Dr. Lyndell Kerley, Sensitivity, Specificity and Predictive Values: Principles and Application, Mathematics and Computer Education, 34(3) (2000) 308-316.

Drs. Lyndell Kerley and Jeff Knisley had the following article published. Using Data to Motivate the Models Used in Introductory Mathematics Courses, PRIMUS, Vol. XI, No. 2, 2001.

Dr. Janice Huang served as president of Tennessee Mathematics Teachers Association, Fall `99-Spring 2001.

Dr. Edith Seier presented an invited talk “Kurtosis and Test for Normality” at the XVIII Colloquium of the Peruvian Mathematical Society.

Dr. Robert Price had the following article accepted for publication:

Estimating the variance of the Sample Median, co-authored by Douglas G. Bonett. It will appear in the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.

Drs. Edith Seier and Robert Price have instituted a statistical consulting service in the Mathematics Department for ETSU faculty and graduate students for doing research. Graduate students and faculty writing grant proposals are using this service.

MATHEMATICS COMPUTER LABORATORY

Dr. Jeff Knisley, Director

The mathematics department state-of-the-art computer laboratory continues to support the mathematics departments in such courses as calculus, applied math, numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra, and statistics. The lab is configured as a classroom and is located in room 205 of Gilbreath Hall.

Software that is supported include Maple 6, PC-Matlab, and Sigma-Plot for Windows. The department secured additional software that supplements PC-Matlab in the areas of finance, signal processing, image processing, wavelets, and symbolics. If you are on the campus, be sure to visit this state-of-the-art facility