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1997-1999 Activity Report for Arthur M. Hobbs
Contents
Papers in Print
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Itshak Borosh, Douglas Hensley, and Arthur M. Hobbs,
Vertex prime graphs and the Jacobsthal Function
Congressus Numerantium,
127 (1997), 193-222.
Papers Submitted
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Arthur M. Hobbs, H.-J. Lai, H. Lai, and G. Weng,
Constructing uniformly dense graphs,
Discrete Mathematics,
(13 pages)
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Paul A. Catlin, Arthur M. Hobbs, and H.-J. Lai,
Graph family operations,
Discrete Mathematics,
(14 pages)
Note: I have devoted September through December, 1999, to revising
"Graph Family Operations;" I consider it ready for publication now.
Research Conference Talks
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Colloquium Talks
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Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, 27 March 1997.
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Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 24 April
1997.
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Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 21 May 1997.
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University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 31 October 1997.
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West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 12 February 1998.
Extra-University Activities
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Guest editor, Catlin Memorial issue of Discrete Mathematics, 1996- .
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Served on NSF Panel on Interdisciplinary Proposals, 1999.
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Chair of Committee T of the Texas State Conference of AAUP, 1999- .
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Vice President, Texas A&M University AAUP Chapter, 1999-2000.
University Activities
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Member, Faculty Senate 1993-1999.
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Member, Faculty Senate Executive Committee (1995-1999)
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Deputy Speaker, Faculty Senate (1998-1999)
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
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Worked with the Speaker (Diane Kaplan) and many other members of
the Senate and Administration to get the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board to modify their requirements for the core
curriculum so that the existing Texas A&M core could be retained with
little change. This included inserting a requirement of calculus
or above into the second list part of the mathematics requirement.
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Published articles in the TACT Bulletin (published as letters
to the editor, TACT Quarterly Bulletin LI, No. 1
(pp. 9-10), No. 2 (pp. 7-9), and No. 3 (pp. 6-7)).
on the core curriculum and field of study requirements passed by the
Texas State Legislature in 1997. The general point of these articles
is that the law will produce a weakening of Texas higher education.
The third installment of this series called for a replacement law
requiring THECB to enable the use of the common course numbering
system to make transfers of students simpler. The fourth in the
series will present the data used in preparing the other papers.
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Member, Faculty Senate Planning Committee (1993-1999), (Chair 1994-1995,
1996-1998, Vice Chair 1995-1996)
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
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Initiated Budget Information Committee, a new Senate standing
committee (1993-1994)
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Initiated and shepherded to passage by the Faculty
Senate a resolution to have a pedestrian underpass built under
Wellborn Road at Old Main (1995). Two underpasses are now in
the TXDOT plans for reconstruction of Wellborn Road. One was
approved by the Board of Regents in the spring of 1999 for
immediate construction.
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Initiated and oversaw
TAMU Faculty Facts project,
involving setting up six University-wide committees, which wrote
answers to questions frequently asked by the general public,
and chairing the committee of chairs of these committees (1996-8).
The Senate approved the first edition in January, 1998, and the
second edition in October, 1998. It has been printed and is being
distributed widely throughout Texas.
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Initiated, shepherded through the Senate, and continued
to press for an e-mail emergency notification system, to send an e-mail
message to every faculty and staff member at the time of an emergency,
so that the entire campus can be quickly informed of dangerous
situations (train wrecks on the railroad through campus, overturned
trucks carrying hazardous chemicals, major storms coming toward the
campus, etc.). The President incorporated this idea into Distribution
A and it is now in place.
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Member, Budget Information Committee (1994-2000); ex-officio (1999-2000)
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Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Legislative Affairs (1999-2000)
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Chair, Subcommittee on Field of Study Law (1999-2000)
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Member, Subcommittee on the Status of Lecturers (1995-1999),
(Co-chair, 1997-1999)
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Member, Subcommittee on Core Curriculum and Field of Study (1998)
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Convener, Faculty Senate Caucus Leaders' Committee (1996-1997)
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Member, Committee to Review System Policy 12.01 in Relation to Proposed
Revised SAFRT Document (policy on academic freedom, responsibility,
and tenure) (1996-1997). This committee completed a rewrite of the
University rules (accepted by President Bowen in summer, 1997) and
recommended changes in the System policy.
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Member, Faculty Advisory Committee on Diversity (1995-1997)
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Member, Steering Committee on Diversity (1997-1998)
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Member, Security Awareness Committee (1993-1999)
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Member, Development Leave Committee (1999-2000)
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Member, Rules and Regulations Committee (1999-2000)
College Activities
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Member, College of Science Curriculum Committee (1998-1999)
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Chair, Faculty Advisory Council, 1999-2000.
Departmental Activities
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Chair, High School Mathematics Tournament Committee (1993-1997)
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Deciding transfer admissions cases for the department and
liason with Texas colleges, (1990- )
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Chair, Transfer Admissions Committee (1992- )
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Health Promotion Programs Liason (1991- )
Reviewing and Refereeing
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Refereed for these journals:
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Discrete Mathematics (two times);
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Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B (one time);
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Journal of Graph Theory (six times);
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Refereed proceedings (one time).
Refereed for these agencies
NSF (6 individual and 1 panel);
Math Reviews (4 times).
Additional Activities
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Co-developer of Texas A\&M University Mathematics Tournament, a
mathematics contest for high school students (1992-8),
worked with contest (1992- ).
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MENTOR (1980- ).
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AGGIE ALLY (1999- ).
Regularly Scheduled Classes Taught
- Math 302 (two sections), Spring, 1997
- Math 302 (two sections) (second half of course), Summer, 1997
- Math 302 (two sections), Fall, 1997
- Math 302 (two sections), Spring, 1998
- Math 685 (advanced graph theory), Spring, 1998
- Math 431, Summer, 1998
- Math 613, Summer, 1998
- Math 302 (two sections), Fall, 1998
- Math 689 (advanced graph theory), Spring, 1999
- Math 302 (two sections) (second half of course), Summer, 1999
- Math 302 (two sections), Fall, 1999
(one student took my section as an honors course, Fall, 1999)
Graduate Students Supervised
- Steven Shauger, PhD, current.
- Mitchell Lawyer, MS, graduated 1999.
- Jeffrey Warren, MS, graduated 1999.
- GRADUATE COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE FOR:
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- Abdi Adan Jama (range science), PhD, 1997.
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- Raul Rodriquez-Herrera (Plant Breeding), PhD, 1999.
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- Rodrick O. Moore (Educational Human Resource Development), current.