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2000-2002 Activity Report for Arthur M. Hobbs
Professor
Department of Mathematics
(979) 845-3250
hobbs@math.tamu.edu
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~arthur.hobbs/index.html
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Extra-University Activities
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Guest editor, Catlin Memorial issue of Discrete Mathematics,
1996-2000, resulting in publication in 2001 of Volume 230 of the journal.
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Member, ACGM Mathematics Subcommittee (appointed by The Texas Education
Coordinating Board), 2000-2001.
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Chair of Committee T of the Texas State Conference of AAUP, 1999-2000.
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
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Co-authored (with Allen Martin) article in
TACT Quarterly Bulletin
LII, No. 4 (pp. 6--7), reviewing speech by State Senator Junnell,
Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
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Vice President at Large of the Texas State Conference of AAUP, 2000- .
Reviewing and Refereeing
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Refereed for these journals:
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Ars Combinatoria (two times);
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Bulletin of The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (two times);
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Discrete Applied Mathematics (five times);
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Discrete Mathematics (five times);
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Journal of Graph Theory (one time);
Refereed for these agencies
Math Reviews (3 times).
University Activities
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Member, Leadership Team on University Re-accreditation (2000-2002)
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Member, Quality Enhancement Planning Committee (for Re-accreditation)
(2001-2002)
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Member, Development Leave Committee (1999-2002)
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Member, Rules and Regulations Committee (1999-2002)
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Member, Faculty Senate (2002- ).
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Member, Budget Information Committee (1994- ).
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Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Legislative Affairs (1999-2001).
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Chair, Senate Subcommittee on Field of Study Law (1999-2000).
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Member, Faculty Senate Executive Committee (2002- ).
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Member, Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee (2002- ).
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Chair, Faculty Senate Subcommittee on Graduate Council Representatives
(2002- ).
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Vice President, Texas A&M University AAUP Chapter, 1999-2000.
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President, Texas A&M University AAUP Chapter, 2000-2002.
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
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Completed an distributed to new faculty a booklet
TAMU AAUP Guide for New Faculty (August 2000), revised and
re-released in August 2002.
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Chaired organizing committee for Faculty Forum on Distance Education,
held on November 17, 2000.
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Served on Ad Hoc Committee to rewrite System Policy 12.01 on tenure.
Chaired organizing committee for Workshop on Plagiarism, held on
April 16, 2002.
College Activities
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Chair, Faculty Advisory Council, (1999-2000).
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Chair, College of Science Caucus of Faculty Senators (2002- ).
Departmental Activities
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Member, Subcommittee P (2000-2002), Chair (2001-2002).
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Creating team problem for High School Mathematics Tournament Committee
(1993-2000).
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Deciding transfer admissions cases for the department (1990- )
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Team Blinn liason (2001- ).
Regularly Scheduled Classes Taught
- Math 302 (one section), Spring, 2000
- Math 302 (two sections) (second half of course), Summer, 2000
- Math 485 (History of Mathematics) to one student, Summer, 2000
- Math 685 (Graph Theory) to one student, Summer, 2000
- Math 302 (two sections), Fall, 2000
- Math 302 (one section), Spring 2001
- Math 613 (one section), Summer, 2001
- Math 302 (two sections), Fall, 2001
- Math 685 (Graph Theory) to one student, Fall, 2001
- Math 302 (one section), Spring 2002 (34)
- Math 302 (two sections) (second half of course), Summer, 2002 (22+26)
- Math 220 (one section), Fall, 2002 (33)
- Math 662 (one section - VIGRE course), Fall, 2002 (8)
Graduate Students Supervised
- Lavanya Kannan, PhD, (2001- ).
- Steven Shauger, PhD, graduated 2001.
- GRADUATE COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE FOR:
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- Rodrick O. Moore (Educational Human Resource Development), PhD, 2000.
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- Hao Yu (Computer Science Department), (2002- ).
Hamiltonian Cycles
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Joint work with Visiting Professor Herbert Fleischner, A&M graduate student
Michael Muzheve, and Professor Gert Sabidussi of the University of Montreal.
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PAPERS:
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"Hamiltonian cycles in vertex envelopes of planar graphs," Herbert Fleischner,
Arthur Hobbs, Michael Muzheve, and Gert Sabidussi, Research completed,
paper in draft form
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"Hamiltonian cycles in edge envelopes of planar graphs," Herbert Fleischner,
Arthur Hobbs, Michael Muzheve, and Gert Sabidussi, Research completed,
paper in draft form
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CONTINUING RESEARCH:
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Herbert Fleischner and Arthur Hobbs are now studying uniquely Hamiltonian
graphs.
Uniform Density
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Joint work with Hong-Jian Lai of West Virginia University, and Zhi-Hong Chen
of Butler University.
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PAPERS:
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"Constructing geometrically stable planar trusses," Arthur Hobbs, H.-J. Lai
and L. Xu, in preparation.
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Applied for a National Security Agency grant (jointly with Hong-Jian Lai
of West Virginia University and Zhi-Hong Chen of Butler University,
Indianapolis, IN, in October, 2002, for funding in summer, 2004, ID
# 03G-104.
Graph Families
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Joint work with Hong-Jian Lai of West Virginia University and Mark Ordower,
presently not affiliated with a university.
Fibonacci Graphs
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Joint work with undergraduate student Amy Collins and graduate student
Alison Marr. We are preparing a paper on this topic.
Research Conference Talks
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20 minute sessions :
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Quadrennial Conference on Graph Theory, ,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
June, 2000
Funding source: self and department.
Talk title: Graph families
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Chairing Session
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Quadrennial Conference on Graph Theory, ,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
June, 2000
Funding source: self and department.
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20 minute special session,
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Southeastern Conference on Graph Theory, Combinatorics, and
Computing Science, ,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
February - March, 2001
Funding source: self and department.
Talk title: Graph families
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Colloquium Talks
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Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 21 April 2000.
Title of talk: "Graph family operations"
- Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 12 June 2000.
Title of talk: "Graph families"
- West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 31 October 2002
Title of talk: "Hamiltonian cycles in plane cubic graphs"
Seminar Talk
"Hamiltonian cycles in plane cubic graphs" 18 October 2002
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Paul A. Catlin, Arthur M. Hobbs, and H.-J. Lai,
Graph family operations,
Discrete Mathematics, 230 , 71-98 (2001).
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Arthur M. Hobbs and L. Petingi,
The weighted-element case of strength and fractional arboricity
in matroids,
Congressus Numerantium, (149), 211-222 (2001).
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Arthur M. Hobbs and M. Ordower,
Graph families,
Congressus Numerantium, (152), 201-213 (2001).
None.
Papers Produced
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Arthur M. Hobbs,
Review of Tutte's Graph Theory as I Have Known It and
Chung and Graham's Erdos on Graphs: His Legacy of Unsolved
Problems
American Mathematical Monthly, 108 379-381 (2001).
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Arthur M. Hobbs,
Review of Laubenbacher and Pengelley's Mathematical Expeditions -
Chronicles by the Explorers
American Mathematical Monthly, 109 767-770 (2002).
Curriculum reform
Recently, the Faculty Senate passed a requirement, to become effective
in the 2006 catalog, that each degree program would require two writing
courses in the major field of every student. Normally the departments
will provide these courses as portions of the courses required of their
majors. The courses will be designated as W-Courses. I am working on
reformulating Math 220 as a W-Course.
Student services
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MENTOR (1980- ).
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AGGIE ALLY (1999- ).
None.