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Annual Report
2001-2003 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
Contents
Research
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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).
Arthur M. Hobbs, Amy Collins, and Alison Marr,
On relatively-prime graphs,
Congressus Numerantium, (164), 177-182 (2003).
Other Writings
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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,
Amer. Math. 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).
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Arthur M. Hobbs and James Oxley,
William T. Tutte, 1917-2002,
Amer. Math. Soc. Notices , to appear, March 2004.
Research Conference Talks
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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
- 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
Grants
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Applied for a National Security Agency grant in October, 2002, for funding
in summer, 2004, ID # 03G-104. (Rejected)
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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Vice President at Large of the Texas State Conference of AAUP, 2000- .
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Organizer of the System Faculty Council (2002-2004). For several years,
recognizing that the faculty have had no direct connection to the
Chancellor of the A&M System, I and several Speakers of the Faculty
Senate have attempted to develop a Council of faculty members from
around the System to meet and discuss issues with the Chancellor. We
finally succeeded in this effort, and in January, 2004, the first
meeting of the System Faculty Council with the Chancellor occurred.
It also adopted the bylaws that I wrote. The Council consists of
the Faculty Senate Speakers and Presidents from the 9 universities
in the A&M System. The Council takes no votes on issues, but presents
all views held on the various campuses to the Chancellor.
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, Faculty Senate Executive Committee (2002- ).
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Member, Budget Information Committee (1994- ).
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Member, Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee (2002- ).
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Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Legislative Affairs (1999-2001).
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Chair, Subcommittee on Legislative Affairs (2003- ).
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Chair, Faculty Senate Subcommittee on Graduate Council Representatives
(2002-2003).
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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 and August 2003.
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Served on Ad Hoc Committee to rewrite System Policy 12.01 on tenure
(2000-2001).
Chaired organizing committee for Workshop on Plagiarism, held on
April 16, 2002.
Member, President's Academic Integrity Task Force (2003- )
Member, Library Plagiarism Committee (2003- )
Member, Phi Beta Kappa Chapter Formation Committee (2003- )
Treasurer, Phi Beta Kappa Chapter (2003- )
Member, Steering Committee for Freshman Convocation (2004- )
College Activities
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Chair, College of Science Caucus of Faculty Senators (2002-2003).
Departmental Activities
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Member, Subcommittee P (2000-2002), Chair (2001-2002).
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Deciding transfer admissions cases for the department (1990- )
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Team Blinn liason (2001- ).
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Chair, Math 302 textbook committee (2003--2004)
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Creating graph theory qualifier course and exam (2004)
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Served as grader for High School Mathematics Tournament (1993- )
Reviewing and Refereeing
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Refereed for these journals:
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Bulletin of The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (one time);
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Computational Optimization & Applications (one time);
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Discrete Applied Mathematics (four times);
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Discrete Mathematics (nine times);
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Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B (one time).
Refereed for these agencies
Math Reviews (three times).
Regularly Scheduled Classes Taught
- 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)
- Math 220 (one section), Spring, 2003 (30)
- Math 613 (one section) (second half of course), Summer, 2003 (17)
- Math 302 (one section), Fall, 2003 (25)
Graduate Students Supervised
- Alison Marr, Masters, (2003- ).
- Lavanya Kannan, PhD, (2001- ).
- Michael Muzheve, PhD, (2003- ).
- Steven Shauger, PhD, graduated 2001.
- GRADUATE COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE FOR:
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- Hao Yu (Computer Science Department), (2002-2004).
Other teaching-related activities
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Taught sections for the Summer Educational Enrichment in Mathematics
program for junior high school students, Summer, 2003.
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Participant in WALS (Calibrated Peer Review program) Workshop
(Summer, 2003).
Curriculum reform
Recently, the Faculty Senate passed a requirement, to become effective
in the 2006 catalog, that each degree program would require two courses,
normally in the major field of each student, in which one credit hour
is devoted to writing. 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- ).
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Judge in the annual Student Research Week Competition held every
spring (2000- ).