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Annual Report
2002-2004 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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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 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,
Notices of the Amer. Math. Soc. , 51 320-330 (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,
Boca Raton, Florida,
March 8-12, 2004.
Funding source: self and department.
Talk title: William T. Tutte.
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Combinatexas, ,
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas,
10 April 2004.
Funding source: N/A.
Talk title: William T. Tutte.
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Colloquium Talks
- University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 16 August 2004
Title of talk: "William T. Tutte"
- Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 19 August 2004
Title of talk: "William T. Tutte"
- West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 31 October 2002
Title of talk: "Hamiltonian cycles in plane cubic graphs"
Seminar Talks
"Hamiltonian cycles in plane cubic graphs" 18 October 2002
"William T. Tutte" September 2004
Extra-University Activities
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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 worked on developing a Council of faculty members from
around the System to meet and discuss issues with the Chancellor.
This effort succeeded, and in January, 2004, the first meeting of
the System Faculty Council with the Chancellor occurred. The Council
consists of the Faculty Senate Speakers and Presidents from the 9
universities and the Health Sciences Center in the A&M System. The Council
takes no votes on issues, but presents all views held on the various
campuses to the Chancellor. It's first meeting with Chancellor McTeer
occurred on 21 January 2005.
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Coordinator, System Faculty Council (2004- ). In this position, I plan
the meetings of the System Faculty Council.
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 (2002-2004).
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Chair, Faculty Senate Planning Committee (2004- ).
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Chair, Faculty Senate 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.
Chaired organizing committee for Workshop on Plagiarism, held on
April 16, 2002.
Member, President's Academic Integrity Task Force (2003-2004)
Member, Academic Integrity Advisory Committee (2004- )
Member, Library Plagiarism Committee (2003-2004)
Member, Phi Beta Kappa Chapter Formation Committee (2003-2004)
Treasurer, Phi Beta Kappa Chapter (2003- )
Member, Steering Committee for Freshman Convocation (2004- )
Member, Freshman Convocation Program Subcommittee (2004- )
Judge, Student Research Competition (2002- )
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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Grading team problem for High School Mathematics Tournament
(1993- ).
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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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Created graph theory qualifier course (2004)
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Created and graded graph theory qualifiers (May, 2004 and January, 2005)
Reviewing and Refereeing
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Refereed for these journals:
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Computational Optimization & Applications (one time);
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Discrete Applied Mathematics (two times);
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Discrete Mathematics (nine times);
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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (one time);
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Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B (two times);
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SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics (one time).
Computational Optimization & Applications (one time)
Discrete Applied Mathematics (two times);
Discrete Mathematics (six times);
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B (one time)
Reviewed for this review journal:
Math Reviews (three times).
Reviewed this book for publisher:
K. Rosen: "Discrete Mathematics, 5th Edition."
ROBIN: THE FOLLOWING EXTRACTS THE REVIEWING AND REFEREEING FOR 2004:
Reviewing and Refereeing
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Refereed for these journals:
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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (one time);
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Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B (one time);
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SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics (one time).
Reviewed this book for publisher:
K. Rosen: "Discrete Mathematics, 5th Edition."
ROBIN: END REVIEWING AND REFEREEING FOR 2004.
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Regularly Scheduled Classes Taught
- 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 685 (matroid theory), Spring, 2003 (2)
- Math 613 (one section) (second half of course), Summer, 2003 (18)
- Math 302 (one section), Fall, 2003 (25)
- Math 220 (one section) (experimental W-course using CPR), Spring, 2004 (29)
- Math 613 (one section) (qualifier course), Spring, 2004 (22)
- Math 601 (one section), Summer, 2004 (13)
- Math 304 (one section), Summer, 2004 (32)
- Math 220 (one section) (experimental W-course), Fall, 2004 (19)
- Math 302 (one section), Spring, 2005 (14)
- Math 613 (one section) (qualifier course), Spring, 2005 (13)
Graduate Students Supervised
- Alison Marr, Masters, (2003-2004).
- Lavanya Kannan, PhD, (2001- ).
I was instrumental in the award of a three month EGRES Scholarship
for Lavanya Kannan to the Operations Research Department of Eotvos
University in Budapest, Hungary (2004).
- GRADUATE COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE FOR:
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- Hao Yu (Computer Science Department), (2002-2004).
Other teaching-related activities
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Gave presentations to Yasskin's SEE MATH group, (2003- )
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Participant in WALS (Calibrated Peer Review program) Workshop
(Summer, 2003).
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. (Application declined)
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.
None.
Papers Produced
- H. Fleischner, A. M. Hobbs, M. T. Muzheve, and G. Sabidussi,
"Vertex Envelopes of Plane Cubic Graphs,"
28 pages, submitted to J. Graph Theory.
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. Math 220 has been
accepted by committee and forwarded to the Faculty Senate for inclusion
as a W-Course. I have taught Math 220 twice as a W-course, once using
CPR (which was not satisfactory in my opinion) and once using essays
(which worked well).
In addition, I have reformulated Math 613 into a qualifier course,
taught in this form in Spring 2004 and Spring 2005.
Student services
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MENTOR (1980- ).
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AGGIE ALLY (1999- ).
None.
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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 submitted
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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