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1998-2000 Activity Report for Arthur M. Hobbs
Contents
Papers in Print
Papers Accepted
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Paul A. Catlin, Arthur M. Hobbs, and H.-J. Lai,
Graph family operations,
Discrete Mathematics,
(29 pages)
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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 (2001),
379-381.
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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Research Conference Talks
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20 minute special session,
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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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Colloquium Talks
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West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 12 February 1998.
Title of talk: "Four applications of tree packing and covering"
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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"
Funding
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Applied for a National Science Foundation grant (jointly with Marc Ordower)
in September, 2000, for funding in summer, 2001.
Extra-University Activities
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Guest editor, Catlin Memorial issue of Discrete Mathematics,
1996-2000.
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Member, ACGM Mathematics Subcommittee (appointed by The Texas Education
Coordinating Board), 2000- .
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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, 1999-2000.
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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, Texas A&M University AAUP Chapter, 1999-2000.
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President, Texas A&M University AAUP Chapter, 2000-2001.
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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)
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Chaired organizing committee for Faculty Forum on Distance Education,
held on November 17, 2000.
University Activities
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Member, Leadership Committee on University Re-accreditation (2000- )
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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 (1993-1999).
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Member, Budget Information Committee (1994-2001); ex-officio (1999-2001)
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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 (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), No. 3 (pp. 6-7)),
and LII, No. 1 (pp. 7--10)
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 presented the data I used in the previous three articles.
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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 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. Nevertheless, I continued to press for a
direct connection to the faculty. This was implemented in the Faculty
Senate office in Fall, 2000.
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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 Budget Information Committee, a new Senate standing
committee (1993-1994)
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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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Member, Security Awareness Committee (1993-1999)
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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Member, Committee P (1999- )
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Creating team problem for High School Mathematics Tournament Committee
(1993- ).
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Deciding transfer admissions cases for the department and
liason with Texas colleges, (1990- )
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 (one time);
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Discrete Applied Mathematics (two times);
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Discrete Mathematics (four times);
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Journal of Graph Theory (one time);
Refereed for these agencies
NSF (6 individual and 1 panel);
Math Reviews (4 times).
Additional Activities
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MENTOR (1980- ).
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AGGIE ALLY (1999- ).
Regularly Scheduled Classes Taught
- 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)
- 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
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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- Raul Rodriquez-Herrera (Plant Breeding), PhD, 1999.
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- Rodrick O. Moore (Educational Human Resource Development), PhD, 2000.