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Annual Report
2003-2005 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).
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Herbert Fleischner, Arthur M. Hobbs, Michael Muzheve, and Gert Sabidussi,
Hamiltonicity in Vertex Envelopes of Plane Cubic Graphs,
submitted to Discrete Applied Mathematics , (26 pages)
Other Writings
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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"
Seminar Talks
"William T. Tutte" September 2004
Research Projects
- Jointly with Prof. Herbert Fleischner (Visiting Professor),
Michael Muzheve (graduate student), and Gert Sabidussi (u. of Montreal):
Hamiltonian cycles in Edge Envelopes of Planar Graphs, paper nearing
submission.
- Jointly with Prof. Herbert Fleischner (Visiting Professor):
Uniquely Hamiltonian Plane Graphs.
- Jointly with Lavanya Kannan (graduate student) and H.-J. Lai (U. of
West Virginia):
Uniformly dense generalized prisms, paper nearing submission.
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, 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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Member, President's Academic Integrity Task Force (2003-2004)
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Member, Academic Integrity Advisory Committee (2004)
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Member, Library Plagiarism Committee (2003-2004)
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Member, Phi Beta Kappa Chapter Formation Committee (2003-2004)
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Treasurer, Phi Beta Kappa Chapter (2003- )
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Member, Steering Committee for Freshman Convocation (2004- )
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Member, Freshman Convocation Program Subcommittee (2004- )
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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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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 (2004- )
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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 (six times);
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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (two times);
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Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B (two times);
Reviewed for this review journal:
Math Reviews (two times).
Reviewed this book for publisher:
K. Rosen: "Discrete Mathematics, 5th Edition," McGraw-Hill Publ.
Chartrand and Zhang: "Introduction to Discrete Mathematics," Addison-
Wesley Publ.
ROBIN: THE FOLLOWING EXTRACTS THE REVIEWING AND REFEREEING FOR 2005:
Reviewing and Refereeing
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Refereed for these journals:
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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (one time);
Reviewed this book for publisher:
K. Rosen: "Discrete Mathematics, 5th Edition."
Chartrand and Zhang: "Introduction to Discrete Mathematics," Addison-
Wesley Publ.
ROBIN: END REVIEWING AND REFEREEING FOR 2005.
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Regularly Scheduled Classes Taught
- 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)
- Math 601 (one section), Summer, 2005 (17)
- Math 304 (one section), Summer, 2005 (24)
- Math 220W (one section), Fall, 2005 (25)
- Math 613 (one section) (qualifier course), Spring, 2006 (10)
- Math 220W (one section), Spring, 2006 (25)
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).
- MEMBER OF PHD COMMITTEE FOR:
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- Elif Kolotoglu (Department of Industrial Engineering), (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).
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Developed set of essay problems and accompanying instructions
for Math 220W (2005- )
Curriculum reform
Reformulated Math 613 into a qualifier course, taught in this form in
Spring 2004, 2005, and 2006. In 2005-2006, I rewrote the catalog
description of Math 613.
Student services
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MENTOR (1980- ).
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AGGIE ALLY (1999- ).
None.