Department of Mathematics
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101
(270) - 745 - 6213
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PhD, University of Florida, 1988 |
Mathemtical Association of America |
Mathematics Professor, WKU, 1989-Present |
Probability Theory |
Binomial Bowling (with Patrick Brown) - Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Volume 18, Number 1, 2006, p. 17-25.
Approximating Pi with the Golden Ratio (with Stacy Linn) - The Mathematics Teacher, Volume 99, Number 7, March 2006, p. 472 - 477.
TI-83 Graphing Calculator Manual for Moore and McCabe's Introduction to the Practice of Statistics - 5th Edition, W.H. Freeman and Company, 2005.
Random Bowling - The Journal of Recreational Mathematics. Vol. 32(2), p. 125-129, 2004.
TI-83 Graphing Calculator Manual for David S. Moore's The Basic Practice of Statistics- 3rd Edition, W.H. Freeman and Company, 2003.
TI-83 Graphing Calculator Manual for Moore, McCabe, Duckworth, and Scove's The Practice of Business Statistics- W.H. Freeman and Company, 2003.
TI-83 Graphing Calculator Manual for Moore and McCabe's Introduction to the Practice of Statistics- 4th Edition, W.H. Freeman and Company, 2002.
Generalized Random Walks with Negative Binomial Stopping Times (with
Mark W. Rogers) - New Zealand Journal of Mathematics, Volume
30, 2001, p. 69 - 79.
Uniform Convergence of the T-Distributions - Missouri Journal
of Mathematical Sciences, Volume 12, Number 3, Fall 2000, p. 193 -
203.
Designing Payoffs for Some Probabilistic Gambling Games (with
Randall J. Swift) - Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences,Volume
11, Number 2, Spring 1999, p. 93 - 102.
TI-83 Graphing Calculator Manual for David S. Moore's The Basic Practice of Statistics, W.H. Freeman and Company, 1999.
Quit When You Are Ahead. The Mathematical Scientist,Vol. 23,
No. 1, 1998, p. 41 - 49.
TI-83 Graphing Calculator Manual for Moore and McCabe's Introduction to the Practice of Statistics- 3rd Edition, W.H. Freeman and Company, 1998.
Generalized stochastic integration on nuclear spaces (with James K. Brooks) Dedicated to Prof. C. Vinti. Atti Sem. Mat. Fis. Univ. Modena 46 (1998), suppl., p. 83-98.
Generalized Stochastic Integral for Real and Hilbert Processes (with James K. Brooks) - Atti. Sem. Mat. Fis. Univ. Modena 46 (1998), No. 1, p. 189-247.
Goodness of Fit Tests For Normality. Mathematica in Education
and Research, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 1996, p. 23 - 30.
Commutation of Variation and Dual Projection. Proceedings of the
American Mathematical Society, Vol. 123, No. 5, May 1995, p.
1591-1595.
Generalized Boundary Problem For One-Dimensional Random Walks.
Mathematica in Education, Vol. 3, No. 4, Fall 1994, p. 11 - 16.
Stopped Random Walks: Areas and Lengths. (with Lon Maynard) The
Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, Vol.9, Spring 1994, Number 10, p. 654 - 661.
The Series n^m x^n and a Pascal-like Triangle. The College
Mathematics Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, 1994, p. 99 - 101.
Determining Sample Sizes for Monte Carlo Integration. The
College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, 1993, p. 254 - 259.
Characterization of O-summable processes. Journal of Theoretical
Probability, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1992, p. 585-596.
A vector measure approach to the optional stochastic integral. (with
James K. Brooks) Ulam Quarterly 1, 1992, p. 18-26.
A characterization of Hilbert stochastic integrals. (with James K.
Brooks)
Atti. Sem. Mat. Fis. Univ. Modena 39, 1991, p. 113-129.
The optional stochastic integral. (with James K. Brooks) Seminar on
Stochastic Processes, 1988, Birkhauser, Boston, 1989, p. 45-54.
Dissertation: Optional Stochastic Integration in Hilbert Space
with Applications to Nuclear Spaces (1988).
"A Generalized Random Walk with a Betting Scenario" - Michael Russell, May 2007.
"Uniform Convergence of Standardized Special Distributions" - Marcia Lami, May 2002."New Theories in Random Walks" - Lina Jichi, December 1998.
"Generalized One-Dimensional Random Walks With Negative Binomial Stopping Times" - Mark Rogers, May 1997.
"A Geometric Betting Challenge" – Frank Polivka, Spring 2008.
"A Goodness of Fit Test on a Queue: Is It a Poisson
Distribution?"
– Catherine Wilson, Spring 2008.
"A Truncated Geometric Distribution" – Quinn Thomas, Fall 2007.
"Using the Math: Satellite Orbits" – James Overton, Fall 2007.
"Mean and Standard Deviation in Random Bowling" - Jennifer Hohn, Spring 2007
"Hypothesis Testing for Exponential Distributions" - Jennifer Jones, Spring 2007 "A One-Sided Boundary Problem for Two-Dimensional Simple Random Walks" - Aziz Bah, Summer 2005"Average Extrema of Geometric Random Walks" - Justin Grieves, Spring 2005
"A Distribution of Geometric Averages" - Jennifer Helm, Fall 2004
"Increasing the Accuracy of Confidence Intervals for Exponential Means" - Mark Mabry, Fall 2004
"Averages and Probabilities for Casino Betting Games" - Leslie Adams, Fall 2004.
"Binomial Bowling" - Patrick Brown, Spring 2004.
"Approximating Pi with the Golden Ratio" - Stacy Patrick, Fall 2003.
Research Start-Up Fund Grant for a new faculty position in probability
and statisics. Funded by Kentucky EPSCoR and WKU (in a 2:1 ratio) for
$25,000, 2007-09.
Statistical Inference on the TI-82/83 - Proposal to develop
calculator programs for the course Math 203. Funded by Kentucky
PRISM-UG Statewide Project for $6020.30, July - Dec. 1996.
Computer Experiments in Probability - Proposal to develop a Computer Lab Workbook to supplement the sequence Probability & Statistics I and II. Funded by Kentucky PRISM-UG Statewide Project for $5672.98, May - Dec. 1994.
1. Faculty Senator: Fall 1990 - Spring 1994, Fall 2004 - Spring 2006.
(a) Faculty Status and Welfare Committee: Fall 1990 - Spring 1993;
Chair, Fall 1992 - Spring 1993.
(b) Chair of Academic Affairs Committee: Fall 1993 - Spring 1994.
(c) Executive Council of the Faculty Senate: Fall 1992 - Spring 1994.
2. University's Academic Quality Committee: Fall 2005 - Spring 2006.
3. University's Undergraduate Curriculum Committee: Fall 2004 - Spring 2005
4. Vice-Chair, Kentucky Section of the Mathematical Association of America: Spring 1995 - Spring 1998.
5. Academic Council: Fall 1994 - Spring 1998.
(a) Rules Committee: Fall 1994 - Spring 1998.
6. Graduate Council: Fall 2001 - Spring 2003.
7. Teacher Education Committee: Fall 2001 - Spring 2003.
8. Department of Mathematics Director of Graduate Studies: Summer 2001 - Summer 2002.
9. Department of Mathematics Graduate Committee: Fall 2000 - Spring 2002, Fall 2004 - Spring 2006.
10. Department of Mathematics Majors Committee:
Chair: Fall 1992 - Spring 1994 and Spring 1998 - Spring 2000. Member:
Fall 2000 - Spring 2002.
11. Department of Mathematics Undergraduate Committee:
Member: Fall 1989 - Spring 1992, Fall 2005 - Present; Chair: Fall 1990
- Spring 1992.
12. Department of Mathematics Undergraduate Service Courses Committee: Chair: Fall 1994 - Spring 1996.
13. Department Headship Search Committee: Fall 1990 - Spring 1991, Fall 2000 - Spring 2001, Fall 2001 - Spring 2002.
14. Ogden College Dean Search Committee: Spring 1993 - Fall 1994.
15. Department of Mathematics SACS Accredidation Committee: Fall 1992.
16. Department of Mathematics Strategic Planning Committee: Spring 1998 - Spring 2002.
17. Faculty Hiring Committee: Fall 1992 - Spring 1994; Fall 1998- Spring 2000, Fall 2001-Spring 2002, Fall 2005 - Present.
18. Symposium Committee: 1990, 1991, 1995, 1997.
19. Academic Advisor: Spring 1991 - Present.
20. Department Awards and Scholarship Committee (Chair): Fall 2003 - Present.
21. Johnson Award Committee: 1991, 1992, 1997, 1998.
22. Bueker Award Committee: 1992, 1995, 1996.
23. Quizmaster/Judge in Annual Junior High Math Bowl: 1990 - 1993, 1995 - 1998.
24. Grand Awards Judge at International Science and Engineering Fair: May, 1992
Technology Throughout The Curriculum - an invited two-hour short course presented at the KY Section MAA meeting at Morehead State University - March 1998.
Uniform Convergence of the T-Distribution - WKU Department of Mathematics Colloquium, March 1998.
Statistics Made Easy with a TI-83 - 17th Annual Mathematics
Symposium, Western Kentucky University, October 1997.
Interchange of Limits for Random Walk Areas. KY Section of MAA,
Western Kentucky University, April 1997.
Hyperbolic Trig Functions and The Real-Life Falling Object Problem.
WKU
Department of Mathematics Colloquium, Feb. 1996.
A Model for a Foraging Animal Exposed to a Toxic Food Supply. KY
Section of MAA, Transylvania University, April 1995.
Statistical Inference on the TI-82. PRISM-UG Conclave, Louisville,
March, 1995.
Writing In Calculus With Challenge Problems. Writing in Mathematics
Workshop, Lexington, November 1994.
The Probability of Getting Ahead. WKU Department of Mathematics
Colloquium, October 1994.
A Poisson Parlour Game. KY Section of MAA, Morehead University,
April 1994.
Computer Experiments in Probability. PRISM-UG Conclave, Louisville,
March, 1994.
Variation of Dual Projection and Optional Stochastic Integration.
Joint Meetings of AMS/MAA, Cincinnati, Jan. 1994.
Computer Experiments in Probability. WKU Mathematics Symposium, Nov.
1993.
On the series n^m x^n. KY Section of MAA, Center College, April 1993.
Computing Average Values with Random Samples. (with Lon Maynard)
Ninth Annual Symposium of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer
Science, Eastern Kentucky University, March 1993.
Stopped Random Walks : Areas and Lengths. History of Mathematics
Conference, Miami University, October 1992.
Simulated Monte Carlo Integration. KY Section of MAA, Bellarmine
College, March 1992.
A closed form expansion of the series n^m x^n. WKU Department of
Mathematics Colloquium, March 1992.
Gambler's Ruin. WKU Department of Mathematics Colloquium, Jan. 1990.
Integration in Nuclear Spaces. WKU Department of Mathematics
Colloquium, Sept. 1989.
Co-author of an invited one-hour lecture Abstract Stochastic
Integration. International Congress of Analysis and Measure Theory,
Capri, Italy, Sept. 1988.