LSUS Math Department News, 2005

Dr. Judith Covington, associate professor of mathematics, has been selected as the editorial panel chair for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics publication, Mathematics Teacher. Read more in the summer edition of LSUS News.
The transformation is complete! Dr. Paul Sisson has left his dual role as chair of the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science and is now Dean of the LSUS College of Sciences. In his place, Dr. Deborah Shepherd has taken over as chair of the math department. (Well, she hasn't "taken over" in the sense of a coup or anything.) Read more in the summer edition of LSUS News.
The math department welcomes Mr. Joseph Andary, who is teaching several sections of statistics for us this academic year. Having many years of experience in statistics and biostatistics, in senior and supervisory roles in the pharmaceutical and health care industries, Mr. Andary brings a wealth of practical knowledge to the classroom. Most recently, he was Vice President and co-owner of Red River Statistics, Inc.
Wanda Moseley has just been elected as State Historian for Kappa Kappa Iota. Wanda was also voted by the LSUS student body as one of the "Top 20 Professors" this year. She recently finished serving two terms on the LSUS Faculty Senate. Read more in the summer edition of LSUS News.
Neu gets first publication! Keith Neu, Instructor in the Department of Mathematics, has had an article accepted for publication in the College Mathematics Journal. The title of the article is "Using Random Tilings to Derive a Fibonacci Congruence" and is co-authored with Dr. Paul Deiermann, at Southeast Missouri State University. Paul taught at LSUS from 1989 until 1996 and Keith was one of his students before Keith went off to grad school in 1993. According to Dr. Deiermann, "The mathematics in the article is all Keith's. My role as co-author was to assist in the writing, checking and streamlining of the proofs, since this was Keith's first full length article." In fact, Keith does have another publication, the solution to a problem posed in the Mathematics Magazine. This was done in 1990 while he was a student at LSUS! That solution is here (Problem 1381) on p. 270). Other mentions of Keith's undergraduate work are here (Problem 10212, p. 579) and here (Problem 470, p. 99). Keith has a Masters Degree from the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Aurel Stan gave an invited talk at the 26th Conference on Quantum Probability and Infinite Dimensional Analysis, February 20-26, 2005 in Levico Terme (Trento), Italy. Dr. Stan's talk was entitled, "Moments and commutators of probability measures" and is joint work with Professors Luigi Accardi from Vito Volterra Center, Rome, Italy, and Hui-Hsiung Kuo, from LSU (Baton Rouge). Dr. Stan also gave a Math Department Colloquium on this same topic. Here, Dr. Stan gives a few remarks about the conference.
An article by Dr. Rick Mabry has the title, "No nontrivial Hamel basis is closed under multiplication" and will appear in the journal Aequationes Mathematicae. Dr. Mabry also presented the results of this paper as part of a Math Department Colloquium.