May
2014 to Present
Professor of Mathematics
January
2015 to Present
Chair
of Mathematics Department
August
2011 to August 2013
Program
Director, Division of Undergraduate
Education
Directorate
for Education and Human Resources
National
Science Foundation,
Processed
proposals for the following programs: Math and Science Partnerships
(MSP), STEM
Talent Expansion Program (STEP),
Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM (TUES) and
Scholarships for
STEM (S-STEM). Conducted outreach
on behalf of agency at various conferences
and institutions of higher education. Co-founded the LGBT Employee
Resource
Group and gave inaugural LGBT Pride Month Speech in June 2013. Served
on
inter-agency and intra-agency committees to promote excellence in STEM
undergraduate education.
May 2004 to May 2014
Associate Professor of Mathematics
May
2005 to June 2010
Chair
of Mathematics Department
August
1996 to May 2004
Tenure-track
Assistant Professor of
Mathematics
Taught Numerical Analysis,
Complex Analysis, Real Analysis, Linear Systems, Basic Calculus 1,
Advanced Placement Calculus and Basic Calculus 2 in the mathematics
department.
Co-Created Race, Gender and Justice and co-taught it three
times (Fall
1997, Fall 1999 and Spring 2002) as the Cultural Studies Program's only
freshman colloquium fully-integrated with internet technologies.
August
1994 to August 1996
Minority
Postdoctoral
Taught Numerical Analysis,
Complex Analysis and Calculus courses, created a Mathematical Modeling
course,
in the mathematics department. Investigated a non-standard
finite-difference scheme and published the results.
January
1989 to August 1994
Graduate
Research Assistant
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute,
Advisors:
Donald W. Schwendeman and Julian D.
Cole
Performed computations using
a number of numerical techniques (e.g. finite-differences, iterative
solvers,
sparse matrix solvers and modified multigrid) to solve a nonlinear,
elliptic-hyperbolic, partial differential equation that describes
shock-free
transonic flow.
Graduate:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, 1994
Thesis Title: The Design of Shock-Free
Transonic
Slender Bodies
Advisors: Donald W. Schwendeman and Julian D.
Cole
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
M.Sc., Mathematics, 1992
Undergraduate:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
B.Sc. (in three years), magna cum laude, Mathematics, 1989
"A Mathematical Model of Cinematic Box-Office Dynamics with Geographic Effects." IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2014, pp. 233-257. (with David Edwards and undergraduate student Jacob Ortega-Gingrich).
“Student
Surveys: What Do They Think?” In Teaching
Mathematics with Classroom Voting: With and Without Clickers, edited
by
Kelly Cline and Holly Zullo. Mathematical Association of
“Numerical
Studies of a Nonlinear Heat Equation with Square Root Reaction Term.”
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations,
Vol. 25, No. 3,
(May 2009), pp. 598-609. (with
undergraduate student Karl McMurtry and Ronald E.
Mickens).
"Investigations
of Nonstandard, ‘Mickens-type,' Finite-Difference Schemes for Singular
Boundary
Value Problems in Cylindrical or Spherical Coordinates." Numerical Methods for
Partial Differential Equations, Vol. 19, No. 3, (May 2003), pp.
380-398.
"A
Differential Equation Model of North American Cinematic Box-office
Dynamics." IMA
Journal of
Management Mathematics, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2001, pp. 41-74 (with David
A. Edwards).
"'Race,
Gender and Justice': New Technologies and Student
Empowerment." Works and Days, Vol. 16, No. 1/2, Spring/Fall
1998,
pp. 319-332 (with Donna Maeda and Gabrielle Foreman).
1999.
"Race,
Gender and Justice: Teaching with
Technology at
Occidental College." Newsletter of the American
Studies
Association, Vol. 21, No.3, September 1998, (with Donna Maeda
and Gabrielle
Foreman).
"Teaching
about
Race, Gender and Justice: Bridging the Digital Divide." Diversity
Digest, a publication of the Association of American Colleges and
Universities. Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall 1998 (with Donna Maeda and Gabrielle
Foreman).
"On the Design of Shock-free,
Transonic, Slender Bodies of Revolution." AIAA Paper 98-2686,
presented at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2nd
Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Meeting in
"You
can't get there from here: the impact of
"A
New
Finite-difference Scheme for Singular Differential Equations in
Cylindrical or
Spherical Coordinates." Mathematics Is For
Solving Problems: A Volume in Honor of Julian Cole. Eds. L. Pamela
Cook,
Victor Roytburd and Marshall Tulin. Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics:
"Modeling
large gas release events from 'dry' waste tanks." Proceedings of
the
Eleventh Annual Workshop on Mathematical Problems In Industry (June
12-16 1995).
LA-UR-95-4038. Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1995 (with Mary
Brewster et alia).
"The Design Of Shock-Free
Transonic Slender Bodies." Ph.D. thesis. Rensselaer
Polytechnic
Institute:
“On Exact
and
Numerical Solutions of the One-Dimensional Planar Bratu problem.” Preprint.
“Mathematical Investigations
of the Financial Performance of Movie Sequels.”
With Jacob Ortega-Gingrich.
“A
Survey Of Mathematics
Projects Funded by the CCLI and TUES Programs at the National Science
Foundation, 1998-2013.”
“The Impact of Classroom Voting and Peer Instruction on Teaching and
Learning
in A First Ordinary Differential Equations Course”
“Concept
Maps in Introductory Linear Algebra”
“Squaring
The Circle: One Mathematician’s Perspective on Teaching About
Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation and the Law to First-Year Students.”
“Pedagogical
Innovations in An Upper-Division Undergraduate Applied
Mathematics Course.”
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (Associate Editor)
SIAM Undergraduate Research Online (Associate Editor)
Applied Mathematics Letters
Journal of Engineering Mathematics
Journal of Difference Equations and Applications
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Mathematical and Computer Modelling
Numerical
Analysis:
Nonstandard finite-difference schemes. Also known as Mickens
discretizations, these are finite-difference schemes that use nonlinear
functions and non-local terms in the difference-quotient definition of
the derivative.
The nonlinear behavior can be tailored to produce finite-difference
schemes
that produce solutions with either exact or substantially-reduced
error. Recent
applications have been to quasi-elliptic boundary value problems such
as the
Bratu and Bratu-Gelfand problems.
Applied
Mathematics:
Mathematical Modeling. I am interested in a wide
array of applications of mathematics to real-world problems. Through
the
Mathematical Problems in Industry workshops I have been exposed to, and
participated
in the construction of, many different kinds of industrial mathematical
models.
Recently, I have been looking at a new kind (differential
equation-based as
opposed to probabilistic) model of the dynamics of cinematic box-office.
Computational Fluid Dynamics. My thesis work was in, and I’m
still
interested in pursuing, numerical computations of solutions to the
elliptic-hyperbolic partial differential equation governing transonic
small-disturbance theory in cylindrical coordinates.
Mathematical
Education:
Assessing Student Learning. I am interested in
researching the impact of various pedagogies on how students learn
mathematical
concepts in various contexts. My current interests include the use of
classroom
voting in differential equations, quantifying student learning outcomes
in
first-year Calculus courses and visualizing student understanding of
concepts
in linear algebra.
Measuring Diffusion of
Innovation.
I am interested in researching the factors surrounding how
(pedagogical,
curricular, technological, assessment) innovations do or do not become
widely
spread in higher education. My current interests include researching
the
attitudes of mathematics teachers at institutions of higher education
about
what and who they teach.
Mathematics:
Applied Mathematics courses. I am interested in teaching
courses from a perspective that highlights how math can be used to
solve real
problems in the real world. Favorite topic would include numerical
analysis, mathematical
modeling, differential equations, complex analysis and perturbation
methods.
Cultural
Studies:
Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Law. I am interested, and have significant experience, in teaching about the imbrications of race, gender and sexuality with the concept of (American) citizenship. The specific contexts I look at are immigration law and marriage law historically and currently.
Educational Policy:
High School Graduation. I am interested in learning
about and supporting educational reform efforts which improve the
teaching and
learning of high school algebra. In North East Los Angeles I have long
been
associated with several groups trying to improve passage rates of high
school
algebra (and by extension high school graduation rates) through the
implementation of Bob Moses’ Algebra Project in several elementary,
middle,
high and charter schools.
Teaching with Technology. I am interested in the application of technology to improve pedagogy in several different contexts. The most common application I use is the incorporation of web technology in course organization and content delivery. Another is the deployment of classroom voting through the use of electronic personal response devices (i.e. “clickers”) in all manner of liberal arts courses.
STEM Public Policy. I
am interested in all aspects of the interaction(s) of goverment policy
and practices with STEM (science, technology, education and
mathematics) education. In particular, how funding decisions and
legislative changes will impact STEM education at the K-20 level
(primarily in the United States).
January
2016
"An Investigation Of The Effects On Teaching And Learning Of
Different Pedagogical Practices In An Introductory Ordinary
Differential Equations Course." Joint Mathematics Meetings. Seattle
"Work Hard,
Play Hard: Balancing Careers, Hobbies and Family." National Association
of Mathematicians Panel Discussion. Joint Mathematics Meetings.
Seattle
October
2015
"Cinematics Box-Office Dynamics: An Overview Of A
Particular Application Of Ordinary Differential Equations To The Time
Evolution Of Theatrical Film Grosses." Special Session on
Mathematical/STatistical Modeling and its Applications to Science and
Engineering. American Mathematics Society Sectional Meeting. Fullerton,
August
2015
MAA Mathfest. Washington, DC
June
2015
"My PIC Math Experience: Teaching An Industrial Mathematics Course At A Small, Liberal Arts College." PIC-Math Faculty Workshop, Brigham Young University. Priovo, Utah. Invited Speaker.
August
2014
MAA Mathfest. Portland, OR
June
2014
PIC-Math Faculty Workshop, Brigham Young University. Provo, UT. Invited (Paid) Attendee.
March
2014
"How I Got Here From There, Or, How To Succeed In Academia Without Really Trying." University of California Leadership Experience through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS). Riverside, CA. Keynote Speaker.
January
2014
"Investigating The Effects Of Classroom Voting and Peer
Instruction On Teaching And Learning In An Introductory Ordinary
Differential
Equations Course." Joint Mathematics Meetings. Baltimore,
October
2013
"How To Succeed In Academia While Being Out" (with Benny Chan). oSTEM National
Conference.
June
2013
"A Short Primer on LGBT Equality: How We Got From Here to There." Inaugural
LGBT Pride Month Celebration at the National Science Foundation.
March
2013
9th
Annual National Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law Moot Court
Competition,
January 2013
Nonstandard Finite Discretizations and Nonlinear
Oscillations (In Honor
of Ronald Mickens’ 70th Birthday). Joint Mathematics
Meetings,
October
2012
Out to Innovate.
“A Black,
Gay, NSF Program Officer? Or, How I Got Here From There.”
Invited Talk.
September 2012
“Different
Differences.”
“A Black,
Gay, NSF Program Officer? Or, How I Got Here From There.”
March
2011
7th Annual National Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law Moot Court Competition, UCLA School of Law,
Los Angeles, CA. Judge (early rounds).
October
2010
Out to Innovate Conference. University of
Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA. Invited Panelist.
August
2010
Netroots Nation. Las Vegas,
NV. Scholarship Attendee.
6th Annual National Sexual Orientation Law Moot Court Competition, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA. Judge.
August
2009
Netroots Nation. Pittsburgh,
PA. Scholarship Attendee.
May
2009
Adventures in
Assessment: Using Clickers As Tools For
Formative and Summative Assessment.” Critical Issues in Education:
Teaching Undergraduates
Mathematics. MSRI/University of California,
Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA. Invited Participant.
Equality Summit.
Los Angeles, CA.
Organizing Committee Member and Participant.
“Proposition 8 Debrief.” Creating Change: The National Conference on LGBT Equality, Denver, CO. Invited Panelist.
July
2007
“Mathematic Modelling: Mathematics Is For Solving Problems.” Multicultural Summer Institute, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. Invited Talk.
3rd Annual National Sexual Orientation Law Moot Court Competition, UCLA Law School, Los Angeles, CA. Judge.
AMS-MER Workshop on Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Mobilizing for
the Future. Phoenix, AZ. Funded Participant.
Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Prize Presentation. Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Attendee.
“Election
2004: The Gay Vote, Gay Marriage, and Prospects for Gay Rights
Legislation.”
UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA. Panel discussion. Attendee.
“Different Differences.” Invited Talk. California State University at Long Beach. Faculty colloquium
“The
Role of Race in the Race to the White House.” UCLA School of Law, Los
Angeles,
CA. Panel discussion. Attendee.
June
2003
“Application of
Mickens Finite Differences to Single-Variable
Bratu Problems.” SIAM Annual Meeting, Montreal,
Quebec,
Canada. Contributed Presentation.
January
2003
“Investigations
of nonstandard, ‘Mickens-type,' finite-difference schemes for singular
boundary
value problems in cylindrical or spherical coordinates.” AMS-MAA Joint
Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, MD. Contributed Presentation.
June
2002
Eighteenth
Annual Workshop on Mathematical Problems in Industry, Rensselaer
Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, NY. Group participant.
May
2002
The
Use of Empirical Research in Law and Public Policy: A Roundtable
Discussion. Charles R. Williams
Project on Sexual Orientation
Law, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA. Invited Participant.
April
2002
Exclusion
& Asylum: Immigration, Sexuality, and The Law.
Charles R. Williams Project on Sexual Orientation Law, UCLA School of
Law, Los
Angeles, CA. Attendee.
December
2001
MER
Conference on Reforming Courses Below Calculus. Phoenix,
AZ. Attendee.
July
2001
“Investigations
of a Novel Finite-Difference Scheme for Singular Boundary Value
Problems in
Cylindrical or Spherical Co-ordinates.” SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego,
CA.
Contributed Presentation.
June
2001
Seventeenth
Annual Workshop on Mathematical Problems in Industry, Rensselaer
Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, NY. Group participant.
October
2000
Mt.
Baldy Conference on Applied Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,
Claremont, CA.
Attendee.
July
2000
SIAM
Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Attendee.
June
2000
“Investigations
of non-standard finite difference schemes for singular boundary value
problems
in cylindrical or spherical coordinates.” Summer Research Seminar,
Science
& Math Division, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas.
Invited
Presentation.
Sixteenth
Annual Workshop on Mathematical Problems in Industry, University of
Delaware,
Newark, DE. Group participant.
March
2000
“Something
Borrowed, Something New: Non-standard finite differences and modeling
box-office dynamics.” Graduate Seminar, Mathematical Sciences,
University of
Delaware, Newark, Delaware. Invited Presentation.
February
2000
Race
and the Law at the Turn of the Century.
UCLA
Law Review Symposium, Los Angeles, CA. Attendee.
August
1999
Occidental
College Faculty Teaching Workshop, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.
Co-Organizer.
"Can
'A' Students Be Gay? Scholarly and Practical Resources on Sexual
Orientation
for the Classroom." University of San Diego, San Diego, CA. Invited
Speaker.
June
1999
Fifteenth
Annual Workshop on Mathematical Problems in Industry, University of
Delaware,
Newark, DE. Group participant.
Technology
Session, Black Agenda for the 21st Century: Towards a
Synthesis
of Culture, History and Social Policy, Midwest Consortium for Black
Studies, University of Michigan. Invited Respondent.
Lilly-West Conference on Excellent in College Teaching, Lake Arrowhead,
CA. Attendee.
July
1998
Fourteenth
Annual Workshop on Mathematical Problems in Industry, Troy, New York.
Group
Participant.
June
1998
“Find
the Perfect Text: Class Formats in Upper-Division Undergraduate
Analysis
Courses.” SIAM Annual Meeting, Toronto,
Canada. Contributed Presentation.
“AIAA
98-2686: On The Design of Shock-Free, Transonic, Slender Bodies of
Revolution.”
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2nd Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Meeting,
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Invited Paper.
May
1998
SIAM
Northeast Regional Mathematics in Industry Workshop, Worcester
Polytechnic
Institute, Worcester, MA. Attendee.
March
1998
“Uses
of Mailing Lists and Web-based Message Boards in Teaching and
Learning.”
Lilly-West Conference on Excellent in College Teaching, Lake Arrowhead,
CA.
Contributed Presentation.
November
1997
Critical
Race Theory: From Theory To Practice.
Yale Law
School, New Haven, CT. Attendee.
October
1997
“Queer
Immigration Issues.” National Lesbian and Gay Law Association Lavender
Law
Conference, Los Angeles, CA. Panelist.
August
1997
Occidental
College Faculty Teaching Workshop, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.
Participant.
July
1997
“Pedagogical Innovations in
Undergraduate Numerical Analysis Instruction.”
SIAM
Annual Meeting, Palo Alto, CA. Poster Session.
June
1997
Thirteenth
Annual Workshop on Mathematical Problems in Industry, Rensselaer
Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, NY. Group participant.
March
1997
Lilly-West
Conference on Excellent in College Teaching, Lake Arrowhead, CA.
Attendee.
June
1996
Twelfth
Annual Workshop on Mathematical Problems in Industry, Rensselaer
Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, NY. Group participant.
March
1996
“Queer
legal resources on the Internet.” Bowers vs. Hardwick at 10.
John
Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL Invited Presentation.
October
1995
SIAM
Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC. Contributed Presentation.
Asymptotic
and Computational Methods for Applications: A Conference in Honor of
Julian D.
Cole, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Invited Presentation
(proceedings published).
June
1995
Eleventh
Annual Workshop on Mathematical Problems in Industry, Albuquerque, NM
(proceedings
published). Invited Participant.
July
1994
SIAM
Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. Contributed Presentation.
June
1993
Ninth
Annual Workshop on Mathematical Problems in Industry, Rensselaer
Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, NY. Group Participant.
Computer
Skills:
Extensive
classroom and/or research implementation of a diverse set of numerical
methods,
including finite difference methods, iterative solvers, finite element
techniques,
and multigrid methods, among others.
Experienced
user of Matlab for teaching and research.
Experienced use of Mathematica for research.
Extensive
knowledge of Fortran.
Good
working knowledge of HTML and LaTex.
Familiarity
with Javascript, C, Perl, Pascal, APL and TruBasic.
Extensive
knowledge of UNIX operating systems.
Systems
manager for abacus.oxy.edu, a Sun Sparcstation 20 with 112MB of RAM and
2GB of
disk space, since September 1994
Good
working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, FrontPage
Languages:
Acceptable
French reading comprehension and writing skills.
Limited
French oral communication skills.
Limited
Spanish oral, written and reading skills.
Member, Education Committee, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (January 2014-January 2017)
Member, Diversity Committee, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (January 2015-January 2018)
Member, Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics, Mathematics Association of America (January 2015-2018)
Member, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, November 2015
Member, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences Grant Review Panel, November 2015
Member, U.S. Department of Education Grant Review Panel (First in the World), July 2015
Member, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, December 2014
Member, U.S. Department of Education Grant Review Panel (First in the World), July 2014
Member, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, April 2014
Member, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, March 2014
Member, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences Grant Review Panel, December 2013
Member, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, September 2013
Chair,
Faculty Affirmative Action Committee, Spring 2015 to Spring 2016
Member,
NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, December
2010
Member,
NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, August 2010
Member,
NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, June 2010
Member,
NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, March 2010
Member, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, November 2009
Member,
Academic Planning Committee, 2008-2009, 2014-2016
Member, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, March 2008
Member, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, November 2007
Member, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, November 2006
Member,
NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, March 2006
Member, Faculty Affirmative Action Committee, Fall 2005 to Spring 2006,
2008-2010, Fall 2013 to Spring 2016
Member, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, July 2005
Member, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, July 2004
Member, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Grant Review Panel, July 2003
Member,
Faculty Admissions Committee, Fall 2000 to Spring 2002
Member, Search Committee for College Librarian, Spring 2001 and Fall
2001
Member, Faculty Library Information Services Committee, Fall 1998 to
Spring
2000
Member,
President's Advisory Commission on Multicultural Mission, Spring 2000
Founding Member, Faculty Committee on Occidental's Multicultural Mission
Resident Faculty Associate, Fall 1996 to Spring 2000, Haines Hall
Member,
Vice-President's Internet Task Force, Spring 1995 to present
Co-organizer,
Annual Black Faculty-Student Social, Fall 1994 and Fall 1995
Faculty
Advisor, Mathematics Association of America Student Chapter, Fall 1994
to
present
Member, Board of Directors, Immigration Equality,
November 2008 to
present
Member, Board of Directors, Center for Health
Justice,
January 2007 to Present
Member, Let California Ring Executive
Committee,
September 2009 to present
President, Board of
Directors, Barbara Jordan/ Bayard Rustin Coalition,
July 2007 to
July 2011
Chair, Board of Directors, Center for
Health
Justice,
July 2007 to January 2010
Judge, Annual National
Sexual Orientation Law Moot Court Competition, UCLA Law School, 2007,
2008,
2009, 2011, 2013
Member, Board of Directors, Los Angeles
Tennis Association,
February 2007 to November 2007
Member, Board of Directors, Being Alive
Los
Angeles,
June 2002 to July 2006
Member, Board of Directors, Equality
California, July 2002
to December 2004
Member, Board of Directors, International Gay and Lesbian
Human Rights Commission,
September 1996 to May 2002
Member, Board of
Directors, Immigration
Equality, (the Los Angeles
area chapter of the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force), May
1994 to
May 2002
Member,
Board of Directors, PlanetOut
Corporation, April 1996 to
August 1999
Member, Steering
Committee, Los Angeles Freedom
To Marry Coalition, September 1995
to September 2000
Vice-President,
Board of Directors, Overnight Productions, 1995 to 2011
Co-founder,
Digital Queers Los Angeles, 1995
Member, Board of
Directors, Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club (Albany, NY), 1993 to 1994
Senior Reporter
and Editorial Columnist, The Rensselaer Polytechnic, Fall 1991
to Fall
1993
Creator, Queer
Resources Directory, the first widely used source of
gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender and AIDS/HIV information on the
Internet,
Spring 1991
Successful
Co-plaintiff, ACLU et al. vs. Reno (521 U.S. 844), United
States Supreme
Court case which struck down the Communications Decency Act of 1996 as
unconstitutional
abridgement of free speech.
Manager,
at http://lists.qrd.org of numerous Internet mailing lists such as
Manager,
at majordomo@cecs.pdx.edu of NA-TEACH, on the teaching of Numerical
Analysis
Postgraduate:
Mellon
Technology Fellow, Summer 1996, 1999 and 2001
Mellon Technology Faculty Development Grant, Spring 1999
Minority
Scholar-In-Residence Postdoctoral Fellowship, Occidental College, 1994
to 1996
Graduate:
Certificate
of Leadership, Archer Center for Student Leadership Development,
May
1993
Undergraduate:
Honorable
Mention, Mathematical Contest In Modeling, March 1989
Dean's List, all undergraduate semesters, 1986 to 1989
Other:
National
Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals’
LGBT
Educator of the Year Award, 2011
1st
Annual Community Service Award, Digital Queers, 1995
Chess:
United
States Chess Federation Senior Master, currently rated 2419, which
means that I
am ranked in the Top 250 of all rated chess players in the USA (Top 0.01 percent)
World
Chess Federation FIDE Master, currently rated 2320
1985
New York Open Champion (Under-2200)
1985
World Open Champion (Under-2400)
4-time
Barbados National Junior Champion, 1982-86
3-time
Barbados National Champion, 1983-86
Invited
to and participated in:
1987
United States Junior Invitational Championship (Amherst, MA)
1986
Oakham International Invitational Biennial (Oakham, England)
1986
British National Championship (Torquay, England)
1985
World Junior Championship (Helsinki, Finland)
Other:
Avid
tennis, scrabble and boggle player
Teaching
Experience
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Fall 1994 |
Math 370 (Numerical Analysis) |
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Spring 1995 |
Math 124 (Calculus 2 Experienced) |
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Fall 1995 |
Math 496 (Mathematical Modeling) |
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Spring 1996 |
Math 312 (Complex Analysis) |
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Math 120 (Calculus 2) |
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Fall 1996 |
Math 110 (Calculus 1) |
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Math 310 (Real Analysis) |
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Spring 1997 |
Math 120 (Calculus 2) |
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Math 370 (Numerical Analysis) |
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Fall 1997 |
CSP 2 (Race, Gender and Justice) |
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Spring 1998 |
Math 120 (Calculus 2) |
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Math 312 (Complex Analysis) |
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Fall 1998 |
Math 110 (Calculus 1) |
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Math 370 (Numerical Analysis) |
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Spring 1999 |
Math 120 (Calculus 2) |
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Summer 1999 |
Multicultural Summer Institute (American Culture) |
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Fall 1999 |
CSP 1 (Race, Gender and Justice) |
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Spring 2000 |
(Sabbatical Leave) |
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Fall 2000 |
Math 110 (Calculus 1) |
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Math 370 (Numerical Analysis) |
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Spring 2001 |
Math 120 (Calculus 2) |
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Math 214 (Linear Systems) |
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Fall 2001 |
Math 118 (Advanced Placement Calculus) |
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Math 312 (Complex Analysis) |
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Spring 2002 |
CSP 52 (Race, Gender and Justice) |
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Fall 2002 |
Math 118 (Advanced Placement Calculus) |
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Math 370 (Numerical Analysis) |
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Spring 2003 |
Math 120 (Calculus 2) |
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Summer 2003 |
Multicultural Summer Institute (American Studies 111) |
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Fall 2003 |
Math 118 (Advanced Placement Calculus) |
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Math 214 (Linear Systems) |
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Spring 2004 |
Math 224 (Multivariable Calculus) |
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Math 300 (Junior Colloquium) |
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Math 312 (Complex Analysis) |
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Fall 2004 |
Math 105 (Math for Liberal Arts Majors) |
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Math 370 (Numerical Analysis) |
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Spring 2005 |
Math 105 (Math for Liberal Arts Majors) |
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Math 214 (Linear Systems) |
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Math 341 (Differential Equations) |
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Summer 2005 |
Multicultural Summer Institute (American Studies 111) |
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Fall 2005 |
Math 212 (Multivariable Calculus) |
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Math 114 (Basic Calculus (Experienced)) |
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Spring 2006 |
Math 212 (Multivariable Calculus) |
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Math 214 (Linear Systems) |
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Fall 2006 |
(Sabbatical leave) |
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Spring 2007 |
Math 214 (Linear Systems) |
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Math 201 (Math, Education & Access to Power) |
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Fall 2007 |
Math110 (Basic Calculus 1) |
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Math 400 (Senior Colloquium) |
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Spring 2008 |
Math 214 (Linear Systems) |
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Math 201 (Math, Education & Access To Power) |
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Fall 2008 |
Math 341 (Differential Equations) |
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Math 396 (Mathematical modeling) |
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Spring 2009 |
Math 201 (Math, Education & Access To Power) |
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Math 300 (Junior Colloquium) |
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Math 395 (Special Topic: Applied Mathematics) |
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Math 370 (Numerical Analysis) |
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Fall 2009 |
Math 341 (Differential Equations) |
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Math 400 (Senior Colloquium) |
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CSP 19 (Gender, Race and Gay Rights in the Obama Era) |
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Spring 2010 |
Math 395 (Special Topic: History of Mathematics) |
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Math 201 (Math, Education & Access To Power) |
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Fall 2010 |
Math 341 (Differential Equations) |
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CSP 19 (LGBT Rights in the Era of Obama and Google) |
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Spring 2011 |
(Sabbatical leave) |
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2011-13 |
On assignment at National Science Foundation |
| Fall 2013 |
Math 341 (Differential Equations) |
| CSP 6 (LGBT Rights in the Internet Era) | |
| Spring 2014 | Math 120 (Calculus 2) |
| Math 312 (Complex Analysis) |
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| Fall 2014 |
Math 212 (Multivariable
Calculus) |
| Math 341 (Differential
Equations) |
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| Spring 2015 |
Math 105 (Math As A Liberal Art) |
| Math 212 (Multvariable Calculus) | |
| Math 396 (Industrial Mathematics) | |
| Fall 2015 | Math 105 (Math As A Liberal Art) |
| Math 340 (Differential Equations) | |
| Math 400 (Senior Colloquium) | |
| Spring 2016 | Math 300 (Junior Colloquium) |
| Math 312 (Complex Analysis) | |
| Math 396 (Industrial Mathematics) |