KYMAA Visiting Lecturer Program

So, if you're looking for a speaker, consult KYMAA's VLP list to see if anyone in your area has a topic that might fit your needs and give them a call.

Note that being listed does not obligate a speaker to accept invitations, but participants are willing to travel within a reasonable radius of their home institutions. Participants do not require or expect an honorarium from the host institution. However, the host institution is expected to take full responsibility for making all arrangements directly with the speaker, covering all travel expenses, publicizing the event, and acting as a host throughout the speaker's visit.

We are still looking for speakers to include on our list of visiting lecturers; those interested in being visiting lecturers should e-mail their information to either: Dr. Kathryn Lewis of Morehead State University at k.lewis@moreheadstate.edu or Dr. Daylene Zielinski of Bellarmine University at dzielinski@bellarmine.edu. Please send them the following information:

• Name as you wish it to appear,
• Title and Institution,
• Contact Information including: address, phone, email, fax, url,
• A short professional bio that gives some idea of your expertise; please limit your bio to a maximum of 150 words,
• Titles of lectures you are interested in giving; please indicate which talks are accessible to high school students.

KYMAA VLP Speakers

• K. Renee Fister
  • Optimal Control applied to Cancer Models (college junior & up)
  • Optimal Control of Chemotaxis (college senior & up)

• Bruce Kessler
  • What Dimension Is This? (high school & up)
  • Edge Detection Math (high school & up)
  • 'Pick'-ing on Area (high school & up)
  • Mathematical Eyeglasses: Crime-Fighting, Spy Satellites, and Wavelets (high school & up)
  • "A Mathematical Glimpse of the Universe" (high school & up)
  • "Keeping Algebra and Trigonometry 'On Target'" (high school & up)
  • "A 'Sound' Approach to Frequencies" (high school & up)
  • Two Elementary Techniques in Edge Detection (college)
  • 'Dual'-ing Orthogonalities (college)
  • Edge Detection Using Wavelet Tensor Products (college)
  • Tensor Product Bases (college)
  • Common Approximation Techniques and Image Compression (college)
  • Compression, JPEG, and Wavelets (college)

• Alex McAllister
  • Essential Limitations (high school & up)
  • To Infinity and Beyond (high school & up)
  • This Statement is False (high school & up)

• Daylene Zielinski
  • When is a Knot knotted? Tri-coloration of knots (high school & up)

K. Renee Fister

Lectures:

• Optimal Control applied to Cancer Models (college junior & up)
• Optimal Control of Chemotaxis (college senior & up)

Renee works in ordinary and partial differential equations. Specifically, she works on optimal control problems applied to biological and ecological problems. She received her Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and has published 7 research articles and 3 expository articles. Also, Renee has received two grants relating to her research. She has been a member of the MAA for 5 years and was a Project NEXT fellow.

Bruce Kessler

Lectures:

• "What Dimension Is This?" (high school and up)
• "Edge Detection Math" (high school and up)
• " 'Pick'-ing on Area" (high school and up)
• "Mathematical Eyeglasses: Crime-Fighting, Spy Satellites, and Wavelets" (high school and up)
• "A Mathematical Glimpse of the Universe" (high school and up)
• "Keeping Algebra and Trigonometry 'On Target'" (high school and up)
• "A 'Sound' Approach to Frequencies" (high school and up)
• "Two Elementary Techniques in Edge Detection" (college)
• " 'Dual'-ing Orthogonalities" (college)
• "Edge Detection Using Wavelet Tensor Products" (college)
• "Tensor Product Bases" (college)
• "Common Approximation Techniques and Image Compression" (college)
• "Compression, JPEG, and Wavelets" (college)

Alex McAllister

Lectures:

• Essential Limitations: Insolvability (high school & up)
  An exploration of the inherent, essential limitations of mathematics, with a focus on mathematicians' ability to state a general equation specifying the solution of linear, quadratic, cubic, and quartic equations, but the inability to specify such an equation for qunitic equations in light of Abel's Theorem.
• To Infinity and Beyond (high school & up)
  A discussion of of infinite numbers from the Greek perspective up to Cantor's key insights and developments at the end of the nineteenth century.
• This Statement is False (high school & up)
  An exploration of paradoxical statements and their relevance to mathematics, particularly as manifested in Godel's Incompleteness Theorems.

Alex joined the Centre College faculty in 1999 as assistant professor of mathematics. Alex has prior teaching experience as a visiting assistant professor at Dartmouth College and was also a research assistant at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Alex's greatest love in mathematics is mathematical logic and foundations and his specialty in logic is Computability Theory. Alex earned his B.S. from Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.

Daylene Zielinski

Lectures:

• When is a Knot knotted? Tri-coloration of knots (high school & up)

Daylene's research lies in 3-manifold invariants, where she makes use of knots, links, and trivalent graphs. Her B.A. is from the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, MN and her Ph.D. is from the University of Iowa. She has been at Bellarmine University since 1998. Along with teaching regular mathematics courses, Daylene also teaches a Freshman Seminar on Mathematics and Culture each semester focusing on college level reading and writing, critical thinking, and technology.

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