Presentations
Conference Presentations
``A Mathematical Model for the Future of E-learning'' --- 2012 International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Orlando, Florida, March 22 -- 25, 2012.
``Hot Money vs. Cool Money -- A Probability Model for the Trend of Investment Cash Flow'' --- Keynote Speech at the 2011 International Conference on Financial Management and Economics, Hong Kong, China, July 2 -- 3, 2011.
``A Probability Model for Occurrences of Large Forest Fires'' --- Keynote Speech at the 2011 International Conference on Forestry and Agriculture Engineering and Computer Science, Wuhan, China, May 27 -- 29, 2011.
``Problem Solving, Computer Technology, and Students' Motivation in Learning Mathematics'' --- Keynote Speech at the 2011 International Workshop on Education Technology and Computer Science, Wuhan, China, March 12 -- 13, 2011.
``Solving Linear Systems Embedded in Interior Point Methods'' --- Keynote Speech at the 2010 International Workshop
on Database Technology and Applications, Wuhan, China, November 27 -- 28, 2010.
``A Markov Chain Model for the Trend of E-Learning" --- Keynote Speech, 2010 International Workshop on Education Technology and Computer Science (ETCS 2010), Wuhan, China, March 6--7, 2010.
``West vs. East: What Motivates Kids to Learn Mathematics? '' --- 2009 Global Awareness Society International Conference, Washington DC, May 21 -- 24, 2009.
``Examples of Using Computer Technology in Mathematics Education'' --- Keynote Speech, 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Education and Computer Science (ECS2009), Wuhan, China, March 7--8, 2009.
``Applications of Difference Equation Models in Estimating Sport Records'' --- 2008 Joint International Pre-Olympic
Conference on Sports Science and Sports Engineering, Nanjing, China, August 5--7, 2008.
“On the Applications of Markov Chains in Estimating Advertising Effects”, --- 2008 Global Marketing Conference at Shanghai, Shanghai, China, March 20-23, 2008.
"Statistical Models Based on Difference Equaitons" ---15th International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics on Interdisciplinary Mathematical and Statistical Techniques, Shanghai, China, May 20-23, 2007.
"Use of Case Studies and Student Projects in Mathematics Education" --- Third East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education, Shanghai, China, Aug 7 -- 12, 2005.
"Interesting examples to be used in teaching mathematics" --- 2005 Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan 4 -- 7, 2005.
"Combination of interior point methods and descent direction steps in solving convex programming problems" --- The China-Australia Workshop on Optimization: Theory, Methods and Applications, Shanghai, China, May 21 -- 23, 2004.
"Limited Newton's step algorithm for convex programming problems with linear constraints" --- American Mathematical Society 2003 Spring Eastern Section Meeting, New York, NY, April 12 --- 13, 2003.
"Computing for secondary education mathematics majors" --- 15th Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Orlando, Florida, Oct. 31 --- Nov. 3, 2002 (with Lisa Lister).
"On a hybrid algorithm for solving convex programming problems" --- American Mathematical Society 2002 Spring Eastern Section Meeting, Montreal, Canada, May 3 -- 5, 2002.
"Applications of Mathematics in Sports" --- Plenary Talk, Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware Section of the Mathematical Association of America 2001 Conference, Bloomsburg, April 21, 2001.
"Numerical computing in predicting future sports records" --- Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2000 Annual Conference, Harrisburg, March 23--25, 2000.
“Convergence order and computational cost in solving nonlinear systems'',--- 2000 American Mathematical Society Annual Joint Mathematics Meeting, Washington D.C., Jan. 19 --22, 2000.
“Applications of expected values"--- 1999 Bloomsburg University Education Conference, Oct. 15, 1999.
“Analysis of some mathematical games"--- The 48th Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics, March 18 -- 20,1999.
“Use computers to analyze mathematical games"--- 1998 Bloomsburg University Education Conference, Oct. 16, 1998.
“Globalization procedures for nonlinear systems, unconstrained optimization problems, and complex equations"--- invited lecture at the Seventh International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and Computer Science with Applications, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Aug. 13 -- 17, 1998.
“Computation of periodogram using a Jackknife procedure and its applications"--- at the Fourth International Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications: NMA'98, Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 19 -- 23, 1998.
“A numerical procedure for estimating model parameters'' --- at the American Mathematical Society 933rd Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April 4 --- 6, 1998.
“On difference equations and mathematical models"--- at the 1998 American Mathematical Society Annual Joint Mathematics Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, Jan. 7 --- 10, 1998.
“On the convergence in solving complex equations"--- at the 1997 American Mathematical Society Annual Joint Mathematics Meeting, San Diego, CA, Jan. 8 --- 11, 1997.
“Solving nonlinear systems of equations using least—square Newton iterations"--- at the American Mathematical Society 910th Meeting, New York, NY, April 13 --- 14, 1996.
“On the global convergence of numerical algorithms for unconstrained optimization"--- at the 1996 Joint PACISE/SSHEMA
Conference, March 29 --- 30, 1996.
“Solving nonlinear systems using a global-local procedure"---at the 1995 International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Hamburg, Germany, July 3 --- 7, 1995.
“Some computational aspects of interior point methods for linear, quadratic, and convex programmings"--- at the 1995 International Conference on Optimization, Techniques and Applications, Chengdu, China June 12 --- 15, 1995.
“On detecting the periodicities of the sunspots number"--- at the 1995 Annual Conference of Global Awareness Society International(GASI), Shanghai, China, May 19 --- 21, 1995.
“Enclosing a root of a continuous function using high order inverse interpolations"--- at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, San Diego, CA, July 25 --- 29, 1994.
“On the convergence order of Brent's algorithm" --- at the 1994 AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, Jan. 12 --- 15, 1994.
“Solving linear systems involved in constrained optimization"--- at the Third SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra in Signals, Systems, and Control, Seattle, WA, Aug. 16 --- 19, 1993.
“Enclosing a simple root of a continuous function"--- at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, July 12 --- 16, 1993.
Other Presentations
"Mappings and Mathematical Games", Danville Middle School, April 12, 2011.
“Folding and Mathematics" --- to students at the Danville Elementary School, Pennsylvania, Spring 2007.
“Use Games as Examples in Teaching Mathematics"--- at the Bloomsburg University TALE Seminar, April 2006.
“Numerical algorithms for solving nonlinear systems'' --- invited presentation at the Saint Joseph's University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium Series, Philadelphia, Nov. 18, 1999.
"On the educational computer software MATHEMATICA" -- to the coaches of participating teams of the 1999 BU Mathematics Contest, Nov. 17, 1999.
"Application of first order differences in solving systems of nonlinear equations" -- at the Bloomsburg University Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics Departmental Seminar Series, Sept. 28, 1999.
"About the game 24 points" -- to the high school students participating in the 1998 BU Mathematics Contest, Nov. 4, 1998.
"A decision making strategy for the game PIG" -- at the Bloomsburg University TALE Seminar, April 23, 1998.
"The game 24 points" -- the Bloomsburg University Mathematics and Computer Science Departmental Seminar Series, March 24, 1998.
"Use EXCEL to analyze the game 24 points" -- the Bloomsburg Memorial Elementary School Enrichment Program, March 23, 1998.
"What are your chances?" -- at the Bloomsburg Memorial Elementary School Enrichment Program, March 2, 1998.
"Mathematical games and probabilities" -- at the Bloomsburg University TALE Seminar, Nov. 12, 1997.
"On the game 24 points" -- to the high school students participating in the Summer 1997 Bloomsburg University PRIDE Students Program, June 19, 1997.
“Detection of the periodic component & its application to sun spot data"--- Seminar of Dept. of Math. & Comp. Sci., Bloomsburg University, Spring, 1996 (with Reza Noubary).
“On solving complex equations"--- Seminar of Dept. of Math. & Comp. Sci., Bloomsburg University, Fall, 1995.
“On enclosing simple roots of continuous functions"--- Seminar of Dept. of Math. & Comp. Sci., Bloomsburg University, Fall, 1992.