Faculty Publications

Publications - Collaborative         

• Principles of Mathematics, a general education textbook. Authored by Catawba College Mathematics Department faculty members.

Publications - Paul L. Baker         

• A Shadowy Passage, Cambodia, The Subversion, an autobiographical novel, 2005.
• A Shadowy Passage, Vietnam: The Initiation, 2006.
• A Shadowy Passage, Hanoi: The Ultimate Journey, Coming 2007

Publications - Jason Hunt         

• Co-author, "Overcoming Bad Management Theory: Rediscovering Moral Sentiments" paper with Dr. Andrew Morris, Dr. Jamie Slate, and Dr. John Zerger (published in the proceedings of the Academy of Management Meeting).

• Solved problem appearing in the American Mathematical Monthly (journal of the Mathematical Association of America) and submitted a solution to the journal (publication pending).

Publications - John Zerger         

• "Problem Number 804", Solution mentioned May 2006, College Math Journal
• "Overcoming Bad Management Theory", co-authored with Morris, Slate, Hunt, Proceedings of Academy of Mangement, August 2006
• "Problem Number 1662", Solution mentioned February 2004, Mathematics Magazine
• "A Generalization of Kasner's Theorem" Submitted May 2004, American Math Monthly
• "A Mathematical Treatment of the Lamoreaux-Raff-Temin Synthesis", co-authored with Dr. Slate, Proceedings of Academy of Economics and Finance, Spring 2004
• "Problem Number 10911", Solution mentioned October 2003, American Math Monthly
• "Problem Number 701", Solution mentioned May 2002, College Math Journal
• "Markov, Fibonacci, and Pell Numbers", Submitted August 2001, College Math Journal"
• "A Divisibility Criterion" Submitted March 2001 to College Math Journal
• "Finite Simple Groups With FF-Modules and a Characterization of Rank 2 Amalgams Involving Transvection Groups"; Ph.D. Dissertation, Kansas State University – 1996

Presentations - Paul L. Baker         

• "FreeCell, Common Sense and Statistics", Appalachian Regional Conference on Teaching Statistics (ARCOTS), Spring 2003
• "Rational Vertices for Triangles Inscribed in the Unit Circle", Southeast Regional Conference of the Mathematics Association of America (MAA), Spring 2006.
• "Mathematics: Not a School Lunch Plate", National Convention of the School Science and Mathematics Association (SSMA), Fall 2006.

Presentations - Jason Hunt         

• "Overcoming Bad Management Theory: Rediscovering Moral Sentiments" Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2006 (co-presentation)
• "Classifying Graphs Using Forbidden Subgraphs" Southeastern Section Spring Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, Raleigh, NC, March 2005

Presentations - Sharon Sullivan         

• "Counting Isomorphic (16,6,2) Configurations to a particular (16,6,2) Design" at the national Joint Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society meeting in New Orleans, Spring 2007
• "Coding and Cryptography", West Rowan Math Team, Fall 2006
• "Teaching Math through Art" at the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Greensboro, NC, Fall 2006
• Celebrated Pi Day with a first grade class, North Rowan Elementary School, Spring 2006
• "Buffon's Needle Experiment: Celebrating PI Day", Salisbury High Math Team, Spring 2006
• "Cultural Mathematics: An Interdisciplinary Approach" at the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Greensboro, NC, Fall 2005
• "Constructing Extension Configurations from vk Configurations" at the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society Joint National Mathematical Meeting in Atlanta, GA Spring 2005
• "Forming Configurations from Nondegenerate Quadratic Forms over Finite Fields" at the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society Joint National Mathematical Meeting in Phoenix, AZ Spring 2004.
• "Modular Arithmetic", Salisbury High Math Team, Salisbury, NC Fall 04             "Cryptograph and Coding", Salisbury High Math Team, Salisbury, NC Fall 2003

Presentations - John Zerger         

• "A Generalization of Kasner's Theorem"; SE Section Meetings, Clemson, SC, March 2003
• "Linear and Integer Programming"; Invited Speaker: North Carolina Governor's School for Math and Sciences, July 2002
• "Integer Programming for Undergraduate Math Majors"; SE Section Meetings (Joint), Atlanta, March 2002
• "Graduating from College without College Algebra"; Joint Mathematics Meetings (MAA/AMS), San Diego, January 2002
• "Rational Approximations of Irrationals"; Invited Speaker: North Carolina Governor's School for Math and Sciences, July 2001
• "Continued Fractions and Binary Quadratic Forms"; Joint Mathematics Meetings (MAA/AMS), New Orleans, January 2001
• "Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio"; Integrated Faculty Colloquia, Catawba College, October 2000
• "Maxima of Bounded Polytopes"; Invited Speaker: North Carolina Governor's School for Math and Sciences, July 2000
• "Introduction to Rank 2-Amalgams"; SE Sectional Meetings of MAA, Charlotte, NC, March 2000
• "Integral Solutions of Binary Quadratic Forms"; Invited Speaker: North Carolina Governor's School for Math and Sciences, July 1999
• "Education and Your Future"; China Grove (NC) Middle School, November 1998
• "A Series of Events"; Catawba College Colloquium Series, November 1995
• "Finite Simple Groups With FF-Modules and a Characterization of Rank 2 Amalgams Involving Transvection Groups"; Special Session in "Groups and Geometries”, at the Central Section Meeting of the American Mathematics Society Manhattan, Kansas, March 1994
• "Maxima of Bounded Polytopes or the Matchmaker's Theorem" (Kansas) Joint Mathematics Spring Conference Emporia, Kansas, March 1993