Annual Evaluation for 2005

Warren Wm. McGovern

In 2005, my first Ph.D. student was hooded and accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professorship at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. We are currently working on a project that should lead to a publication, and she has 2 other papers completed and submitted. I also took on my 2nd Ph.D. student, Nicholas Immormino. He is currently working on publishing some parts of his dissertation and is actively working on it. We hope that he will be done in spring of 2007. Finally, I agreed to be the Master’s Thesis adviser for Ms. Andrea Dieterly. We worked together all of the Fall 2005 but due to personal circumstances she had to take a medical withdraw from the semester.

With regards to teaching, in the Fall of 2005 I taught Math 403/503 for the first time. The class was 50% graduate students and 50% undergraduate students. I worked very hard on making the classes different for the two different sectors of the group. For example, I created two different syllabi and had different homework assigned to the different groups. The testing and evaluation was also different for each group. The exams for the undergrads was much more application oriented, whereas for the graduate students it was much more proof oriented. With respect to Math 313 I was able to cover much more material in the class while at the same time assigning more HW. The class as a whole was very receptive to my demands and the class average on the three exams was always around 87%, which I think is exceptional. I do not take credit, instead I am just sharing that the students we have now are a great batch.

In the spring of 2005 I begin the process of creating my tenure portfolio. It was turned in at the beginning of the Fall. I have heard back from the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and he has recommended me for tenure.

I. Research Activity

Accepted Papers (all refereed):

1. W. Wm. McGovern, Neat Be’zout domains are elementary divisor domains, submitted Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.

2. W. Wm. McGovern, Neat Rings, Accepted: 2005. J. Pure and Applied. Alg.

3. J. Gomez-Perez and W. Wm. McGovern, When is Cm(X) a weak P-space?, Accepted: 2005. Top. Appl.

4. W. Wm. McGovern, A characterization of commutative clean rings, Accepted:2004. International Journal of Commutative Rings.

5. A. W. Hager, C. M. Kimber, & W. Wm. McGovern, a-extensions of Archimedean

l-groups with weak order unit, Czechoslovak J. Math. 55 (105) no. 2, 409-421.

6. W. Wm. McGovern, Rings of quotients induced by points, Acta Math. Hungarica, 105 (2004), no. 3, p. 215-230.

7. A. W. Hager, C. M. Kimber, & W. Wm. McGovern, Weakly least integer closed groups, Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, 52 (2003), no. 3, p. 453-480.

8. W. Wm. McGovern, Clean semiprime f-rings with bounded inversion, Comm. Alg., 31 (2003), no. 7, p. 3295-3304.

Works in Progress

1. Michelle L. Knox and W. Wm. McGovern, Rigid extensions of rings of continuous functions, in preparation.

2. W. Wm. McGovern, W. Iberkleid, R. Lafuente-Rodriguez, The r-topology on C(X), in preparation.

3. W. Wm. McGovern, Neat Bezout domains are elementary divisor domains, in preparation.

4. Michelle L. Knox and W. Wm. McGovern, Feebly projectable frames, in preparation.

Reviews of Articles and Books

2005

1. Reviewed a paper for the Math Reviews.

2. Refereed a paper for the journal Order.

2003

1. Refereed a paper for the journal Algebra Universalis.

2. Refereed a paper for the journal The London Mathematical Society.

Meetings attended and talks given:

2005

1. Presented a paper at the Southeastern Special Session of the A.M.S. at East Tennessee State university, Johnson City, TN. October 2005.

1. Presented a paper at the Eighth Conference on Ordered Algebraic Structures, Mississippi State University, Oxford, MS. April 2005.

2. Speaker in the Bowling Green State University Algebra Seminar, Spring and Fall semester 2005.

2004

1. Attended the Workshop on Tilting Modules, Ohio State University @ Lima, Fall semester.

2. Speaker at the OSU-OU Ring Theory Seminar, November 2004.

3. . Speaker in the Honors Seminar-- Math 295, BGSU, October 2004.

4. Presented a paper at the Seventh Conference on Ordered Algebraic Structures, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. March 2004.

5. Speaker in the Bowling Green State University Algebra Seminar, Spring and Fall semester 2003.

6. Speaker in the Research Areas Seminar, Bowling Green State University.

2003

1. Invited Speaker at the Math Club, Wesleyan University, October 2003.

2. Invited Speaker at Colloquium at Wesleyan University, October 2003.

3. Speaker at SUMSRI, Miami University, June 2003.

4. Presented a paper at the Conference on Ordered Algebraic Structures, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. March 2003.

5. Speaker in the Bowling Green State University Algebra Seminar, January, April, September, October, November 2003.

Grants and Research Proposals

2005

1. Applied together with Chawne Kimber, for a special session at the 2006 national meeting of the American Mathematical Society.

2003

1. Applied for an Information Literacy Fellowship Grants with Robin Sinn, Head Librarian at the Ogg Science Library., Spring 2003.

2. Obtained a $50 Greek Affairs grant, Spring 2003.

II. Service Activity

Department Committees:

2005

1. Thesis adviser for Andrea Dieterly, Fall 2005.

2.. Attended the Honors and Awards Convocation for the College of Education and Human Development, April 17th, 2005 as representative of the Dept. Math. & Stats.

3. Member of the Mathematics Undergraduate Committee, Fall/Spring 2005.

4. Integrated Mathematics Advisor, Spring 2005.

5. Elected to the department’s Personnel Committee, Spring/Fall 2005.

6. Corresponding Secretary for Kappa Mu Epsilon, Spring 2005.

7. Dissertation adviser for Nicholas Immormino, Spring/Summer/Fall 2005.

8. Dissertation adviser for Michelle Knox, Spring/Summer 2005.

9. Member of Jon Dunlap’s Dissertation Committtee, Spring 2005.

10. Organized the Algebra Seminar, Spring/Fall 2005.

2004

1. Elected to the department’s Personnel Committee, Fall 2004.

2. Member of the Mathematics Undergraduate Committee, Fall/Spring 2004.

3. Faculty advisor to Kappa Mu Epsilon, Spring 2004.

KME is the university and department’s mathematical honor society. Membership is by invitation only.

4. Corresponding Secretary for Kappa Mu Epsilon, Fall 2004.

5. Department liaison to the Ohio Section of the MAA, Spring 2004.

6. Dissertation adviser for Michelle Knox, Spring/Fall 2004.

7. Organized the Algebra Seminar, Spring/Fall 2004.

2003

1. Member of the Mathematics Undergraduate Committee, Spring 2003.

2. Faculty advisor to Kappa Mu Epsilon, Fall/Spring 2003.

KME is the university and department’s mathematical honor society. Membership is by invitation only.

3. Department liaison to the Ohio Section of the MAA, Fall/Spring 2003.

4. Dissertation adviser for Michelle Knox, Spring/Fall 2003.

University Committees:

2005

1. Attend the Faculty of Color sponsored by the Vice-Provost’s office, April, 2005.

2. Faculty advisor to Lambda Chi Alpha, 2005.

3. Faculty Adviser for Juntos (the Latino Graduate Student Association). Fall/Spring 2005.

4. Attended the Faculty of Color Forum, March 2005.

2004

1. Faculty advisor to Lambda Chi Alpha, 2004.

2. Faculty Adviser for Juntos (the Latino Graduate Student Association). Fall/Spring 2004.

2003

1. Member of the Book Store Advisory Committee, Spring 2003.

2. Faculty Adviser for Juntos-Latino Graduate Student Association. Fall/Spring 2003.

3. Faculty Adviser for Lambda Chi Alpha. Fall/Spring 2003.

Lambda Chi Alpha is a campus wide academic and social fraternity.

Professional Societies:

1. Member of the AMS 1998-2005.

Awards

2005

1. Received a special recognition from the members of Kappa Mu Epsilon for my 4 years of service.

2004

1. Awarded “Best Faculty Advisor of the Semester” for the fall semester by Greek Affairs, Fall 2004.

III. Teaching Activity

Courses taught:

2005

1. Math 339 Fundamental Concepts of Modern Algebra: (19 students), Spring 2005.

2. Math 417: (6 students), Spring 2005.

3. Math 517: (2 students), Spring 2005.

4. Math 411 History of Mathematics: (25 students), Spring 2005 (March 2nd-May5th).

5. Math 332 Elementary Linear Algebra: (10 students), Summer 2005.

6. Math 313 Elementary Logic: (27 students), Fall 2005.

7. Math 403 Modern Algebra: (7 students), Fall 2005.

8. Math 503 Modern Algebra: (6 students), Fall 2005.

2004

1. Math 411 History of Mathematics: (24 students), Spring 2004.

2. Math 511 History of Mathematics: (1 student), Spring 2004.

3. Math 634 Algebra II: (5 students), Spring 2004.

4. Math 682 Goup Rings: (8 students), Summer 2004.

5. Math 313 Elementary Logic: (27 students), Fall 2004.

6. Math 339 Fundamental Concepts of Modern Algebra : (17 students), Fall 2004.

7. Math 779 Dissertation Research: (1 student), Spring/Fall 2004.

2003

1. Math 402 Modern Geometry: (14 students), Spring 2003.

2. Math 411 History of Mathematics: (25 students), Spring 2003.

3. Math 502 Modern Geometry: (1 student), Spring 2003.

4. Math 511 History of Mathematics: (1 student), Spring 2003.

5. Math 682 Topics in Set Theory: (9 students). Fall 2003.

6. Math 633 Algebra I: (5 students). Fall 2003.

Independent Studies:

2005

1. Conducted a readings course for Andrea Dieterly, Math 680, Fall 2005.

2. Conducted a readings course for Papiya Bhattacharjee, Math 680, Fall 2005.

3. Conducted a readings course for Michelle Knox in Math 799, Spring/Summer 2005.

4. Conducted a readings course for Nicholas Immormino in Math 799, Spring/Fall 2005.

5. Ran a readings course Math 470 for 2 undergraduate students in Foundations in Mathematics, Spring 2005.

6. Conducted a readings course for Tim Jaccobbe, Spring 2005.

2004

1. Conducted a readings course for Michelle Knox in Math 799, Spring/Fall 2004.

2. Conducted a readings course for Nicholas Immormino in Math 680, Fall 2004.

2003

1. Conducted a readings course for Michelle Knox in Math 799, Spring/Fall 2003.

Comprehensive and Qualifying Exams:

2005

1. Graded Comprehensive Examinations in Algebra. July 2005.

2004

1. Wrote and graded Comprehensive Examinations in Algebra. July 2004.