James R. Bozeman, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
1. Personal Data
Name: James R. Bozeman Professor and Chair
Institution: Lyndon State College Department: Mathematics & Comp. Sci.
Address: Lyndonville, VT 05851 USA Telephone: (office) 802-626-6489
email: (fax) 802-626-9770
website: http://lyndonstate.edu/member/james-r-bozeman/
2. Educational Background
Ph.D., Mathematics, 6/93, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Thesis Title: On Monotonic Pairs of Solid Tori
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Edward M. Brown
3. Book
New Perspectives on Stochastic Modeling and Data Analysis, J.R. Bozeman, V, Girardin, C.H. Skiadas (Eds), ISAST, ISBN: 978-6188-069-87-9, May, 2014.
4. Recent Refereed Publications
The Convexity Ratio and Applications, with Matthew Pilling, Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae, 76, No. 1 (2013), pp.47-53 :e-2013, 47-53.
Nearly Convex Sets and the Shape of Legislative Districts, with L. Pyrik and J. Theoret, Int. Journal Pure and Applied Math., Vol. 49, #3, 2008, pp. 341-347.
More Genus One Whitehead Manifolds and Counterexamples to a Conjecture of Brown, Proc. Jangjeon Math. Soc., Vol. 9, #1, July 2006, pp. 1-7.
Those Links in Solid Tori Which Admit a Unique Prime Decomposition, Proc.
Jangjeon Math. Soc., Vol. 8, #1, June 2005, pp. 1-11.
[Use Convexity, Not ‘Compactness’, When Measuring the Shape of Legislative
Districts, with K. Butler, E. Milne, T. Nicholson and M. Pilling, preprint, 2015.]
5. Recent Invited Talks
The Mathematics of DNA, Brattleboro Union High School, May 29, 2015 and Lyndon State College Science Seminar Series, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT, March 16, 2015.
What Your Math Teacher Never Told You, Hartford (VT) High School, May 29, 2015, St. Johnsbury Academy, March 20, 2008, Blue Mountain Union High School, March 30, 2007 and Green Mountain Union High School, Jan. 3, 2005.
The Convexity Ratio, its Calculation and The Shape of Legislative Districts, Middlebury College Mathematics Seminar, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, October 7, 2014.
Programming the Convexity Ratio and Applications, 3rd Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June, 2014.
Of Endogons, Exogons and…Salamanders, Battles Lecture (keynote speaker), Spring meeting of the Northeast Section of the Mathematical Association of America, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT, May, 2014.
Calculating the Convexity Ratio and Applications, 15th Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Conference, Mataro, Spain, June 2013
Using Mathematics to Detect Partisan Gerrymandering, Vermont State Colleges Faculty Fellow Presentation, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT May 2013
http://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/using-mathematics-ensure-electoral-fairness, 5/2/13.
Interview: Jim Bozeman on using math for legislative redistricting. (Vermont Edition, March 3, 2009)
Nearly Convex Sets and the Shape of Legislative Districts, Fifth International Conf. of Applied Mathematics and Computing, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, August, 2008
More Genus One Whitehead Manifolds and Counterexamples to a Conjecture of Brown, Mathematics Department Colloquium Presentation, Dartmouth College, June, 2007.
The Mathematics of Gerrymandering, STAR Center presentation with Lauren
Pyrik, student, Lyndon State College, Spring, 2004.
Those Links in Solid Tori Which Admit a Unique Prime Decomposition, The 14th International Conference of the Jangjeon Mathematical Society, University of Mysore, India, Dec. 22, 2003 and Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Joint India-AMS Meeting, Bangalore, India, Dec. 2003.
Adventures in Teaching Limits: An Unplanned Experiment Gone Awry, Eastern Regional Conference, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Boston, MA, Nov. 16, 2002.
Mathematical and Computer Modeling of DNA, Eastern Regional Conference, National Conference of Teachers of Mathematics, Springfield, MA, 11/3/2000.
6. Recent Presentations
Use Convexity, Not ‘Compactness’, When Measuring the Shape of Legislative Districts, MAA Session on Mathematics Experiences in Business, Industry and Government, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland, Jan. 2014
On Nearly Convex Sets and Applications, BIOCOMP2012, Mathematical Modeling and Computational Topics in Biosciences, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, June 2012
Nearly Convex Sets and the Shape of Legislative Districts, Joint Mathematics Meetings Special Session on the Redistricting Problem, Washington, DC, Jan. 2009
Identifying Those Links in Solid Tori Which Are Braids Made of Braids, Special
Session in Topology of Manifolds, 2nd Joint Meeting of AMS and DMV, Mainz, Germany, June 2005 and Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, AMS Sectional Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 2004.
Gender Issues in Teaching Upper-Level Mathematics Courses, Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics New England, Providence, RI, Oct. 21, 2004.
7. Research Grants
Calculating the Convexity Ratio, Board of Visitors faculty development fund award, Spring 2015.
Programming the Convexity Ratio, Faculty Development Fund Awards (Academic Excellence, Burnham and Board of Visitors), Lyndon State College, Spring 2014.
The Mathematics of Redistricting, Burnham Faculty Development Fund, Lyndon State College, Summer, 2009.
Computer Modeling of DNA, STAR Center Award, Lyndon State College, Spring, 2004.
The Mathematics of Gerrymandering, STAR Center Award, Lyndon State College, Spring 2003.
Mathematical Modeling of DNA; VT-EPSCoR, SCDC, NSF OSR-9350540; April 22, 1996.
Braided Links in Solid Tori; VT-EPSCoR, SCDC, NSF OSR-9350540 ; May 1, 1994.
When Are Knots in Solid Tori Braids?; VT-EPSCoR, SCDC, NSF RII-8610679; May 1, 1992.
8. Undergraduate Research Students; Titles of Research Papers
Hutchins, Sam and St. Germain, Kayla, Calculating the Convexity Ratio, in progress.
Butler, Kelly and Flynn, Kayla, Approximating the Convexity Ratio of Legislative Districts, found the convexity ratio of all of the federal legislative districts in Illinois, North Carolina and Texas using Adobe Illustrator and MATLAB (2014)
Davey, Matthew and Hutchins, Samuel, The Convexity Ratio in the 1-reflex angle case, wrote a program in MATLAB to calculate the convexity ratio for a simple closed polygon with 1-reflex angle and any number of non-reflex vertices. (2014)
Milne, Erin and Nicholson, Timothy, Programming the Convexity Ratio, wrote code in FORTRAN and MATLAB to find the area of the endogon in a 4- or 5-vertex non-convex simple planar polygon (2013).
Rosato, Melissa, Calculating the Convexity Ratio of Voting Districts, calculated the convexity ratio for legislative districts in Vermont and New Hampshire (2013)
Pilling, Matthew, The Mathematics of Redistricting, showed that a method of measuring the shape of legislative districts is better than, or as good as, other methods in the literature (2009).
Pyrik, Lauren, The Mathematics of Gerrymandering, Lyndon State College. Awarded the Sigma Zeta Research Award and presented at the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences Spring Student Symposium at Norwich University, 4/24/04.
Stagg, Carl,, designed figures for Counterexamples to a Conjecture of Brown. Worked on computer model of the 3-D conformation of DNA, Lyndon State College,1/99-5/99.
Will, Oliver, A Distance Formula for RNA Secondary Structure, Senior Honors Thesis in Mathematics, Dartmouth College, 6/96.
Hume, Donald (presently employed as a computer scientist), power-point presentation for The Mathematics of DNA , Vermont State Colleges Faculty Fellow presentation, 4/25/96.
Payeur, Nicole (awarded an M.A. in Mathematics, University of Connecticut), The Link Between Mathematics and Medicine, Lyndon State College,3/94.
Hayes, Loanne (now a CPA), The DNA Helix, Lyndon State College,3/94.
Barnett, Kathyanne, The Chirality of Molecules, Lyndon State College, 3/94.
(the latter two students gave talks at the Student Paper Session of the fall meeting of the Northeastern Section of the MAA at the University of Hartford in 1994.)
Smith, Shane, Two Points on Opposite Sides of the Earth Have the Same Weather, Lyndon State College.
9. Awards and Honors
Vermont State College Faculty Fellow, 9/13 – 8/14, 9/95 - 8/96
Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College, 6/94 - 6/02
1st Prize for Triple Integrals and the Fourth Dimension, Northeastern Section of the MAA Favorite Calculus Problem Poster Contest, 6/91
10. Professional Activities
Member, Scientific Committee, 16th Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Conference, 30 June – 4 July 2015 Piraeus, Greece
Member, Scientific Committee, 3rd Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June, 2014.
Member, Editorial Board, Proceedings of the Jangjeon Mathematical Society, 1/12 -
Member, Editorial Board, Advanced Studies in Contemporary Mathematics, 1/05-
Chair, Faculty Assembly of Lyndon State College, 6/03-8/11
Chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science 8/14 - , 9/00 – 8/12 , 8/93 - 9/94, Lyndon State College
Fulbright Scholars Program Campus Representative, Lyndon State College, 8/00 –
Vermont Mathematics Coalition Expanding Horizons program speaker
Vermont State Colleges Experts List
11. Undergraduate Courses Taught
Topology
Real and Complex Analysis
Numerical Analysis
Special Studies-Undergraduate Research in Geometry and Topology
Geometry
Vector Calculus
Linear Algebra
Differential Equations
Calculus I, II and III
Precalculus
Intermediate Algebra
Problem Solving with Mathematics
Basic Math
Fortran Programming
Basic Programming
Introduction to the Academic Community
Pilot course in Basic Algebra/Problem Solving
Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing
12. Graduate Course Taught
Topology and Geometry for Teachers
13. Supplemental Training
Sabbatical Leave at Dartmouth College, Extension of Dissertation from Knots to Links, 1/94-8/94.