Faculty Experts- Mathematics and Computer Science
Name: Marlow AndersonTitle: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6543
E-mail: manderson@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. Whitman College, 1972; Ph. D. University of Kansas, 1978
Came to CC: 1983
Courses taught: Mathematics, general education, First-Year Experience
Areas of expertise: Recent developments in mathematics; history of mathematics; abstract algebra; mathematics and science of scuba diving
Major publications: "Lattice-ordered groups"; "A First Course in Abstract Algebra" Another book to appear: collection of articles on the history of mathematics
Other areas of personal interest: Scuba diving; baseball statistics
Name: Jonathan Bredin
Title: Assistant professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6540
E-mail: jbredin@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.S.E. University of Pennsylvania, computer science and engineering; Ph.D. Dartmouth College, computer science
Came to CC in: 2001
Courses taught at CC: Operating Systems; Robotics; Artificial Intelligence; E- Commerce; Theory of Computation; Computational Chaos
Areas of expertise: Electronic commerce; automated bidding; resource allocation in distributed systems
Major publications: Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems
Name: David Brown
Title: Assistant professor
Office phone: (719) 227-8215
E-mail: dbrown@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A., liberal arts, St. John's College PhD, applied mathematics, Univ. of
California Davis
Came to CC in: 2004
Courses taught at CC: Calculus, Statistics, Linear Algebra, Probability, Mathematical Analysis,
Mathematical Biology, Bioinformatics, Mathematics of HIV, Mathematical Modeling
Areas of expertise: Mathematical biology: ecology, epidemic modeling, regulation of genetic networks
Major publications: Fu, S., H. Ferris, D. Brown, and R. Plant. Does the positive feedback effect of
nematodes on the biomass and activity of their bacteria prey vary with nematode
species and population size? In Press, Soil Biology and Biochemistry. Brown, D.,
H. Ferris, S. Fu, and R. Plant. 2004. Modeling direct positive feedback between
predators and prey. Theoretical Population Biology 65:143--152. Brown, D. and B.
Bolker. 2004. The effects of disease dispersal and host clustering on the
epidemic threshold in plants. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 66:341--371.
Brown, D. and A. Hastings. 2003. Resistance may be futile: dispersal scales and
selection for disease resistance in competing plants. Journal of Theoretical
Biology 222:373--388.
Other areas of personal/professional interest: postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Agronomy and Range Science, U.C. Davis,
2001-2003
Name: Steven Janke
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6539
E-mail: sjanke@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, mathematics
Came to CC in: 1975
Courses taught at CC: Statistics; Computing; Artificial Intelligence
Areas of expertise: Statistics; probability; computer science
Major publications: Textbook: "Introduction to Linear Models and Statistical Inference," (co-authored with Fred Tinsley)
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Symmetry in art and nature
Name: Jane M. McDougall
Title: Assistant professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6275
E-mail: jmcdougall@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1996, mathematics.
Came to CC in: 1997
Courses taught: Mathematics of Soap Films; Statistical Modeling of the Environment; Programming in Pascal and Java; Statistics
Areas of expertise: Mathematics of soap films
Hobby: Running marathons
Name: Mike Siddoway
Title: Professor of mathematics
Office phone: (719) 389-6541
E-mail: msiddoway@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.S. mathematics, Notre Dame 1979; Northwestern 1980-1981; M.S. mathematics, Tulane 1985; Ph.D. mathematics, Tulane 1988
Came to CC in: 1988
Courses taught at CC: MA110 Art of Mathematics, MA116 Discrete Mathematics, MA117 Probability and Statistics, The entire calculus sequence [MA125, MA126, MA128, MA 203], Combinatorics, Number Theory, Non-Euclidean Geometry, Abstract Algebra I, Abstract Algebra II, Complex Analysis, History of Mathematics, Computational Algebra, Cummutative Algebra, Ethics in Science and Mathematics.
Areas of expertise: Algebra, Commutative Algebra, Computational Algebra, History of Mathematics, Ethics in Science (not an expert in the latter, but widely read and have taught a special course on this topic and include this material in my history courses).
Major publications: Refereed research papers in algebra journals, Papers on using original sourses in teaching mathematics, Many talks on historical topics over the last 20 years at national and international conferences.
Other areas of interest: fly fishing, bird hunting, bird dogs, native grasses and prairie restoration, socialism.
Pertinent biographical information: Grew up in southeastern Idaho and eastern Montana. Fished in the Yellowstone caldera and hunted in native prairie so much that I was older than I should have been when I finally realized that these activities weren't my family's main occupations. Some exaggeration there, but not much.
Name: Frederick C. Tinsley
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6562
E-mail: ftinsley@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: M.A. mathematics; M.S. statistics; Ph.D. mathematics University of Wisconsin - Madison
Came to CC in: 1976
Courses taught at CC: All mathematics and statistics courses in the department
Areas of expertise: Statistics; geometric topology.
Sample topic: "Poincare Conjecture," one of the well-known "million dollar" problems
Major publications: "Introduction to Linear Models and Statistical Inference" by Steven Janke and Fred Tinsley (manuscript)
Pertinent biographical information: Qualified expert in El Paso County district court and have consulted on many legal cases
Name: John J. Watkins
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6542
E-mail: jwatkins@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. University of Kansas, mathematics
Came to CC in: 1978
Areas of expertise: Graph theory
Major publications: "Graphs: An Introductory Approach;" "Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard"
Other areas of personal/professional interest: African studies
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