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Position : Professor of Mathematics
Office: MacQuarrie Hall Room 418
Office hours (August 21 -- December 10, 2018):
- MW 13:00 -- 13:30
- TuTh 9:30 -- 10:30
- by appointment via email
Address:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, California 95192-0103
U.S.A.
Telephone: 408-924-5155
Fax : 408-924-5080
Email: wasin dot so at sjsu dot edu
Education
Academic Experience
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications,
University of Minnesota, 1991--1992.
- Postdoctoral Researcher,
Center of Linear Structures and Combinatorics , University of Lisbon, 1993.
- Project NExT Fellow, 1994--1995.
- Assistant Professor,
Sam Houston State University , 1992--1999.
- Visiting Researcher, Xiangtan Polytechnic University, Hunan, China, May--June 1999.
- Associate Professor, Sam Houston State University, 1999--2000.
- Associate Professor, San Jose State University, 2000 -- 2006.
- Visiting Researcher, University of Malta, Malta, July 2012.
- Visiting Researcher, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India, March--April, 2016.
- Visiting Researcher, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, October--November, 2016.
- Visiting Researcher, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China, July, 2018.
- Professor, San Jose State University, 2006 -- present.
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Courses taught NEXT semester (Fall 2018: August 21 -- December 10, 2018):
- MATH 32 Calculus III, section 3, TuTh 10:30 -- 11:45, MH423
- MATH 32 Calculus III, section 4, TuTh 13:30 -- 14:45, MH423
- MATH 108 Introduction to Abstract Mathematics and Proofs, section 1, MW 13:30 -- 14:45, MH320
Courses taught before:
- Calculus sequence:
- Discrete Mathematics sequence:
- Linear Algebra sequence:
- Probability and Statistics sequence:
- Applied Math sequence:
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Interests :
- Matrix Theory : the study of arrays
- Graph Theory : the study of dots and lines
- Probability Theory : the study of chances
- Number Theory : the study of integers
Ongoing Projects, Preprints, and Recent Publications :
- On the energy and skew energy of graphs (with Wen-Huan Wang), preprint.
- On the sparsity of Jordan form (with Minh Vu), preprint.
- How many integral circulant graphs are there (with C. Cusanza), preprint.
- Unicyclic Graphs with Second Largest and Second Smallest Permanental Sums (with Tingzeng Wu), submitted.
- The automorphism group of the Knodel graph W(k,2^k) (with R. Balakrishnana, P. Paulrajab, and M. Vinayd), submitted.
- Constructions of graphs and trees with partially prescribed spectrum (with X. Li and I. Gutman),
MATCH Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry 80 (2018) 415--421.
- Distance Energy Change of Complete Bipartite Graph Due to Edge Deletion (with A. Varghese and A. Vijayakumar), Linear Algebra and its Applications 553 (2018) 211--222.
- On the maximum skew spectral radius and minimum skew energy of tournaments (with Bo Deng, Xueliang Li and Bryan Shader), Linear and Multilinear Algebra 66 (2018) 1434--1441.
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Past publication (before 2018)
Upcoming meetings and Recent Presentations:
- Qinghai Nationalities University, Xining, China, July 23, 2018
- Qinghai Normal University, Xining, China, July 17, 2018
- "Skew Energy -- Almost ten year later"
- Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China, July 1 -- 15, 2018
- "Distance Matrix, Spectrum and Energy of a Graph"
- "Graph Energy Change"
- "Integral Circulant Graphs"
- "Inverse Eigenvalue Problem for Graphs"
- Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, California, January 10--13, 2018.
- "Distance energy change of graphs due to edge deletion"
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Past presentations (before 2018)
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Department (2018-2019)
- Mathematics Graduate Coordinator
- Member of RTP Committee
- Member of Recruitment Committee
Professional
- Master thesis/project students
- Jane Huang, Image Registration and Wavelet
Decomposition, 1997
- Linda Zientek, Fundamental Similarity, 1997
- David Benzel, Pythagorean Triples and Jasmenwozc
Conjecture, 1998
- Christopher F. Cusanza, Integral Circulant Graphs with the Spectral Adam Property , 2006.
Abstract
- Viet Nguyen, Construction of Symmetric Matrices with Prescribed Spectra, 2006.
Abstract
- Tue Rust, Understand the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, 2006.
Abstract
- Wilson Florero, The Search of Graphs Equienergetic with Edge Deleted Subgraph , 2008.
Abstract
- Vinh Nguyen, Family of Circulant Graphs and its Expander Properties , 2010.
Abstract
- David Zimmermann, The Friendship Theorem , 2010.
Abstract
- Usha Watson, Integral Cayley Graphs over Z_2 + Z_{2p} , 2011.
Abstract
- Nick Khorlin, A Characterization of Graphically Spectral Numbers , 2013.
Abstract
- Ryan Flarity, Generation and Completion of Unimodular Matrices , 2013.
Abstract
- Shanthi Kannan, Hitting Time and PageRank , 2014.
Abstract
- Minh Vu, A Study of the Sparsity Property of the Jordan Canonical Form, 2016.
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- Referee for the following journals
- Linear Algebra and its Applications
- Linear and Multilinear Algebra
- SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
- Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra
- American Mathematical Monthly
- Discrete Mathematics
- Reviewer of Mathematical Reviews
- Examiner of
- University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
- Bharathidasan University, India
- Co-organizer of the following meetings:
- 1999 Conference on Multiwavelets: theory and applications, Huntsville, Texas
- 2001 Southern California Matrix Conference, San Jose, California
- 2004 Southern California Matrix Conference, San Jose, California
- 2005 R. C. Thompson Matrix Conference, San Francisco, California
- 2007 R. C. Thompson Matrix Conference, Auburn, Alabama
- Judge of the following math/science fair
- 2001 Intel Science Fair
- 2002, 2003, 2004 MAA Math Undergrad Poster
- AP Statistics reader
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Linear Algebra Journals
Mathematical Societies
Mathematics Centers
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