Department of Mathematics

• Dr. Mehmet Celik received the MAA-Texas section Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics Award during the 2022 MAA-TX Section meeting at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX. The Texas Section of MAA is a major organization in collegiate math in Texas.
• Dr. KaSai Un was interviewed and featured as an Instructor Spotlight on MyLab Math in Co-requisite Math by Pearson, Fall 2022 http://www.pearson.com/content/dam/one-dot-com/one-dot-com/us/en/files/MyLabMath-CoreqMathSpotlight-2022.pdf
• As a co-PI, Dr. Rebecca Dibbs continues implementing the NSF Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program at Texas A&M University-Commerce with a total budget of $1,008,572.
• As PI, Dr. Yelin Ou continues implementing the project, the geometry of biharmonic maps and biharmonic submanifolds, funded by the Simons Foundation.

Submitted seven grant proposals with a total of $1,105,566

• PI: Pani Seneviratne, Co-PI: Mehmet Celik, Senior Personnel: Tingxiu Wang, Nikolay Sirakov, Aditi Ghosh, Zhaotin Wei submitted a proposal, Theoretical and Application Driven Mathematics (TADM) REU, to the NSF REU program for the project for a total budget of $387,000.
• PI: Pani Seneviratne, Co-PI: Mehmet Celik, Senior Personnel: Tingxiu Wang, Nikolay Sirakov, Aditi Ghosh, Zhaotin Wei submitted “Theoretical and Application-Driven Mathematics (TADM)-REU” to the National Security Agency titled for a total budget of $247,367.
• PI: Dr. Padmapani Seneviratne, co-PI: Mehmet Celik submitted an NREU Program sub-grant proposal for the 2022 summer.
• PI: Rebecca Dibbs and co-PI: Melanie Fields submitted an RTI & Research: An Action Research project on RTI for rural pre-service STEM teachers (R^2) to the Spencer Foundation with a total budget of $226,079 (not funded; resubmission invited)
• PI: Dr. Aditi Ghosh submitted a proposal to NSF for the NSF Conference grant with a budget of $ 31,560 on a Addressing Challenges in Access, Diversity, and Equity at the Applied Mathematics Interface (ACADEMI)-Cross- Institutional Research in Health and Data Science in Biological Ecology Education Research BEER Conference-2021.
• PI: Nikolay Sirakov submitted a grant proposal to Melanoma Research Alliance for a project, Embedding Singularities in Skin Lesions for Machine Learning Classification, with a total budget $99,000.
• PI: Zhaoting Wei submitted a grant proposal to NSF for the project, Title: Superconnections and Sheaves in Complex Geometry, with a total budget of $114,560.

1. Haley K. Bambico, Mehmet Çelik, Sarah T. Gross and Francis Hall. Generalization of the excess area and its geometric interpretation. New York J. Math. 28 (2022) 1230–1255.
2. Mehmet Çelik, Sönmez Şahutoğlu and Emil J. Straube, ‘A Sufficient Condition for Compactness of Hankel Operator,’ J. Operator Theory. 89:1 (2023), 101–111, doi: 10.7900/jot.2021apr04.2334
3. Dibbs, R. A., & Boyle, S. (2022). Mondrian rectangles: A rich review activity. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education-Texas, 12(2), 10-13.
4. Ghosh, A., & Mubayi, A. (2022). Beyond Trends and Patterns: Importance of the Reproduction Number from Narratives to the Dynamics of Mathematical Models. In Mathematics Research for the Beginning Student, Volume 2 (pp. 265-293). Birkhäuser, Cham.
5. Minchul Kang, Regression Analysis of Confocal FRAP and its Application to Diffusion in Membranes. Journal of Fluorescence (2022) 32:1031–1038. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-022-02926-1
6. Yelin Ou's, Bi-eigenfunctions and biharmonic submanifolds in a sphere, J. Geom. Phys., Vol. 180, 2022.
7. P. Seneviratne and Taher Abualrub, “New linear codes derived from skew generalized quasi-cyclic codes of any length”, Discrete Mathematics, (2022), vol. 345, Issue 11,113018. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2022.113018
8. Srinivasulu, B., Seneviratne, P. “Z2Z2[u4]-cyclic codes and their duals”. Comp. Appl. Math. (Springer) 41, 172 (2022). http://doi.org/10.1007/s40314-022-01872-9
9. P. G. Kandhare, A. Nakhmani, N. M. Sirakov, Deep learning for location prediction on noisy trajectories, Pattern Analysis and Applications -Springer, IF 2.307 , JCR 2021. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-022-01095-y, (June 17, 2022)
10. L. H. Ngo, N. M. Sirakov, M. Luong, E. Viennet and T. Le-Tien, “Image Classification Based on Sparse Representation in the Quaternion Wavelet Domain,” in IEEE Access IF 3.476, JCR 2020, vol. 10, pp. 31548-31560, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9734062, ( March 14, 2022)
11. Ngo, L. H., Luong, M., Sirakov, N.M. et al. Skin lesion image classification using sparse representation in quaternion wavelet domain. SIViP (2022), IF 1.583, 2021 JCR. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-021-02112-z, (2022)
12. Mutlu Akar, Nikolay M. Sirakov, Mutlu Mete, Clifford algebra multivectors and kernels for melanoma classification, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 2022;45:4056–4068. Publisher Wiley and Sons, IF 3.007, 2021 JCR, http://doi.org/10.1002/mma.8034, (2022).

Faculty submitted six grant proposals to the National Science Foundation, Melanoma Foundation and Spencer Foundation with a total budget of $1.25 million. Faculty also implemented the following grants:

1. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Noyce Grant, Preparing a Community of Outstanding STEM Teachers for Rural and Urban Northeast Texas. Dr. Rebecca Dibbs serves as a co-principal investigator.
2. National Research Experience for Undergraduates funded by the Mathematical Association of America. Dr. Mehmet Celik is the principal investigator, and Dr. Pani Seneviratne the co-PI (A&M-Commerce Research Students Present at Mathematics Conference)
3. Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). Dr. Minchul Kang is the PI.
4. Funded by the Simons Foundation: Biharmonic Maps and Submanifolds. Dr. Yelin Ou is the PI.

1. Bowden, A., Sirakov, N.M. Active Contour Directed by the Poisson Gradient Vector Field and Edge Tracking. J Math Imaging Vis 63, 665–680 (2021). http://doi.org/10.1007/s10851-021-01017-3
2. Celik, M., Sahutoglu, S. & Straube, E. J. ‘A Sufficient Condition for Compactness of Hankel Operator,’ accepted for publication in ‘Journal of Operator Theory.’ http://www.theta.ro/jot.html
3. Celik, M., Sahutoglu, S. & Straube, E. J. (2020). ‘Compactness of Hankel Operators with Continuous Symbols on Convex Domains,’ Houston Journal of Mathematics, vol. 46, no. 4, 991-1003
4. Dibbs, R. A. (2021). Preservice teacher PCK gains in a special education supplemented methods course: A case study. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education in Texas, 11(2), 12-14.
5. McKinney, T., & Dibbs, R. (2021). Performance in Calculus II for students in CLEAR Calculus: A causal comparative study. Pursue, 4(1). Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pursue/vol4/iss1/3.
6. Boyle, S, & Dibbs, R. A. (2021). Building the bridge: Preparing general and special educators to teach math to students with significant disabilities. In A. Markelz, (Ed.), TED 2021 Conference Proceedings: Steering into the Future (pp 204-208). Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children, Fort Worth, TX.
7. Akman, O., Chauhan, S., Ghosh, A. et al. The Hard Lessons and Shifting Modeling Trends of COVID-19 Dynamics: Multiresolution Modeling Approach. Bull Math Biol 84, 3 (2022). http://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-021-00959-4
8. Mubayi, A.; Pandey, A.; Brasic, C.; Mubayi, A.; Ghosh, P.; Ghosh, A. Analytical Estimation of Data-Motivated Time-Dependent Disease Transmission Rate: An Application to Ebola and Selected Public Health Problems. Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2021, 6, 141. http://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6030141
9. Y. Fu, S, Maeta, and Y. -L. Ou, Biharmonic hypersurfaces in product spaces, Math Nachr, 2021. (SCI math journal)
10. Y.-L. Ou, Stability and the index of biharmonic hypersurfaces in a Riemannian manifold, Annali Mate. Pura Appli., 2021. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10231-021-01135-0. (Science Citation Indexed math journal)
11. Bathala, S., Seneviratne, P. “Some results on F4[v]F4[v]-double cyclic codes”. Comp. Appl. Math. 40, 64 (2021). http://doi.org/10.1007/s40314-021-01428-3
12. Padmapani Seneviratne & Martianus Fredric Ezerman, “Two new zero-dimensional qubit codes from bordered metacirculant construction”, Discrete Math. Vol. 344, Issue 9, September 2021, 112491. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2021.112491
13. Padmapani Seneviratne, “A remark on skew factorization and new F4-linear codes”, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications, http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S1793830922500112
14. Wei, Zhaoting. Tensor-closed objects in the BGG category of a quantized semisimple Lie algebra, International Electronic Journal of Algebra 29 (2021), 175–186.
15. Wei, Zhaoting. Twisted complexes and simplicial homotopies, European Journal of Mathematics 7 (2021), no. 3, 1102–1123. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40879-021-00480-x