| Education |
|---|
| Graduate Education |
| University of California at Berkeley |
| Ph.D. June 1972 in Mathematics |
| Thesis Advisor: Alfred Tarski |
| Undergraduate Education |
| Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California |
| B.Sc. June 1967 in Mathematics with Distinction and Departmental Honors |
| Professional Employment | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1986-present | Professor | University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC |
| 1991-1994 | Department Chair | University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC |
| 1979-86 | Associate Professor | University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC |
| 1975-79 | Assistant Professor | University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC |
| Visiting Positions | 1995-96 | Visiting Professor | University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI |
| 1994 (Summer) | Visiting Researcher | LaTrobe University, Bundoora, Australia |
| 1985 (Fall) | Visiting Professor | University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 1982-83 | Visiting Fulbright Professor | University of The Philippines |
| 1982 (Spring) | Visiting Associate Professor | University of Hawaii, Honolulu,HI |
| 1979 (Fall) | Visiting Associate Professor | University of California, La Jolla,CA |
| 1975 (Summer) | Visiting Research Mathematician | Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, Germany |
| Postdoctoral Positions | ||
| 1973-75 | J. W. Young Research Instructor | Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH |
| 1973 (Summer) | Visiting Assistant Researcher | University of California, Berkeley, CA |
| 1972-73 | NRC Postdoctorate Fellow | University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada |
| Awards and Honors | |
|---|---|
| 1998 | Stanislaw Ulam Lectureship, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 1994 | Invited Hour Address, American Mathematical Society, Lexington, Kentucky |
| 1983 | Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Darmstadt, Germany |
| 1982-83 | Fulbright-Hays Professorship, Manila, Philippines |
| 1967-69, 71-72 | National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, UC Berkeley |
| 1967-68 | Honorary Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship, UC Berkeley |
| Grant Support | |
|---|---|
| 1994-96 | National Science Foundation ILIG Instructional Equipment Grant |
| 1994-95 | National Science Foundation SCREMS Research Equipment Grant |
| 1993 | Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Program Grant |
| 1991 | National Science Foundation Grant for the Day Symposium |
| 1990 | National Science Foundation Grant for the Jónsson Symposium |
| 1988 | National Science Foundation Grant for the Fourth Southeastern Logic Symposium |
| 1980-85 | National Science Foundation EPSCoR Grant ISP-80-11451, Co-investigator |
| 1980-82 | National Science Foundation Grant MCS-80-01778, Principal Investigator |
| Editing, Refereeing, and Reviewing |
|---|
| Member, Editorial Board of Algebra Universalis. (1990--2005) |
| Editor for the volume of Algebra Universalis dedicated to Bjarni Jónsson on his 70th birthday. |
| Referee for 20 professional journals. |
| Reviewer for the National Science Foundation in logic, algebra, and computer science. |
| Reveiwer for the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. |
| Reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. |
| Reviewer for the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. |
| Reviewer for the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA). |
| Service on Professional Panels | |
|---|---|
| 2010 | East Carolina University: External Review of the Mathematics Department (Committee Chair) |
| 2004 | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools: Accreditation Review Panel |
| (Auburn University) | |
| 2003 | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools: Accreditation Review Panel |
| (Mississippi State University) | |
| 1995-97 | Council for International Exchange of Scholars: Discipline Advisory Committee in Mathematics |
| (Part of the selection process for Fulbright awards) | |
| 1995 | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools: Accreditation Review Panel |
| (University of Central Florida) | |
| 1993 | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools: Accreditation Review Panel |
| (Texas A& M University) | |
| 1988 | National Research Council: NSF Graduate Fellowship Selection Panel (Computer Science) |
| Conference Organization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Order, Algebra, and Logic, | May 2007, Nashville, Tennessee | |
| American Mathematical Society Regional Meeting, | October 2004, Nashville, Tennessee | |
| Algebras, Lattices, Varieties | August 2004, Boulder, Colorado | |
| Association for Symbolic Logic | July 2004, Torino, Italy | |
| Modern Algebra and Its Applications | May 2002, Nashville, Tennessee | |
| American Mathematical Society Regional Meeting, | March 2001, Columbia, South Carolina | |
| Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory | July 1996, Szeged, Hungary | |
| Modern Algebra and Its Applications | May 1996, Nashville, Tennessee | |
| Lattices, Ordered Sets, and Algebra | August 1993, Szeged, Hungary | |
| Universal Algebra and Category Theory | July 1993, MSRI, Berkeley, California | |
| The Alan Day Conference | August 1992, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | |
| The Jónsson Symposium (Chair) | July 1990, Laugarvatn, Iceland | |
| The Fifth Southeastern Logic Symposium | March 1989, Charlotte, North Carolina | |
| International Symposium on General Algebra | July 1988, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia | |
| The Fourth Southeastern Logic Symposium (Chair) | March 1988, Columbia, South Carolina | |
| Conference on Algebras, Lattices, and Logic (Chair) | July 1987, Asilomar, California | |
| The Fine Structure Symposium (Co-Chair) | June 1986, Berkeley, California | |
| Conference on Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory | January 1982, Puebla, Mexico | |
| Day Meeting on Algebra and Logic (Chair) | December 1979, San Diego, California | |
| Membership In Professional Societies | |
|---|---|
| The American Mathematical Society | |
| Graduate Students | ||
|---|---|---|
| Master's Students | ||
| Daniel Toth | M.S. | 1980 |
| Todd Schneider | M.S. | 1981 |
| Celeste Harter | M.S. | 1991 |
| David Harvey | M.S. | 1991 |
| Robert Aaron Monastra | M.S. | 2002 |
| Kathryn Hope Scott | M.A. | 2007 |
| Doctoral Students | ||
| Davorin Dujmovic | Ph.D. | 1994 |
| Zsolt Lengvarsky | Ph.D. | 1996 |
| Marton Nagy | Ph.D. | 1997 |
| Zoltan Szekely | Ph.D. | 1998 |
| Jiangfeng Wu | Ph.D. | 2005 |
| Kathryn Scott Owens | Ph.D. | 2009 |
| John Franklin Boozer IV | Ph.D. | 2010 |
| Undergraduate Students | ||
| Michele Marinkovich | Research Assistant | 1994-95 |
| James Blair | Research Assistant | 1995 |
| Julye Johns | Baccalaureus Artium et Scientiae | 1996 |
| Katherine Spurrier | Carolina Scholar | 2000-2001 |
| Secondary School Students | ||
| Michelle Marinkovich | Summer Research 1993 | Spring Valley High School |
| John Hart | Senior Project 1994-95 | Heathwood Hall |
| Andrea Muller | Summer Research 1995 | Swansea High School |