PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION AND RESUME
NAME:
George D. Poole
682 Fox Meadow Road, Elizabethton, TN 37643
TELEPHONE:
Home - None Business
- 423-439-6971 Cell -
423-483-1799
E-Mail : pooleg@etsu.edu or twoinmath@charter.net Fax
: 423-439-8361
DISCIPLINE SPECIALIZATION: Matrix
Theory/Numerical Linear Algebra/Elementary Teacher Education
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY:
B. S. E. 1964 Emporia State
University Emporia, Kansas
M.S.
1966 Colorado State
University Fort Collins, Colorado
Ph.D.
1972 Texas Tech
University
Lubbock, Texas
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Emporia State
University Assistant
Professor 1972-75
Associate Professor
1975-79
North Carolina
State Visiting
Professor 1979-80
Emporia State
University Chairman/Professor 1980-83
Lamar
University
Chairman/Professor 1983-86
East Tennessee State
Univ
Chairman/Professor 1986-99
East Tennessee State
Univ
Professor
1999 to present
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American
Mathematical Society (AMS)
Mathematical
Association of America (MAA)
Society of
Industrial and Applied Mathematicians (SIAM)
National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Regular active
referee for mathematical journals
Regular active
reviewer for the Mathematical Reviews
Regular reviewer of
Mathematics texts and software materials
Former Mathematics Consulting
Editor for the Transactions, Kansas Academy of Sciences
Advisor to the
Select Committee on Higher Education for the state of Texas
Member of
Chancellor's (Tennessee Board of Regents) Ad Hoc Committee on
Developmental
Programs in Tennessee
UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES:
Emporia
State University (1972-83)
General
Education Council 3 yrs
Research
and Creativity Committee (Chairman) 2 yrs
Faculty
Senate 2 yrs
Arts
and Sciences Dean's Advisory Council 2 yrs
Arts
and Sciences Faculty Secretary 2 yrs
Academic
Affairs Committee 2 yrs
Honors
Program Committee 3 yrs
University
Computing Committee 3 yrs
Science
Education Committee 2 yrs
Emporia
State University Credit Union Board 2 yrs
Lamar University (1983-86)
Faculty
Development Leaves Committee (Sabbaticals)
Lamar
University Teacher Education Council 2 yrs
NCATE
Curriculum Evaluation Committee
Executive
Committee, Council of Academic Chairs
East
Tennessee State University (1986 - )
Search
Committee Member for Arts and Sciences Dean
Search
Committee Member for Director of Computer Center
Search
Committee Chair for Chair of History Department
Loaned
Executive Officer for United Way Program (2 yrs)
Faculty
Senator (8 yrs; current active member)
Executive
Committee Member for Faculty Senate (2yrs)
Chair
for the Council of Academic Chairs (Founding chair, 2 yrs)
Executive
Committee, Council of Academic Chairs (2yrs)
Quillen College of Medicine Admissions Committee Member (9
yrs)
Future
of Research Committee (2011 Vision Report)
President’s
Ad Hoc University Budget Committee (1991)
Advisory
Committee to NSF MATH CAPS Project (1986 –88)
NCATE
Self-Study Advisory Committee
General
Education Advisory Council (4 yr)
President's
Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Salary Inequities
President’s
Ad Hoc Committee on Staff Salary Inequities
Student
Affairs Research Advisory Committee
Teacher
Education Advisory Council (current)
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES:
Total Quality
Education Regional Seminar and Workshop Samford
University (April 1991)
Covey Leadership
Workshop Conference, East Tennessee State University (March 1992)
NSF Week-long
Workshop on Graphics Calculators and the Mandelbrot Set University of Tennessee
(May 92 - May 93)
NSF ATLAST Workshop
at the University of Maryland developing pedagogical software for Linear
Algebra (July 93)
NSF Strengthening and Assessing the Academic Majors
Association of American Colleges and Universities College of Charleston (March
1994)
NSF ATLAST Workshop at
San Diego State University developing pedagogical problems and software for Lin
Alg (June 94)
AAHE Academic Citizenship and the Role of Disciplines in
Systemic Reform, Amer. Assoc. for Higher Education Washington DC (November
1994)
NSF Week-long
Workshop on Mathematical Modeling Pellessippi State
Community College, Oak Ridge, TN (May 1995)
NSF ATLAST Workshop : Developing Special Tech Lesson Plans for Linear
Algebra, University of Washington (Aug 96)
NSF ATLAST Workshop : Developing Special Tech Lesson Plans for Linear
Algebra, San Diego State University (Jun 97)
NSF (AASCU) Conference on Mathematics Preparation of
Elementary Teachers, San Diego State University (Jun 2001)
NSF MET I Conference on the Preparation of Mathematics Teachers,
Washington DC (Nov 2001)
NSF (AASCU)
Conference on Mathematics Preparation of Elementary Teachers, San Diego State
University (Jun 2002)
CBMS and Exxon-Mobil Summit Conference on the Mathematics Education of
Teachers, Washington DC (Nov 2002)
NSF MET
II Conference on the Preparation of Mathematics Teachers, Washington
DC (Oct 2003)
NSF PMET Workshop at Appalachian State University in May
2004; Boone, NC. PMET = Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers.
Teacher Education
Leadership Conference, Tennessee, (April 2006)
NCTM
Meeting in St Louis (March 2006)
NCTM
Meeting in Atlanta (March 2007)
Georgia
Teachers Conference at Tuskeegee University (August
2007): Invited Speaker: The Evolution of K-6 Mathematics
NCTM
Meeting in Salt Lake City (April 2008)
Teacher
Educational Leadership Conference, Tucson, AZ
May 2008
NCTM
Meeting in Washington DC (April 2009)
SELECTED CONSULTING ACTIVITIES:
Menninger Foundation
(1966 Tornado Victim Research)
Sauder Industries,
Inc. (Software design for pressure vessel interfacing, 1978-83)
North Lyon County
School Board/Northern Heights (Computer science curriculum development, 1983)
ESU Credit Union
(Supplemental software development, 1982)
Texas Department of
Transportation (Load Displacement during emergency velocity reduction, 1986)
Orange Independent
School District (Mathematics curriculum modification, 1986)
Undergraduate
Mathematics Review Team for Three Private Church-related Kansas Colleges, 1988
SACS Review Team for
High Schools (Tennessee, 1990)
Review of Graduate
Mathematics Program at Western Carolina (1996)
Review Manuscripts
for Publishing Companies in Statistics, Abstract Algebra, and Linear Algebra,
1972-99.
SACS Review Team for
High Schools (Tennessee, 2000)
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDUCATION:
Taught
graduate courses in Group Theory, Matrix Theory, Differential Equations
(Theoretical and Numerical), Numerical Analysis, Numerical Linear Algebra,
Modeling Theory, Number Theory, Topology, Real
Analysis.
With
the assistance of other faculty and the support of the academic administration,
I developed Mathematics Laboratories at Emporia State University, Lamar
University, and East Tennessee State Univ.
Developed
the mathematics portion of an education program set up for the operators at the
Wolfcreek Nuclear Power Plant (Kansas) to satisfy the
NRC.
During my last year
at Emporia I served as ESU's advisor to the Kansas State Board of Education in
developing secondary mathematics certification requirements.
At both Emporia and Lamar I developed
special courses in Computer Literacy and Computer-aided Instruction for
pre-service and in-service teachers, both elementary and secondary levels.
In-service
Workshops for Elementary and Secondary teachers in Washington, Carter, and
Sullivan counties.
RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
·
I conduct in-service workshops for
county and city school systems for grades
K-12
· I assist my elementary education students in carrying out
Family Math Night at surrounding elementary schools Fall
and Spring
· I conduct Tennessee Workshops to help students pass Math
Content Praxis Exam for Secondary Teachers.
· PK-2 Two-week Workshop on Mathematics Investigation
Materials, June 2007 (THEC Grant)
· Eastman Summer Mathletes
Program for 3rd/4th Grade Teachers (five year project;
Summers 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011);
Workshop Leader
SELECTED ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS:
1972 "Berge's
Theorem for Infinite Tournaments" University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1973 "Convex
Regions which Cover Arcs of Constant Length" National AMS/MAA Section
meeting, Dallas, Texas
1974 "Solutions
to Singular Systems of Equations" Annual Kansas MAA Section meeting,
Ottawa, Kansas
1976 "Generalized Inverses and Least
Squares Problems" University of Missouri (invited talk)
1979 "The Worm
Problem of Leo Moser" North Carolina State University, Raleigh
1980
"Nonnegative Matrices whose Zero Patterns Are
Power Invariant" Georgia State University, Atlanta
1981
"Nonnegative Cone Containment Problems" University of South Carolina,
Columbia
1981 "The Role of Linear Algebra in the
Development of the Digital Computer" North Carolina State University,
Raleigh
1982 "The Role
of Linear Algebra in the Undergraduate Curriculum"
Annual Kansas MAA Section meeting, Emporia, Kansas
1983 "Research
Spawned by Matrix Iterative Analysis" Regional AMS meeting, Norman,
Oklahoma
1984 "The
Influence of Numerical Linear Algebra on the Development of the Computer"
Annual Texas MAA Section meeting, Tyler, Texas
1984
"Mathematics -- A Prestigious and Rewarding Career" Sabine Area
Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual banquet (Texas)
1984 "Research
Spawned by Matrix Iterative Analysis" Gatlinburg IX (International
Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra), Waterloo, Ontario
1984 "Projectionally Exposed Cones in Convex Programming
Problems" Gatlinburg IX, Waterloo, Ontario
1985 "Convex Programming"
Annual Texas MAA Section meeting, Galveston, Texas
1985 "Convex
Programming and Projectionally Exposed Cones"
Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Raleigh, NC
1985 "Projectionally Exposed Cones" Conference on Applied
Analysis in Aerospace, Industry and Medical Sciences, Houston, Texas
1986 "Convex
Programming" National AMS meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
1986 "The Worm
Problem" Annual Texas MAA Section meeting, Dallas, Texas
1986 "The Worm
Problem Revisited" Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
1987 "A
Geometric Analysis of Gaussian Elimination" SE Regional MAA Meeting,
Savannah, GA
1987 "Gaussian
Elimination: A Geometric Revelation" National SIAM Meeting, Denver, CO
1988
"Instability in Gaussian Elimination" University of Tennessee,
Chattanooga
1989
"Back-substitution error multipliers in Gaussian Elimination" Invited
Talk, Purdue University Computer Science Dept
1990 "Gaussian
Elimination: When is Scaling Beneficial?" and "The Rooks Pivot"
Auburn Matrix Theory Conference
1991 "Gaussian
Elimination: When is Scaling Beneficial?" "Back-substitution phase
error multipliers" "The Rooks Pivot" (Three presentations)
International SIAM Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1991 "Quality
Improvement Process in Higher Education: Isn't There a Better Way?"
Invited Talk: ETSU Meet the Faculty Lecture Series
1993 "Sign
potentially orthogonal matrices" Invited talk at the Eighth Annual Haifa
(Israel) Matrix Theory Meeting
1993 "The
Rook’s Pivoting Strategy" Invited talk at the Workshop on Nonnegative
Matrices in the Mathematical Sciences (Haifa)
1994 "Effects of fetal hippocampal tissue
transplants and removal of the transplants on water maze performance in hippocampectomized rats" 38th Annual Southeastern Psychological Association
1994 "Columnwise Gaussian Elimination" Southeast Conference
on Linear Algebra, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
1995 "Numerical
Evidence in Favor of the Rook's Pivot" Fifth Conference on the
International Linear Algebra Society, Georgia State University (August 1995)
1996
"The Rook’s Pivoting Strategy" Invited talk to the University of
North Carolina, Charlotte
2000
"The Rook's Pivoting Strategy" Invited
talk to Clemson University
2002 "The Maximum Number of Odd 2x2 Submatrices
in 0-1 Matrices" Invited Talk, Georgia
State University (March)
2002 "Two-sided and Same-sided Arcs in Moser's Worm
Problem" Invited Talk, University of
Illinois (April)
2002 "Pre and Post-service for Prospective Elementary
Teachers" Invited Talk, Southwest Virginia Elementary Principals'
Conference (March)
2002 Invited talk to the AASCU Meeting on Mathematics Teacher
Preparation, San Diego State University
2003 Plenary Speaker at the MET II Conference in Washington
DC on the Mathematics Education of Teachers (October 2003)
2004 "The Rook's Pivoting Strategy" Invited talk at Armstrong Atlantic State University
in Savannah, GA November 2004.
2007 Invited talk to Georgia Teachers
Conference at Tuskeegee University
, The Evolution of K-6 Mathematics
2007 On Division. K-6
Mathematics Talk. Regional Teachers Meeting. Morehead State University.
2007 Evolution of K-5 Mathematics talk at TMTA Meeting, Sept
2007 Fractions…again…again. I Finally Get It talk at TMTA Meeting
2007 Division.
Sullivan County Workshop for K-5 Teachers, Oct 2007
2008
Division of Fractions. Sullivan
County Workshop for 3-6 Teachers, Oct 2008.
SELECTED SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES (Most Funded):
1973 ESU Research
Grant recipient to engage in research at Texas Tech University on Generalized
Inverse Problems
1974 ESU Special
Summer Research Grant to engage in research on Generalized Inverses and Graph
Theory
1974 ESU Travel
Grant to engage in research at Texas Tech University on M-Matrices
1978 ESU Research
Grant to engage in research at North Carolina State University on MP Matrices
1979 Sabbatical leave
at North Carolina State University as Visiting Associate Professor of
Mathematics
1981 ESU Travel
Research Grant to engage in research at the Univ. of South Carolina on Matrix Monotonicity
1983 Update on
Nuclear Breeder Reactor Program, Argonne Laboratories, Idaho Falls
1984 Research travel
to the University of Missouri to work on the Projectionally
Exposed Cone Problem
1985 Johns Hopkins
Lecture Series on Matrix Theory by Charley Johnson
1986 Emergency
Economic Securities Act Grant for $56,000 to upgrade high school mathematics
teachers in Southeast Texas
1986 Co-recipient of
ALCOA Faculty Development Award for $5,000
1987
Numerical Linear Algebra Workshop with James Ortega, David Young and Robert Plemmons. University of Tenn.
1989 Co-recipient of
ETSU Research Graduate Assistant Award to work on Gaussian Elimination research
1990 Co-recipient of
$4200 research grant from ETSU to work on Gaussian Elimination
1991
Presidential-Grant-in-Aid recipient: $1000 (ETSU) Qualitative Matrix Analysis
Workshop (NSF) Georgia State University (Charley
Johnson)
1992
Presidential-Grant-in-Aid recipient: $1400 (ETSU) Sponsor research travel to
special Linear Algebra Year at the University of Minnesota
1995 Presidential-Grant-in-Aid
recipient: $1500 (ETSU) Sponsor research travel to Israel and France for Haifa
Matrix Analysis Conference
1995 Co-recipient of
RDC Grant for $5,880 "Improving the Accuracy of Computed solution of Large
Linear Systems in Parallel" (with L. Neal and G. Schaper)
1996 Recipient of
RDC Grant for $5,880 "Improving the Accuracy of Computed solution of Large
Linear systems in Parallel"
2001 ExxonMobil Grant for $3000. Retreat for
Improving Mathematics and Pedagogy for Prospective Elementary Teachers at East
Tennessee State and Western Carolina Universities
2002-07 NSF/ACCLAIM Grant for $8000 to enhance mathematics
education at TA Dugger Junior High School in
Elizabethton, TN ($8000 for each of
5 years)
PUBLICATIONS:
1. Poole, G. (1965, Spring).
A non-Archimedean ordered ring. Pentagon, 67-71.
2. Poole, G. & King, D. (1967,
December). Editorial note on between T1 and T2. American Mathematical Monthly, 74, 1241.
3. Poole, G. & Boullion,
T. (1970, December). Characterization of the matrix equation AX + BX = C.
Journal of Industrial Mathematics, 20, 91-95.
4. Poole, G. (1971, November). Integers and the sum of the factorials of their digits.
Mathematics Magazine, 44, 278-279.
5. Poole, G. and Boullion,
T. (1972, September). Weak spectral inverses which are
partial isometries. SIAM Journal of Applied
Mathematics, 23, 171-172.
6. Poole, G. & Reid, J. (1972,
November). Abelian groups which are quasi-injective over their endomorphism rings.
Canadian J. of Math., 24, 617-621.
7. Poole, G. & Boullion,
T. (1972, December). Berge's theorem for infinite
tournaments. Journal of Industrial Mathematics, 22, 39-43.
8. Poole, G. & Boullion,
T. (1972, December). The Drazin inverse for certain
power matrices. Journal of Industrial Mathematics, 22, 35-37.
9. Poole, G. & Gerriets,
J. (1973, March). Minimum covers for arcs of constant length. Bulletin of the
American Mathematical Society, 79, 462-463.
10. Poole, G. (1973, March). A graph theoretic approach to pseudoinverses.
The Texas Journal of Science, 24, 439-444.
11. Poole, G. (1973, Fall).
Geometry of minimum norm and least squares solutions to matrix equations.
Delta, 3, 12-17.
12. Gerriets,
J, & Poole, G. (1974, January). Convex regions which
cover arcs of constant length. American Mathematics Monthly, 81, 36-41.
13. Poole, G. (1974, January). An algebraic development of the real numbers. Emporia State University Press.
14. Poole, G. & Boullion,
T. (1974, October). A survey on M-matrices. SIAM
Review, 16, 418-427.
15. Poole, G. & Boullion,
T. (1975, May). The Drazin inverse
and a spectral inequality of Marcus, Minc, and Moyles. Journal of Approximation Theory, 15,
503-508.
16. Poole, G. (1975, July). Generalized M-matrices and applications. Mathematics of
Computation, 29, 903-910.
17. Singh, I., Poole, G., & Boullion, T. (1975, July). A class of Hessenberg matrices with known pseudoinverse
and Drazin inverse. Mathematics of
Computation, 29, 903-910.
18. Poole, G. (1977, April). A least
squares approximate solution to polynomial equations over the real numbers.
Mathematics Teacher, 70, 326-330.
19. Poole, G. & Barker, G. (1979). MP matrices. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 26,
165-174.
20. Downing, G. & Poole, G. (1979).
Basic arithmetic skills and applications. Iowa:
Kendall/Hunt.
21. Poole, G. (1981). Generalized
inverses of linear transformations [Review for Linear Algebra and Its
Applications]. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 37, 293-295.
22. Campbell, S. & Poole, G.
(1981). Computing nonnegative rank factorizations.
Linear Alg. and Its Applications, 35, 175-182.
23. Campbell, S. & Poole, G.
(1981). Convergent regular splittings
for nonnegative matrices. Linear and Multilinear
Algebra, 10, 63-73.
24. Poole, G. (1982). The worm problem of Leo Moser. Mathematical
Calendar. ROME Press.
25. Neumann, M., Poole, G., &
Werner, J. (1982). More on generalizations of matrix monotonicity. Linear Algebra and its Applications,
48, 413-435.
26. Stadelmaier,
Rose, Meyer, & Poole, G., (1982). Nonnegative matrices
with power invariant zero patterns. Linear Algebra and its Applications,
42, 23-29.
27. Poole, G. & Campbell, S.
(1982). Nonnegative cone containment problems. Linear
Algebra and its Applications, 43, 282-284.
28. Poole, G. (1985). Convex
programming and projectionally exposed cones. Proceedings of NASA Conference.
29. Barker, G., Laidacker,
M. & Poole, G.(1987, January). Projectionally exposed cones in
convex programming. SIAM Journal of Algebraic and Discrete
Methods,
8, 100-105.
30. Poole & Laidacker
(1988). Projectionally exposed cones in R3. Linear Algebra and its
Application, 111, 183-190.
31. Poole, G. & Neal, L. (1991). A
geometric analysis of Gaussian Elimination: Part I. Linear Algebra and its
Applications, 149, 249-272.
32. Neal, L. & Poole, G. (1992). A
geometric analysis of Gaussian Elimination: Part II. Linear Algebra and its
Applications, 173, 239-264.
33. Poole, G. & Neal, L. (1992).
Gaussian Elimination: When is Scaling beneficial? Linear Algebra and its
Applications, 162-164, 309-324.
34. Norwood, F., Poole, G., & Laidacker, M. (1992). The Worm Problem of
Leo Moser. Discrete and Computational Geometry, 7,
153-162.
35. Poole, G. & Neal, L. (2000).
The Rook's pivoting strategy. Computational and Applied Mathematics, 123 , 353-369. Special edition on Advances in
Numerical Analysis and Numerical Linear Algebra in the last
decade of the 20th
Century.
36. Nonneman,
A., Baisden, R., Poole, G., and Woodruff, M. Effect
of Transplant Removal on the Deficit in Water Maze Acquisition produced in Rats
by Fetal
Hippocampal
Transplants. Submitted to Brain Research Bulletin.
37. Norwood, R. and Poole, G
(2003). An improved upper bound for Leo Moser's Worm
Problem. Discrete and Computational Geometry, 29:409-417.
38. Norwood, R. and Poole, G
(2003). The number of 2x2 Odd Submatrices
in 0-1 Matrices. Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra and Its
Applications,
October, 2003.
39. Poole, Wetzel, Johnson
(2004). A smallest covers for convex unit arcs. Discrete & Computational Geometry. 32:141-147, 2004.
40. Norwood, R and Poole,
G. A criterion for Hadamard
matrices with circulant core. Journal of Linear and Multilinear
Algebra. To appear.
EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS:
Master's Degree Thesis: The
Stone-Cech and Wallman Compactifications.
Doctoral Thesis: Weak Spectral
Inverses (Generalized Inverse Theory).
MASTERS DEGREE STUDENTS:
Emporia:
John Reed Williams, Vector Spaces and Field Extensions, 1972.
Douglas Scott Kelsey, Sylow's Theorems, 1973.
Inderjit
Singh, Characterizations of Nil and Locally Nilpotent Ideals, 1973.
John Kennedy, The Structure of Abelian
Groups, 1974.
Linda Ingold Campbell, Relationships Between Special Classes of Matrix Transformations, 1974.
Crystal Hollingsworth, Generalized Inverses,
Calculations and Relations, 1977.
Sally Humes, Determining Eigenvalues for Real Matrices, 1983.
Lamar:
Emily Sue Commander, Interfacing Cones and Frusta in the Pressure
Vessel Industry, 1985.
Michele Askew, Theoretical Analysis of Column-wise Gaussian
Elimination, 1986.
Jean S. Rittenhouse, Matrix Iterative Analysis, 1986.
ETSU:
Mohammed Kouriabi (with L. Neal) Geometric Analysis
of Gaussian Elimination, 1989
Jane Kirshner West (with L. Neal)*,
Numerical Analysis of Column-wise Gaussian Elimination, 1991
Jennifer Hill*, Shattering Sets, 1992
Bernadine Cochran+, Matrix Factorizations 1997
Kevin Ratliff+, Cryptography: Analysis of Some Important Public-key Algorithms,
1999.
* Completed Ph.D.’s in Mathematics
+ Currently teaching at Junior Colleges
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