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Professional Activities
- “Passionate Practice-3 Collectors, Their Collections and Stories,” McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 2011.
- “MIMB II,” international traveling show of artist’s books, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 2011-13. USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, South America (www.mimb.org) catalog.
- “Then and Now-Archie Bray Foundation 60th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition,” Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Mont., 2011.
- “Archie Bray Foundation 60th Anniversary Auction,” Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Mont., 2011. www.archiebrayfoundation.org/auction
- “Kirk Mangus, Linda Hoffines, Floyd Gump,” Lakeside Gallery, West Michigan City, Ind,. 2011.
The International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2011 conference was attended by more than 3,000 mathematicians and scientists from the international community. The conference highlighted the most recent advances in applied mathematics, while demonstrating applicability to science, engineering and industry. Increased interest by the applied mathematics community in the field of liquid crystals is leading to new collaborations with scientists in related disciplines, leading to a new understanding of liquid crystal-based phenomena in areas such as quantum optics, cellular biology and defect driven self assembly of complex soft materials.
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Chemical Physics, presented “Motors Based on Shape Change” and “Nonlinear Diffusion on a Sphere” as parts of a mini-symposium titled “Advances in Liquid Crystals” at the “International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2011),” in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on July 20, 2011. Palffy-Muhoray also organized the two-part mini-symposium, “Thematic Minisymposia: Liquid Crystals,” at the ICIAM 2011 on July 22, 2011.
Hiroshi Yokoyama, Liquid Crystal Institute, presented the opening lecture, “Mathematical Aspects of Liquid Crystal Research: Order Parameters and the Existence of Singularities,” as part of the “Thematic Minisymposia: Liquid Crystals” mini-symposium at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 22, 2011.
Xiaoyu Zheng, Mathematical Sciences, presented, “Nonlinear Diffusion on a Sphere,” as part of the two-part mini-symposium he co-organized titled, “Advances in Liquid Crystals” at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 20, 2011.
Eugene Gartland, Mathematical Sciences, Fulvio Bisi, Epifanio Virga, gave an invited lecture, “Phase and Bifurcation Analysis of a Mean-Field Model for Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals,” at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on July 21, 2011.
Gregory Smith, School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences, was recently granted the status of Fellow by the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives, August 2011.
Pratim Datta and Al Guiffrida, Management and Information Systems, presented, “Organizers and Editors” at the “Second Annual International Symposium on Sustainable Value Chains” in Cleveland, Ohio, June 17-18, 2011.
Publications
Richard Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, "In Search of te Lapa: A Navigational Enigma in Vaeakau-Taumako, Southeastern Solomon Islands." Journal of the Polynesian Society. 120.1 (2011): 57-70.
Dr. John Hoornbeek, Political Science, recently published Water Pollution Policies and the American States: Runaway Bureaucracies or Congressional Control? Albany, N.Y.: State University New York Press, 2011.
Richard Ferdig, Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences, Cavanaugh, C., edited “Lessons learned from virtual schools: Experiences and recommendations from the field” published by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, Vienna, Va., 2011.