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      mdedeo@unf.edu - http://www.unf.edu/~mdedeo/
Michelle R. DeDeo
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
4567 St. John's Bluff Road South
Jacksonville, FL 32224
Bldg. 14 / Rm. 2728
904-620-32653

General Qualifications
Over fifteen years of university experience teaching a variety of students and subjects. 
Have strength in combining students with technology. 
Familiar with all phases and aspects of university processes. 
Have served on a variety of academic and administrative committees. 

Education

University of California - San Diego
Department of Mathematics (1993-1998)
[Department ranked #5 by the National Research Council in 1998.]
  • 1998 - Ph. D. in Mathematics - Number Theory
  • 1996 - M.A. in Applied Mathematics 
California State University - Los Angeles 
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (1989-1993)
  • 1993 - M.S. in Mathematics - Complex Analysis
  • 1991 - B. S. in Mathematics with General Education Honors

Experience
August 1998 
           - Present

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

August 1993 
       - June 1998

 
 
 
 
 

 

January 1997
      - June 1998
 
 
 
 

 


 

January 1994
      - June 1997
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  January 1991 
      - June 1993


University of North Florida 
Associate Professor (as of August 2005)
Assistant Professor (as of August 2001)

Visiting Assistant Professor (August 1998 - May 2001)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
4567 St. John's Bluff Road, South
Jacksonville, FL 32224
904-620-2653
  • Teach full load with classes of 35 to 140 students
  • Incorporate technology in the classroom with TI-83, 85, 89 & 91 calculators
  • Active on multiple departmental and university-wide committees
  • Present seminar talks

University of California - San Diego
Teaching Assistant 
Department of Mathematics
Mail Code 0112
La Jolla, CA 92037
858-534-3590

  • Assisted every quarter classes of 50 to 160 students.
  • Classes ranged from Harvard and Vector Calculus to Complex Analysis and ODE. 
  • Used TI-83 and TI-85 calculators as well as Mathematica and Matlab
University of San Diego
Lecturer 
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
5998 Acala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
619-273-4600
  • Taught one class of either Harvard or Multivariate calculus per semester to classes of 30 students.
  • Used the TI-82 extensively.
San Diego City College
Adjunct Lecturer 
Department of Mathematics
1313 12th Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
619-230-2400
  • Taught two classes per semester (one in summer) to classes of 30 to 50 students. 
  • Class topics ranged from Intermediate Algebra and Calculus to Introduction to Statistics. 
  • Programmed the TI-82 extensively for use in the Statistics course.
California State University - Los Angeles 
Teaching Associate 
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032
323-343-2150
  • Taught two classes per quarter of 30 to 50 students.
  • Classes included Math for Elementary Teachers and College Algebra.
  • Also taught at-risk freshmen mathematics and college skills during summer bridge.

Organizations
Current

 
 

1995-1997

1995-1997
 
 

 

1990-1993

 
Memberships
American Assn. of University Women, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Assn. of America, Assn. for Women in Mathematics, Golden Key Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
UCSD Graduate Student Assn. - V.P. Academic Affairs
UCSD Academic and Administrative Committees
Graduate Council, Senior Vice Chancellor Search Committee, Enrollment Planning Committee, Student Health Insurance Committee, Founder of the UCSD Graduate Student Dental Insurance Plan
ACM- CSULA Chapter President 
[World's oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society.]

Awards, Fellowships &
Service
2004-2007
2001-2007
2004-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005
2004-2006
2003-2006
Summer 2004

2003-2004
2002-2004
2002-2004
2002-2004

Summer 2003

Summer 2002
2000-2004 (elected)
1998-2004

1997-1998
1996-1997
1993-1995
1991-1993

 
 
UNF Departmental Academic Resource Committee (Chair)
UNF Departmental Coordinator for College Algebra
UNF University Appeals Committee (Member)
UNF COAS Faculty Association (President)
UNF COAS Faculty Association (Vice President)
UNF-UFF (Treasurer)
Masters Thesis Advisor for James Griffin and Dennis Perusse
UNF Research Grant Recipient
Topic: Research on Symplectic Maps and Generalizations of the Toda Lattice
UNF COAS Ad-Hoc Comm. on Compression and Inversion (Chair)
UNF Academic Standards Committee (Member)
UNF Departmental Co-ordinator for Finite Mathematics
UNF Departmental Search Committee (Member)

UNF Research Grant Recipient

Topic: Research on Radon Transforms over k-dimensional rings
Member of the WJCT Community Advisory Board 
Faculty-Student Mentor Program 
Member; Chair of Awards Committee(2001-02)
American Assn. of Univ. Women     American Dissertation Fellow
SDCC Honor Society                       Excellence in Teaching Award
Univ. of California-San Diego          San Diego Fellowship
California State Univ.-Los Angeles Graduate Fellowship

Publications
PUBLISHED:

"The Spectrum of Platonic Graphs over Finite FieldsM. DeDeo, Dominic Lanphier and Marvin Minei, Discrete Mathematics 307 (2007) pp.1074-1081..

"An Introduction to Symplectic Maps and Generalizations of the Toda Lattice" M. DeDeo and Elinor Velasquez.  Congr. Numer.  169 (2004), 127-139..

"Radon transforms over the k-dimensional space of Integers modulo n" M. DeDeo and Elinor Velasquez. SIAM J. Discrete Math 18, No. 3, pp. 472–478

"Generalized Kloosterman sums over Rings of Order 2r " M. DeDeo. Congr. Numer. 165 (2003), 65--75.

"Zeta Functions of Heisenberg Graphs over Finite Rings" M. DeDeo, M. Martinez, A. Medrano, M. Minei, H.M. Stark, and A. Terras. Theory and applications of special functions, 165--183, Dev. Math., 13, Springer, New York, 2005.

"Spectra of Heisenberg Graphs over Finite Rings" M. DeDeo, M. Martinez, A. Medrano, M. Minei, H.M. Stark, and A. Terras. PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, May 24 - 27, 2002, Wilmington, NC, USA pp. 215-222.

"Non-Ramanujancy of Euclidean Graphs over the Ring of Integers modulo 2r " M. DeDeo. Discrete Mathematics 265 (2003) pp.45-57.

"An introduction to the Radon transform over k-dimensional space of Integers modulo n" M. DeDeo and Elinor Velasquez. Congr. Numer. 156 (2002), 201--209.  

"Improving Pass Rates in Mathematics Using Interactive Computer Software" M. DeDeo. In J. A. Chambers (ed.), Selected papers from the Twelfth National Conference on College Teaching and Learning 2001 (pp. - ). Jacksonville, FL: Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
ACCEPTED: "On the Ramanujancy of Heisenberg Garphs of order four" with Vincent Dang and Yang Ge accepted by Congressus Numerantium.
IN PROGRESS:
"Symplectic Maps and Generalizations of the Toda Lattice" M. DeDeo and Elinor Velasquez

DISSERTATIONS:
Graphs over the Ring of Integers modulo 2r, M. DeDeo, Ph. D. Thesis, U.C.S.D., 1998.
Analytic Functions on the Annulus, M. DeDeo, M. S. Thesis, C.S.U.L.A., 1993.


Selected Talks

January 2007
January 2006
January 2005

January 2004
January 2003 
January 2002
January 2001
January 2000


December 1997

 

August 1997
 

March 1997
Feb./March 1996


 
American Mathematical Society Joint Meetings
Incorporating Software in College Algebra: Five Years Later
Ethonomathematics: Fear or Fusion

Symplectic Maps and Generalizations of the Toda Lattice
An Applied Approach to Upper Level Undergraduate Mathematics: Incorporating Applications in the Curriculum.
Radon transforms over the k-dimensional space of Integers modulo n
Putting "College" back into College Algebra
Generalized Kloosterman sums over the Ring of Integers mod 2r
Graphs over the Ring of Integers mod 2r
University of San Diego Seminar
A Friendly Introduction to Wavelets
U. C. - Berkeley - Women in Number Theory Conference
Heisenberg & Euclidean Graphs over the Ring of Integers mod 2

U. C. - San Diego Number Theory Seminar
Kloosterman sums over the Ring of Integers mod 2
Euclidean Graphs over the Ring of Integers mod 2r , Part I/II
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