1. "Dealing with Infinite Dimensional Vector Spaces in Sophomore Linear Algebra," 80th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America at Huntingdon College in March, 2001. (Also available in PostScript.)
2. "Introductory Level Analysis: Synthesizing R, Rⁿ, Metric Spaces and Topological Spaces," 82nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the MAA, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, March 2003. (Also available in PostScript.)
3. "Some Graph, Digraph, and Mixed Graph Results Concerning Decompositions, Packings and Coverings," Joint AMS MAA Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2005.
4. Euler Tricentennial Presentation
5. "The Wright Brothers, Bernoulli, and a Surprise from Upper East Tennessee": PDF, PS.
6. The Shape of Space PDF and PostScript.
7. Non-Euclidean Geometry, highschool version: PDF.
8. Triple Systems from Graph Decompositions (in PowerPoint), AMS Fall Southeastern Meeting, Huntsville, AL, October 25, 2008.

1. Special Relativity Notes for Great Ideas in Science: PDF and PS.
2. Notes for the "Meaning of Mathematics" are available in PDF and PS formats.
3. Notes on "Euclidean Geometry" are available in PDF and PS formats.
4. Notes on "NonEuclidean Geometry" are available in PDF and PS formats.
5. Notes on "Infinity" are available in PDF and PS formats.
6. Introduction to Biological Evolution: PDF and PostScript.
7. Evolution as Optimization: PDF and PostScript.
8. Natural Selection and the Fundamental Theorem: PDF and PostScript.
9. Adaptive Topographies: PDF and PostScript.
10. Supervised Teaching (MATH 5019) introductory notes: Teaching - The Mechanics.

After about 20 years of effort, my interest in astronomy is finally taking on a tiny bit of a professional air! I have given the following poster presentations at meetings of the American Astronomical Society:

1. Visualizing the Big Bang: An Introduction to Topology and 3-Manifolds for Undergraduates At the 194th Meeting in Chicago, IL in June 1999.
2. A Mathematically Sound Introduction to Relativity for Math, Physics and Astronomy Majors at the 195th Meeting in Atlanta, GA during January 2000.

I have developed a few planetarium shows and presented them at the ETSU Planetarium (of which I am the codirector). I have created "virtual planetarium shows" of each. They include:

1. "The Milky Way and Beyond!"
2. "Mars: A Century of Exploration"
3. "Relativity and Black Holes"
4. "Dinosaurs: Their Lives, Their Deaths, and Their Evolution!"
5. "The Wright Brothers: A Centennial Tribute." Of related interest is my presentation on "The Wright Brothers, Bernoulli, and a Surprise from Upper East Tennessee": PDF, PS.
6. "Albert Einstein - A Centennial Celebration of His Miraculous Year."
7. The Space Age Turns 50 - Ideas of Spaceflight from the Early 20th Century."
8. 800 Million Miles from Home - Cassini at Saturn (a planetarium show given January 20, 2005), COMING SOON!
9. Our Universe - A Guided Tour (a planetarium show for the Great Ideas in Science class), COMING SOON!

I have given a couple of different presentations at the open houses of the Harry Powell Observatory. They include:

1. "The Shape of Space"
2. "Mars, Here We Come!"

Here are some simple webpages with photos of some astronomical events observed from Johnson City:

1. Though the weather wasn't very cooperative, I did mount an "expedition" to the local Kroger parking lot to view the recent transit of Venus. Here's some details.
2. The ETSU 2005 solar eclipse "expedition" also was plagued by clouds. Here's details on this one.

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Last updated: October 22, 2008.