Joseph A. Gallian, Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Professor of Mathematics


Education: B.A. Slippery Rock 1966, M.A. Kansas 1968, Ph.D. Notre Dame 1971.

Employment: Notre Dame 1971-72; U. Minnesota Duluth 1972-present.

Honors: MAA President 2007-2009; 2003 CASE and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Minnesota Professor of the Year Award; 2002 CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research) Fellow Award (Recognizes CUR members who have demonstrated sustained excellence in research with undergraduates); Mathematical Assoc. of Amer. (MAA) Second Vice President 2002-2004; MAA Polya Lecturer 1999-2001; UMD College of Science and Engineering Anderson Scholar/Teacher Award, 2000; MAA Trevor Evans Award for Exposition, 1996; MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching 1993; U. Minnesota System Continuing Education and Extension Distinguished Teaching Award 1991; U. Minnesota, Duluth Blehart Distinguished Teaching Award 1984; MAA Allendoerfer Award for Exposition 1977; U. Minnesota System Morse Award for Contributions to Undergraduate Education 1976 (All teaching awards listed are career awards chosen by faculty committees); named by a Duluth newspaper as among "100 Great Duluthians of the 20th Century;" the College Mathematics Journal published an interview of me and had my photo on the cover.

Books: Contemporary Abstract Algebra, 6th ed, Houghton Mifflin, 2002; For All Practical Purposes, W.H. Freeman, (coauthor), 7th ed., 2006; Principles and Practices of Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, (coauthor), 1997; Proceedings of the Conference on Summer Undergraduate Mathematics Research Programs, Editor, American Mathematical Society, 2000; Proceedings of the Conference on Promoting Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (editor), American Mathematical Society, 2007

Articles: 100 (journals include: J. Algebra, J. Combinatorial Theory, Discrete Applied Math., Discrete Math., ACM Computing Surveys, J. Graph Theory, Math. Zeitschrift, Proceedings AMS, Canadian J. Math., Amer. Math. Monthly, Math. Magazine, Math. Intelligencer, J. Chemical Ed., Inter. J. Applied Engineering, College Math. J., Math Horizons, Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry); Supervised over 130 papers written by undergraduate students published in mainstream journals www.d.umn.edu/~jgallian/progbib.html.

Grants: 32 years from National Science Foundation; 22 years from National Security Agency; two years from Minnesota Humanities Commission. Total: $3,186,912


Invited Addresses: 19 at national meetings; 56 at MAA Section meetings; over 200 at colleges and universities; 12 minicourses at national meetings; 22 Project NExT workshops.

Service: National coordinator for Mathematics Awareness Month 2003; served on 40 national committees (chair of 10); Co-director of Project NExT 1998--present; Associate Editor Math. Mag. 1981-1985; Associate Editor Amer. Math. Monthly 1992-2007; Associate Editor MAA OnLine 1997-present; advisory board Math Horizons 1993-present; member of editorial board for AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics; Council on Undergraduate Research Councilor 1989-1998; Director/co-director of 5 conferences; Chair, Mathematics and Computer Science Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research; referee for 40 journals; reviewer for NSF and Research Council of Canada and the Australian Research Council; external evaluator for six departments.

Misc.: Articles about my work have appeared in the Washington Post (twice), St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Winnipeg Free Press, Baltimore Evening Sun , Orlando Sentinel, Science News (twice), Chemistry & Engineering News, Nashua Sunday Telegraph, Fairmont Sentinel, Superior Evening Telegraph, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Selected Publications:
1. A dynamic survey of graph labeling, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 5 (2007) \#DS6, 180 pages.
2. Hamiltonian cycles and paths in Cayley graphs and digraphs--a survey (with S. Curran), Discrete Math., 156 (1996) 1-18.
3. Error detection methods ACM Computing Surveys 28 (1996) 504-517.
4. Groups with anti-symmetric mappings (with M. Mullin), Archiv der Math., 65 (1995) 273-280.
5. The classification of minimal non-prime-power order groups (with D. Moulton), Archiv der Math. , 59 (1992) 521-524.
6. Harmonious groups (with R. Beals, P. Headley and D. Jungreis), J. Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 56 (1991) 223-238.
7. On the Hughes conjecture, Journal of Algebra, 34 (1975) 54-63.
8. The Hp-problem for groups with certain central factors cyclic, Proceeding Amer.Math. Soc., 42 (1974) 39-41.

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