Swenson College of Science and Engineering

Research and Outreach in SCSE

This is a list of current research and outreach activities in the College. See the links below for more information on faculty research activities.

Dalibor Froncek, associate professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, presented a talk “Fair incomplete tournaments with odd number of teams” at Thirty- eighth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing in Boca Raton, FL

Richard Gran, assistant professor, and Alec Habig, associate professor, Department of Physics, published "Search for neutral Q-balls in Super-Kamiokande II" as part of the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration in Physics letters B (Short Communication) vol. 647, p. 18-22 (29 March 2007).

Jay Austin, assistant professor, Department of Physics, and Steven Colman, Director of LLO and professor, Department of Geological Sciences, published, "Lake Superior summer water temperatures are increasing more rapidly than regional air temperatures: A positive ice-albedo feedback" in Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 34, p. L06604 (2007). This paper has been chosen as both an "editor's Highlights" and "Journal Highlights" paper by the American Geophysical Union. Jay Austin also gave interviews to WTIP radio (on 3/30 and 4/2) on the recent rapid warming of Lake Superior.

Joe Gallian, professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, gave two plenary addresses at the Iowa Section meeting of the Mathematical Association of America on April 13 and 14.

Faculty members in SCSE are involved in these University-related organizations:

• Center for Economic Development
  
• Center forFreshwater Research and Policy
  
• Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute (GLMRI)
  
• Laboratory for Intelligent Systems
  
• Large Lakes Observatory
  
• Minnesota Sea Grant
  
• Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI)
  
• Northland Advanced Transportation Systems Research Laboratory (NATSRL)
  
• Olga Lakela Herbarium
  
• Visualization and Digital Imaging Lab (VDIL)
  

   

Also, see what research is going on in the individual departments:

• Chemical Engineering
  
• Computer Science
  
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
• Geological Sciences
  
• Physics