Zhi-Hong Chen
  1. From May 6 to May 26, 2004, Dr. Chen and two students, Michael Winters and Jonathan McCullongh took a research trip to China. This research is about the training and education of computer science, software engineering, and IT in China. They visited South China University of Technology, JiNan University, Guangzhou University, and FuZhou university in P.R. China. This research project was funded by the Freeman Foundation.
  2. On May 13, 2004, Dr Chen gave a lecture on "Catlin Reduction Method on Spanning Eulerian Graphs" at Fuzhou university. Fuzhou, P.R. China.
  3. Chen recently published two papers:

    (1). Eulerian subgraphs in 3-edge-connected graphs and Hamiltonian Line Graphs, (with H.-J. Lai etc), J. of Graph Theory (2003) 308--319.

    (2). A Tool For understanding Multi-language Program Dependencies}, (with Panos Linos, etc), 11th International Workshop on Program Comprehension, May 10--11 2003 IEEE, 64-72

  4. Chen gave a talk on "Eulerian Subgraphs containing given vertices or edges", at AMS 2003 Spring Central Section Meeting, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, April 4-6, 2003
  5. On invitiaon, Dr. Chen visited the JiNan University and South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China from December 10, 2001 to January 8, 2002. He gave several lectures at the both universities and worked on a joint research project with Dr. Luo, Weiqi, vice president at JiNan University.
  6. Dr. Chen has been invited to serve as a (outside) member of a Ph.D Committee of a Ph.D student of the Department of Mathematics, at West Virginia University. The student's Ph.D Dissertation Defense will be on Friday, April 19, 2002.
  7. Chen published a paper "Nowhere Zero Flows in the Line Graphs" (with H.-J. Lai, H.-Y. Lai), Discrete Mathematics 230 (2001) 133-141
  8. Chen presented the paper "An s-Hamiltonian Line Graph Problem" at the 36th Midwest Graph Theory Conference, Oakland University, Michigan, October 13, 2001
Ankur Gupta
  1. Ankur is expecting to defend his PhD thesis at Duke University on August 3rd, 2007.
Panagiotis K. Linos
  1. Dr. Linos served as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Special Issue on Software Maintenance and Evolution published in Vol. 31, No. 10, October 2005.
  2. Panos Linos presented a joined paper (with Jon Sorenson) entitled “EPICS: A Service Learning Program at Butler University” at the Frontiers of Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, Indiana, October 19-22, 2005.
  3. Prof. Linos attended the NSF Workshop on Teaching Software Testing at the Florida Institute of Technology during February 3-6, 2005 in Melbourne Florida.
  4. Dr. Linos received a HAC research grant entitled “Measuring the Complexity of Multi-language Software in the .NET Environment” 2005-06 ($7,600).
  5. Dr. Linos gave an invited talk entitled “The Challenge of Maintaining Multi-language Multi-paradigm Software”, in the Computer Science department at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan on January 20, 2005 as part of their Computing Colloquium Series.
  6. Prof. Linos gave an invited talk entitled “A Research Framework for Software Analysis and Visualization Tools”, in the Computer Science department at IUPUI, Indianapolis on January 28, 2005.
  7. Panos Linos served as the general chair of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance held in Chicago during Sept. 11-14th 2004.
  8. Dr. Linos visited FAMU during June 2004 and served as a reviewer of their new Software Engineering Master's program and a proposed Ph.D. program.
  9. Panos Linos participated in an NSF Software Engineering Curriculum Workshop during July 12-15 2004 organized at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The primary objective of the workshop was to help with the development of new software engineering programs.
  10. Prof. Linos participated in an NSF grant review panel on March 17th, 2003 in Arlington Virginia (for NSF/CISE/C-CR/SEL).
  11. Prof. Linos presented a joint paper at the IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension, May 2003, Portland, Oregon (Linos, P., Chen, Z, Berrier, S and O'Rourke, B., A Tool For Understanding Multi-language Program Dependencies, IWPC 2003.)
  12. Prof. Linos presented a joint paper at ITiCSE 2003 (Innovation and Technology In Computer Science Education) Conference, June 2003, Thessaloniki, Greece (Linos, P., Herman, S., and Lally, J., A Service-Learning Program For Computer Science And Software Engineering, ITiCSE 2003.)
  13. Prof. Linos visited the University of Waterloo in Canada on February 14th 2003, where he served as an external examiner for Ph.D. candidate Kamran Sartipi’s final defense.
  14. Prof. Linos has been invited to serve as a member of the following international committees:
    • General Chair for the IEEE International Software Maintenance Week Multi-Conference during September 2004, in Chicago Illinois. This event will include the coordination of two major conferences (ICSM2004 and METRICS2004) and five collocated workshops.
    • Steering Committee Member for the International IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension 2003 in Portland, Oregon, May 2003.
    • Program Committee Member for the IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2003.
    • Program Committee Member for the International IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension 2003 in Portland, Oregon, May 2003.
    • Program Committee Member for the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2003.
Jon Sorenson
  1. Jon will present two papers ("The Pseudosquares Prime Sieve" and "Fast Bounds on the Distribution of Smooth Numbers" with Scott Parsell) and one poster ("Computing Prime Harmonic Sums" with Eric Bach of UW-Madison) at ANTS VII in Berlin, Germany, July 23-28, 2006.
  2. Jon is co-organizer, with Scott Parsell (Mathematics and Actuarial Science) of a Special Session on Number Theory at the AMS Sectional Meeting at Notre Dame, April 8-9, 2006.
  3. Jon will give three lectures at the Summer School on "Computational Number Theory and Applications to Cryptography" at the University of Wyoming, June 19-23, 2006.
  4. Jon participated in a Number Theory Inspired by Cryptography workshop at the Banff International Research Station, Alberta Canada, November 5-10, 2005; Jon gave a talk on "Fast algorithms for bounding the distribution of smooth integers" there on November 7th.
  5. The paper "An Honors Course on Alan Turing" was published in ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Inroads, volume 37, number 4, December 2005, pages 103-106.
  6. The paper "EPICS: A Service Learning Program at Butler University", coauthored by Jon and Panos Linos, was presented by Panos at the IEEE Frontiers in Education conference on October 21st, 2005, in Indianapolis.
  7. The paper "Modular exponentiation via the explicit chinese remainder theorem" coauthored by Daniel J. Bernstein (UIC) and Jon, was accepted for publication in Mathematics of Computation. (See here the list of accepted papers.) It should appear in print sometime in 2006 or 2007.
  8. Jon gave invited talks on "The Pseudosquares Prime Number Sieve" at both the Centre for Information Security and Cryptography at the University of Calgary on March 18th, 2005, and the University of Wisconsin on May 23rd, 2005.
  9. Jon attended the 2005 National EPICS Conference at the University of Wisconsin, May 24-26, 2005.
  10. Jon participated in a year-long Faculty Workshop sponsored by Butler's Center for Faith and Vocation for 2004-2005.
  11. Jon presented a poster on "Lehmer's Algorithms for Very Large Numbers" at ANTS VI, June 13-18, 2004, University of Vermont. The abstract for this poster was published in SIGSAM Bulletin, Volume 38, Number 3, September 2004 Issue 149.