{"id":2923,"date":"2010-12-02T15:21:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T19:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2010-12-02T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T19:21:42","slug":"keith-mellinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2010\/12\/02\/keith-mellinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Mellinger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Mellinger, associate professor and chair of mathematics, and a colleague from Virginia Tech, were presented the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award at the annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America in Pittsburgh in August. The award recognizes outstanding expository articles in mathematics. Mellinger was honored for the article, “Kirkman’s  Schoolgirls Wearing Hats and Walking Through Fields of Numbers,” that appeared in the February 2009 edition of Mathematics Magazine. <\/em>Read about the award and see the article at http:\/\/mathdl.maa.org\/mathDL\/22\/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=1355<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>

In addition, Mellinger published two papers, “Classes of Permutation Arrays in Finite Projective Spaces” in the International Journal of Information and Coding Theory, <\/em>and “On the Number of k<\/em>-gons in Finite Projective Planes” in Note di Matematica. <\/em>In addition, Dr. Mellinger gave several talks, “On Blocking Semiovals Containing Conics” at the Discrete Mathematics Seminar at the University of Delaware; “Kirkman’s Schoolgirls Wearing Hats and Walking through Fields of Numbers” at a departmental colloquium at California State University, Fresno; “Coding, Cryptography and Conics: Using What They Know to Introduce Research” at a faculty seminar at CSU Fresno; and “Applying the Stuff We Like: Blocking Semiovals and Cryptology” at a discrete mathematics seminar at Virginia Commonwealth University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keith Mellinger, associate professor\u00a0and chair of mathematics, and a colleague from Virginia Tech, were presented the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award at the annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America\u00a0in Pittsburgh in August. The award recognizes outstanding expository articles in mathematics. Mellinger was honored for the article, \u201cKirkman\u2019s \u00a0Schoolgirls Wearing Hats and Walking Through Fields of Numbers,\u201d that appeared in the February 2009 edition of Mathematics Magazine. <\/em>Read\u00a0about the award and see\u00a0the article at http:\/\/mathdl.maa.org\/mathDL\/22\/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=1355<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition, Mellinger published two papers, \u201cClasses of Permutation Arrays in Finite Projective Spaces\u201d in the International Journal of Information and Coding Theory, <\/em>and \u201cOn the Number of k<\/em>-gons in Finite Projective Planes\u201d in Note di Matematica. <\/em>In addition, Dr. Mellinger gave several talks, \u201cOn Blocking Semiovals Containing Conics\u201d at the Discrete Mathematics Seminar at the University of Delaware; \u201cKirkman\u2019s Schoolgirls Wearing Hats and Walking through Fields of Numbers\u201d at a departmental colloquium at California State University, Fresno; \u201cCoding, Cryptography and Conics: Using What They Know to Introduce Research\u201d at a faculty seminar at CSU Fresno; and \u201cApplying the Stuff We Like: Blocking Semiovals and Cryptology\u201d at a discrete mathematics seminar at Virginia Commonwealth University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5991,"featured_media":2925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[319,403,60],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-department-of-mathematics","tag-faculty","tag-kmelling","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}