Brian Dean
Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Email: bjdean@salisbury.edu
Office: Henson 126
Fall 2009 Office Hours:  Mon. 1-2, Tues. 9-10 and 1-2, Wed. 9-10, Thurs. 12-1, or by appointment

Fall 2009 Courses

MATH 202:  Calculus II
        Section 002:  MTuWF 10-10:50, Henson 111
        Course Overview 
        Syllabus (including Schedule and Supplemental Problems) 

        Practice Midterm 1    Solutions
        Practice Midterm 2    Solutions
        Practice Midterm 3    Solutions  (Note: #1(a) is from 8.2, which was covered on your 2nd midterm and won't be on the 3rd)

        Midterm 1 Solutions
        Midterm 2 Solutions

MATH 310:  Calculus III
        Section 001:  MWF 12-12:50, Henson 123;  Tu 12-12:50, Henson 115
        Course Overview
        Syllabus (including Schedule and Supplemental Problems)  (Updated Nov. 20) 

        Practice Midterm 1    Solutions
        Practice Midterm 2    Solutions
        Practice Midterm 3    Solutions

        Midterm 1 Solutions
        Midterm 2 Solutions
 

MATH 140:  College Algebra and Trigonometry
        Section 001:  MTuWF 2-2:50, Henson 111
        Course Overview
        Syllabus (including Schedule and Assignments)   (Updated Nov. 18)

        Supplemental Instruction for MATH 140-001:
            SI Leader:  John Norman (jn47989@students.salisbury.edu)
            SI Sessions:  Mon. 7-8 p.m., Henson 111;  Tues. 7-8 p.m., Henson 113;  Wed. 7-8 p.m., Henson 111

        Practice Midterm 1    Solutions
        Practice Midterm 2    Solutions
        Practice Midterm 3    Solutions  (Note: #1 is from 6.7 and 6.8, which were covered on your 2nd midterm and won't be on the 3rd)

        Midterm 1 Solutions
        Midterm 2 Solutions
 

Past Courses Taught at SU

MATH 100:  College Algebra:  A Modeling Approach  (description)
MATH 140:  College Algebra and Trigonometry (description)
MATH 160:  Introduction to Applied Calculus  (description)
MATH 201:  Calculus I  (description)
MATH 202:  Calculus II  (description)
MATH 210:  Introduction to Discrete Mathematics  (description)
MATH 306:  Linear Algebra  (description)
MATH 310:  Calculus III  (description)

Academic Experience

Salisbury University, Assistant Professor:  2008-present
Salisbury University, Lecturer:  2006-2008
University of Rochester, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2004-2006

Education

Johns Hopkins University:  Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2004  (Advisor:  Dr. William Minicozzi)
Johns Hopkins University:  M.A. in Mathematics, 2002
University of Notre Dame:  B.S. in Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa inductee, 1999

Memberships/Committees/Service

Faculty Senate Long Range Academic Planning Committee:  2008-10 (Chair 2008-09)
Henson Seminar Committee:  since 2008
Advisor, SU Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon (National Mathematics Honor Society):  since 2008
Eastern Shore High School Math Contest Committee:  Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, since 2006
Mathematics Tenure-track Search Committee:  Fall 2008
Presenter, Section NExT Session, MAA Section Meeting:  MD-DC-VA section of Mathematical Association of America, Nov. 2008
        Topic: Technology in the Classroom
Mathematics Lecturer Search Committee:  Summer 2008
Moderator, 2008 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR):  Apr. 2008
Abstract Reviewer, 2008 NCUR:  Dec. 2007
Member of Mathematical Association of America (MAA):  since 2004
Member of American Mathematical Society (AMS):  since 1999

Publications

Are seven-game baseball playoffs fairer for the team with home-field advantage?
        Preprint, submitted to The College Mathematics Journal.

Embedded minimal disks with prescribed curvature blowup
        Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 134, (2006), 1197---1204.

A generalization of Rado's Theorem for almost graphical boundaries
        Joint with G. Tinaglia, Math. Zeit., 251, (2005), 849---858.

Compact embedded minimal surfaces of positive genus without area bounds
        Geom. Dedicata, 102, (2003), 45---52.

Some Results on Stable Compact Embedded Minimal Surfaces in 3-manifolds
        Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 2004

Grants/Scholarships/Conferences Attended

MAA Fall '09 Section Meeting:  Nov. 2009
Joint Mathematics Meetings:  Jan. 2009
MAA Fall '08 Section Meeting:  Nov. 2008
Section NExT Fellow:  Mathematical Association of America, MD-DC-VA section, 2006-08
MAA Spring '08 Section Meeting:  Apr. 2008
MAA Fall '07 Section Meeting:  Nov. 2007
MAA Spring '07 Section Meeting:  Apr. 2007
MAA Fall '06 Section Meeting:  Nov. 2006
Travel Grant/Stipend:  AIM Research Conference Center, June 2005
        To attend the ARCC Workshop on Moduli Spaces of Properly Embedded Minimal Surfaces
Teaching Assistantship and Full Tuition Fellowship:  Dept. of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, 1999-2004
Travel Grant/Stipend:  Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Summer 2001
        To attend the MSRI Summer Graduate Program on The Global Theory of Minimal Surfaces
Travel Grant/Stipend:  National Science Foundation, Summer 1998
        To attend the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates at Iowa St. University.  Topic:  Mathematical Modeling
Notre Dame Scholar:  University of Notre Dame, 1995-99

Links

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