Department of Mathematics and Statistics Newsletter 2015 Newsletter | Page 10
Our “retired” faculty
• Jo Heath published her
second novel under her pen
name “Jo Wharton Heath,”
titled, 1 + 1 = Murder. The book
is a mystery set in Auburn, and
much of the action takes place
in Parker Hall. Readers who
are current or former denizens
of Parker Hall will feel right at
home, except for the bit about
whiteboards versus blackboards. Heath’s
editor insisted that no one would believe
Parker Hall still used blackboards!
• In recent years, Peg Daniels has become a
writer. Her short stories have been published
in The Dos Passos Review, Kaleidoscope, Little
(Flash) Fiction, moonShine Review, Southern
Women’s Review, and other literary magazines.
Her creative nonfiction has appeared in
Kaleidoscope and the national magazine New
Mobility. A couple of stories won awards
in writing contests, and one story has been
anthologized in Chinaberries and Crows,
a collection of stories and poems with a
Southern theme. Daniels has been invited to
give readings at the last four Auburn Writers
Conferences. She is on her omegath revision of
a mystery novel and hopes to complete it
very, very soon. Her author website,
containing links to her published pieces, is
prgdaniels.com.
• Jack Brown attended the 39th annual Summer
Symposium in Real Analysis in June 2015 at
St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. The
symposia are considered to be the premier
conferences of their type by members of the
real analysis community and traditionally
draw participants from North America,
Central, Eastern, and Western Europe, and
countries of the former Soviet Union. The
conference had 94 participants.
• Gary Gruenhage, A. J. Meir, and Steve
Stuckwisch received Professor Emeritus
status.
*Gary Gruenhage is the Retired Faculty Liaison.
Please send your news to him at
[email protected] so that we can include
you in our newsletter.
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Faculty
professorships
inspire, promote
faculty development
Tin-Yau Tam
is chair of the
Department of
Mathematics and
Statistics and in 2012
was named the Lloyd
and Sandra Nix
Endowed Professor.
He joined the
Auburn University
faculty in 1988 and
since that time,
has accumulated
numerous honors
and awards
including being named SEC Academic Leadership
Development Program Fellow and Outstanding
Graduate Mentor. Tam teaches graduate and
undergraduate courses where his research interests
are in algebraic structures and classification,
problem solving involving analytical and
algebraic techniques, and representation theory
and their applications.
“The Lloyd and Sandra Nix Endowed
Professorship is a great honor to me and I am
humbled to have received it. It meant even more
when I got to know Sandy and Lloyd. My wife
Kitty and I had dinner with them on several
occasions, during which I learned that Lloyd Nix
was the quarterback of Auburn’s 1957 National
Championship football team. We talked about
many different things, but it is interesting that we
did not talk about football! Sandy and Lloyd are
wonderful people, and great Auburn supporters.
The financial support that I receive helps propel
my research. In the past three years, I was able to
use the funds to suppo