David Bradley - Service

Service/Volunteer Work

Elected to serve on the Faculty Awards Committee of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences June 2002 -- June 2005.

Grant proposal reviewer for
- the National Science Foundation (NSF)
- the National Security Agency (NSA)
- the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Article reviewer for the American Mathematical Society's Mathematical Reviews.

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

May 2002 - Present: Officer of the UMaine Chapter of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.

Sept. 2000 - May 2001: M.A. thesis advisor for Ji Hoon Ryoo and Paulo Correia.
Sept. 1999 - May 2000: Computational mathematics tenure-track search committee.
Spring, 2000: Nicole Brown's M.A. thesis committee.
Spring, 2000: Nicholas Bogan's M.A. thesis committee.
Sept. 1999 - Fall 2000: Served as department seminar/colloquium coordinator.
Jan. 1999 -- May 2000: Served on the Steering Committee for the University of Maine's proposed Computer Modeling Institute.
Sept. 1998 - Sept 2000: Served on the former departmental graduate executive committe.

Spring 2000: In collaboration with former Graduate Coordinator Ramesh Gupta, I prepared a graduate handbook for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine.
Fall 1999 - July 2000: Assisted Professor Ramesh Gupta with organizing the International Conference on Statistics in the 21st Century held at the University of Maine June 29 - July 1, 2000.
May 10, 2000: Co-organized with Phil Locke the Maine-Day cleanup and redecoration of the Math Department Library.
December 1999: Prepared an exam (worth $400 to our department) for students attempting to test out of MAT 126 (Calculus I).
October 7-10, 1999: Assisted Professors Chip Snyder and Ali Özlük with hosting the second annual Québec-Maine Number Theory Conference, held at the University of Maine.
Fall, 1999: Organized weekly lunch meetings with faculty and graduate students.
Summer, 1999: Recruited two graduate students --- Jung ah Jung (M.A. Statistics, 2001) and Ji Hoon Ryoo (M.A. Mathematics, 2001).
Fall 1998: External Ph.D. Thesis Examiner for Doctoral Candidate Anthony Sofo, "Summing Series Using Residues," Department of Computer & Mathematical Sciences, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Ph.D. Supervisor: Professor Peter Cerone.

Fall 1997: Assisted Professors Keith Johnson and Karl Dilcher in coaching the Dalhousie University Putnam team. Prepared weekly sets of problems and solutions based on material from the "Red Book" by Kenneth Williams, "Problem Solving Through Problems" by Loren Larson, and old Putnam Exams.

March 1997: Set up and staffed the CECM¹ booth during the British Columbia Advanced Systems Institute Exchange, held at the Robson Square Conference Centre in Vancouver. The Exchange promotes communication between academia and high-tech industry.
Aug. 1996 - Aug. 1997: Secretary-Treasurer of the UBC² Chapter of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society. Responsibilities included organizing meetings, choosing speakers, keeping chapter members informed of upcoming events, maintaining a current list of members, and managing funds.

December 1995: Assisted in preparing the Proceedings of the 1995 Organic Mathematics Workshop, held at the Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre Campus. Specifically, I was responsible for creating the organic version of the paper, Pfaff's Method (III): Comparison with the WZ Method, by George Andrews, and the paper, Approximations to Pi via the Dedekind Eta Function, by Jonathan Borwein and Frank Garvan.

Fall 1995 and Fall 1996: Assisted in setting up and operating the CECM¹ booth at Simon Fraser University's annual Open House. The Open House attracts potential students and their families from all over the lower mainland of British Columbia.

May 1995: Assisted in the organization and hosting of the International Conference on Analytic Number Theory in Honor of Heini Halberstam, held at the Robert Allerton Park Conference Centre, Monticello, Illinois.