Louisiana Tech University Phone: (318) 257-3329

JINKO KANNO

Curriculum Vitae

Mathematics and Statistics Program E-mail:

Ruston, LA 71272 URL: www.latech.edu/~jkanno

Personal

Name: Jinko Kanno

Nationality: Japanese

Work Experience

2003-present: Assistant Professor at Louisiana Tech University

1999-2003: Teaching Assistant at Louisiana State University

1984-1998: Mathematics Teacher at Shirayuri-Gakuen Junior and High School, Japan

Education

August 2003: Ph.D. degree in Mathematics, Louisiana State University

Advisor: Dr. Guoli Ding. http://www.math.lsu.edu/~ding

December 2000: M.S. degree in Mathematics, Louisiana State University

March 1981: M.S. degree in Mathematics, Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan

Research Interests and Funded Grants

· Graph Theory, Matroid Theory, and Combinatorics

· Board of Regents research grant titled Minors and Immersions in Graphs for 2004-2007

· Regional and National NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) Fellow for 2004-2005

Publications

· Splitter Theorems for 4-Regular Graphs, Guoli Ding and Jinko Kanno, preprint.

· Splitter Theorems for Cubic Graphs, Guoli Ding and Jinko Kanno, to appear in Combinatorics, Probability and Computing ( see http://www.math.latech.edu/~kanno).

· Splitter Theorems for 3- and 4-Regular Graphs, dissertation (see http://etd.lsu:8085/docs/available/edt-0529103-123537).

· Extended Alexander Matrices of 3-Manifolds I,” Shinji Fukuhara and Jinko Kanno, Tokyo Journal of Mathematics 8, (1985), 107-120.

Selected Presentations

January 2005: “Splitter Theorems for 4-Regualr Graphs,” Contributed paper session at Joint

Mathematics Meeting in Atlanta

June 2004: “Splitter Theorems for 3- and 4-Regular Graphs,” Invited Talk at the Special

Seminar in Math at Tsukuba University, Japan

January 2003: “Some Splitter Theorems,” AWM poster session in Baltimore

March 2001: “Splitter Theorems for Cubic Graphs,” The 32nd Southeastern International

Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing at LSU

November 2000: “Splitter Theorems for Cubic Graphs,” The 12th Workshop on

Topological Graph Theory at Yokohama National University, Japan

Courses Taught

I have taught Pre-calculus, Advanced Calculus, Business Calculus, Contemporary Mathematics, Trigonometry, College Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, and Non-Euclidean Geometry.

Training

September 2003: Effective College Teaching Workshop, sponsored by COES and IDEAS

Summer 2003: Participated in a Research Experience for Undergraduates at LSU

January 2003: Proposal Writing Workshop at the Louisiana Systemic Initiatives Program

September 2002: Workshop for the web site “blackboard”

January 1999 –

May 2000: Graduate Student Teaching Seminar at LSU

Participated in a weekly workshop for new graduate teaching assistants in

Mathematics

Honors and Memberships

2004-2005: Selected as a National NExT Fellow (New Experience in Teaching), Orange Dot

September 2002: Selected as a participant in the AWM Workshop held in conjunction with the Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 18, 2003, in Baltimore, Maryland

January 1999 –

Spring 2003: Graduate Assistantship, Department of Mathematics, LSU

Fall 2001: Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Department of Mathematics, LSU

Memberships: American Mathematics Society, Mathematical Association of America and Association for Women in Mathematics