Professor Chris Rodger

Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society

Foundation Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications

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I serve on the editorial boards of the following journals.

The Journal of Combinatorial Designs
The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics
The Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
The International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science
Discrete Mathematics (guest editor for volume 284, July 2004, in honour ofCurt Lindner)
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (guest editor for the Erdos volume)

Chandra Dinavahi

Laura McCauley

Michael Tiemeyer

Nick Newman

Todd Smith, 2003-04 (1 paper written)
Michael Tiemeyer 2005-06 (awarded one of 22 fellowships by Auburn University ($4,000 stipend); honorary mention for a student talk at the Twelfth International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics, Mathematics and Applications ($100 prize); 1 paper written)

4 NSF research grants (individual), 1988 - 2000 (over $180,000).
2 ONR research grants (with 2 colleagues), 1995 - 2001 (over $300,000)
Eisenhower Foundation grant with joint funding from NSF and AU Outreach, 2002-2003 (over $100,000).
NCLB grant with joint NSF, Education Foundation of America and AU Outreach funding, 2003-2005 and 2006-07 (over $275,000).
NSF MSP grant (with 5 other PIs), 2003-2008 (over $8,900,000, with a new supplemental grant of $375,000).

Since 2001, I have conducted 5 summer workshops on ``Critical Thinking and Problem Solving", a Discrete Math Leadership Institute for K-8th Grade Teachers'' to work with teachers in high need areas of Alabama. Each workshop lasts from 5 to 8 days, and involves 3 follow-up meetings in the ensuing school year. Also involved in this project are master teachers, some from Alabama who have been through the program, others coming from places such as Arizona, Ohio, Rhode Island and Texas. Funding for the project has come from the Eisenhower Foundation, the NSF, the Educational Foundation of America, Auburn University, and the involved school districts. The program was developed at Rutgers University by Joe Rosenstein. For more information on this effort, see
Discrete Math Institutes
I am one of 6 PIs on a 5-year NSF grant worth $8,996,840, to work with 12 school districts to address the low mathematics achievement in this region through a coordinated effort that focuses not only on the schools, but also on universities' teacher preparation, and on community and parental support. For more information on this effort, see
Team Math