Lisa Hansen

Education

B.S., Mathematics, Western Michigan University, 1990
M.S., Mathematics, Michigan State University, 1992
Ph.D., Mathematics (with emphasis in graph theory and computer science), Western Michigan University, 1997

Interests

Graph Theory
Algorithm Design and Analysis
Mathematics and Music
Theory of Computation
Assessment

Scholarly Works

Journal Articles

1. Changes to an IT Program in Response to the IT 2008 Curriculum Guidelines. (with H. Ellis, S. Jackson, L. Tang, and J. Willemain). Proceedings of the 10th SIGITE Conference on Information Technology Education. ACM, New York, NY, 192-198.

2. Distance in stratified graphs. Czech. Math. J. 50 (2000) (with G. Chartrand, R. Rashidi and N. Sherwani)

3. Orientable open domination of graphs. J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comp. 29 (1999) 159 181. (with Y. Lai, B.Q.Yue)

4. Domination in Digraphs Ph.D. Dissertation, Western Michigan University (1997).

5. Orientable step domination in graphs. Congress. Numer. 117 (1996) 129-143. (with Y. Lai, B.Q. Yue)

6. Greatest common divisors and least common multiples of graphs. Period. Math. Hungar. 27 (1993) 95-104. (with G. Chartrand, G. Kubicki and M. Schultz)

7. On a degree problem in graph theory. Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics 23 (1991) 45-53. (with M. Schultz)

Courses Taught

First Year Seminar
Mathematics for Elementary Education I and II
Calculus I and II
Discrete Structures I and II
Advanced Discrete Structures
Combinatorics
Graph Theory
Real Analysis
Algebraic Structures
Computing for the Arts and Sciences
Computer Science I and II
Cryptography and Network Security
Computer Graphics
Theory of Computation
Design and Analysis of Algorithms