David Brown

Associate Dean, Curriculum and Admissions, Humanities and Sciences
School: School of Humanities and Sciences

Scholarship and Professional Activity

  • 2020-2023
    • NSF-REU: Ithaca College REU in Dynamical Systems, with T. Galanthay and D. Visscher. $288,000.
       
  • 2019-2024
    • NSF S-STEM Grant: Community Building to Support Academic Success and Retention of Low-Income Students, with K. Sullivan, J. Barr, M. Thomas, S. Zabusky. $648,000
       
  • 2014

    • Experimental mathematics for the first year student
      D. Brown
      PRIMUS
      Volume 24, number 4, pp. 281-293
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    • Convergence of m-bonacci golden ratios
      K. Ahrens, D. Brown, A. Kramer
      International Journal of Mathematics Education in Science and Technology
      Volume 45, number 4, pp. 618-624
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    • NSF Grant - Supporting rural districts’ implementation of the mathematics
      Common Core Standards through a Regional Collaborative model (2014-2019) - not funded

      $4.9 million grant for a regional model of professional development for K12 mathematics teachers
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  • 2011

    • NSF Grant - Robert Noyce Teaching Scholarship Program (2011-2016) - Awarded
      $1.2 million grant for the training of mathematics and physics students for teaching in high needs schools. 
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  • 2010

    • NSF Grant - GeoGebra Conference Grant (2010-2011)  - Awarded
      $50,000 grant to facilitate the First North American GeoGebra Conference; July 2010. 
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  • 2009

    • Geometric Properties of Three Dimensional Fractal Trees 
      Paul Bliss and David Brown
      Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
      Volume 42, number 1, pp. 119-124
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  • 2008

    • Identities and Parseval type relations for the L_2-transform 
      David Brown, John Maceli, and Osman Yürekli
      Applied Mathematics and Computation
      Volume 196, number 1, pp. 426-432
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  • 2007

    • Undergraduate research in mathematics as a curricular option 
      David Brown and Osman Yürekli
      International Journal of Mathematics Education in Science and Technology
      Volume 38, number 5, pp. 571-580.
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    • Identities for the E_{2,1}-transform and their applications 
      David Brown, Nese Dernek, and Osman Yürekli
      Applied Mathematics and Computation
      Volume 187, number 2, pp. 1557-1566.
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    • Symmetric fractal trees in three dimensions
      Rafael Frongillo, Eric Lock, and David Brown
      Chaos, Solitons, & Fractals
      Volume 32, number 2, pp. 284-295
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    • Super-attracting cycles for the cosine-root family
      Matthew Halstead and David Brown
      Chaos, Solitons, & Fractals
      Volume 31, number 5, pp. 1191-1202
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  • 2006

    • Integrating inquiry/discovery based activities into the mathematics curriculum
      David Brown and Osman Yürekli
      Mathematicians and Education Reform Forum
      Volume 19, number 1, pp. 4-10
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    • Identities for the exponential integral and the complementary error transforms
      David Brown, Nese Dernek, and Osman Yürekli
      Applied Mathematics and Computation
      Volume 182, Number 2, pp. 1377-1384
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    • Undergraduate research experience at Ithaca College
      David Brown and Osman Yürekli
      Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics
      Istanbul, Turkey, June/July
       
    • Teichmüller Theory and Applications to Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics
      by John H. Hubbard, with contributions by A. Douady, W. Dunbar, R. Roeder, S. Bonnott, D. Brown, A. Hatcher, C. Hruska, S. Mitra, Textbook published by Matrix Editions
    • NSF Grant [NSF-IIS #0648211]- REU Site in Virtual Reality, Robotics, and Visualization (2007-2010)
      $212,000 grant to mentor summer undergraduate research

  • 2005

    • Structure of the Pathlength Set of Asymmetric Trees
      Chloe Epstein, William Sendewicz, and David Brown
      Fractals
      Volume 13, number 4, pp. 293-299
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  • 2004

    • Necessary Conditions for Cyclic Elements on Elliptic Curves
      Eric Heinzman and David Brown
      Pi Mu Epsilon Journal
      Volume 12, number 1, pp. 1-8
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    • Identities for Generalized Fibonacci Numbers
      Lindsay Monk, Donny Tang, and David Brown
      International Journal of Mathematics Education in Science and Technology
      Volume 35, number 3, pp. 436-439
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    • Pathlength and Tree Height in Asymmetric Binary Branching Fractal Trees
      Patricia Howard, Amelia O'Hanlon, and David Brown
      Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences
      Volume 16, number 2, pp. 88-103
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  • 2003

    • NSF Grant [NSF-CNS #0353687] - REU Site in Virtual Reality, Robotics, and Visualization (2004-2007)
      $165,000 grant to mentor summer undergraduate research