Research
Researcher Highlight
November 2009's Researcher of the Month: Dr. Ted Dobson, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics
Ted Dobson is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics who joined the faculty here at Mississippi State in 1998. Prior to coming to MSU, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD from Louisiana State University, with a B.S. and M.A. from the University of North Texas. His research mainly deals with vertex-transitive graphs (which can be though of as networks that contain a high degree of symmetry) focusing on classifying such graphs, how to tell whether two such graphs are "the same", and finding fast algorithms which will calculate all of the symmetries of important families of such graphs. He is also interested in developing the permutation group theory which is needed to address the preceding questions. In addition to publishing over 30 journal articles, Dr. Dobson has given invited plenary talks at conferences and workshops in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Slovenia, as well as being Managing Editor of the international journal Ars Mathematica Contemporanea. He was also a 2008-2009 Fulbright Scholar, spending the Fall Semester at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia.