Tracy McKay's Homepage
About
Me
- Major
Professor: Dr.
Ryan Martin
- Office:
402
Carver Hall
- Email:
tmckay16@iastate.edu
For the Spring semester of 2012, I am teaching Math 307 section A.
Teaching Activities at Iowa State University
- Center for
Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics Education
(Graduate Assistant to the Director, Fall 2010)
- Math
166, Calculus II (stand alone section: Spring 2010)
- Math
166, Calculus II (recitations:
Fall 2009)
- Math
165,
Calculus I (stand alone section: Spring 2009)
- Math
140, College Algebra (Fall 2011, Fall 2008, Fall 2007)
- Math
151, Calculus for
Business and Social Sciences (recitations: Spring 2008)
- Math
150, Discrete
Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences (recitations:
Fall 2006, Summer 2007; Lead TA and recitations: Spring 2007)
I received the
Iowa
State University Teaching Excellence Award for graduate
students in May, 2010.
Papers
- On the chromatic number of subsets of the Euclidean plane, with M. Axenovich, J. Choi, M. Lastrina, J. Smith, and B. Stanton (submitted).
- On
the edit distance from K2,t
-free graphs, with R. Martin (submitted).
- Techniques for
determining minimum rank of a small graph, with L.
DeLoss, J. Grout, L. Hogben, J. Smith, and G. Tims
in Linear Algebra and
its Applications 432
(2010), 2995-3001.
For the Spring semester of 2011, I was supported by the Wolfe Graduate Research Fellowship.
Talks
- "Colored
Regularity Graph Constructions for the Edit Distance Function
of Forb(K2,t)," Discrete
Math
Seminar, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, December 7th, 2010.
- "On
the Edit Distance of Forb(K2,t),"
2010 SIAM conference on Discrete mathematics, Austin TX, June 17, 2010.
- "On
the Extremal Edit Distance of Forb(K2,t),"
Oral Preliminary Examination, Iowa
State University, Ames, IA, April 9th, 2010.
- "Colored
Regularity Graphs and an Extremal Edit Distance Problem," Mathematics
Lunch Seminar, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, March 2nd, 2010.
- "The Erdős-Faber-Lovsz
Conjecture and Kahn's Asymptotic Result," Discrete Math
Seminar, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, February 23rd, 2010.
- "CRGs,
p-core CRGS, and a Strategy for Finding d*," Discrete Math Seminar, Iowa
State University, Ames, IA October 20th, 2009.
- "W.
G. Brown's Construction for Graphs That Do Not Contain a Thomsen Graph,"
Discrete Math Seminar, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, October 28th,
2008.
- Software
for Computation of Minimum Rank" (with Jason Smith), Discrete Math
Seminar, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, April 15th, 2008.
- Introduction
to Stegonography and Steganalysis: Embedding Schemes and Attacks"
(with Eric Hansen and Andrew Regensheid), Discrete Math Seminar, Iowa
State
University, Ames, IA, October 31st, 2006.