Home Sweet Home - The "Berkshire Hills" Western Massachusetts, USA   Professor Raymond F. Tennant, Ph.D. ALHOSN University Provost Professor of Mathematics Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences PO Box 38772, Abu Dhabi, UAE   r.tennant@alhosnu.ae raymond.tennant@gmail.com CURRICULUM VITAE 2013 RESEARCH INTERESTS   Higher Education ·         Learning Outcomes Based Academic Models ·         Program Accreditation and Curriculum Development ·         Institutional Governance and Strategic Planning ·         Institutional Effectiveness and Quality Assurance   Mathematics ·         Category Theory Methods in Group Theory and Topology ·         Islamic Art, Tilings, and Architecture ·         Mathematical Symmetry and Visual Mathematics ·         Ethnomathematics and Cultural Connections ·         Technology, Models, and Simulations for Teaching Mathematics

Getting to Know a Provost, Gulf News   Gulf News (UAE) - October 14, 2012 The Ones Who Did Not Run in the Wake of September 11, The National The National (UAE) - September 5, 2011

BRIDGES CONFERENCE 2013 www.BridgesMathArt.org Enschede, the Netherlands   Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Music   July 27-31, 2013   Paper Submission Deadlines: Regular Papers: 1 February 2013 Workshop Papers: 1 March 2013 Short Papers: 15 March 2013 Acceptance Notifications: 30 March 2013 Final Submissions: 30 April 2013

Selected Publications (2011) Efficient Approach to Curricula Development in Newly Established Private Universities (2010) Dyscalculia: More Than a Mathematics Phobia (2009) Medieval Islamic Architecture, Quasicrystals, and Penrose and Girih Tiles (2006) Visualizing Mathematics: Imagery Techniques for Learning Abstract Concepts (2004) Islamic Tilings of the Alhambra Palace: Teaching the Beauty of Mathematics (2004) Islamic Tilings of the Alhambra Palace: Teaching the Beauty of Mathematics (Arabic Version) (2003) Islamic Constructions: The Geometry Needed by Craftsmen (2003) Using History in the Mathematics Classroom: Pythagoras, Quadratics and More (2003) Using History in the Mathematics Classroom: Pythagoras, Quadratics and More (Arabic Version) (2002) Subgroup Lattices for Crystallographic Groups (2002) Interdisciplinary Teaching Strategies in the World of Humniastic Mathematics (2001) Abstract Construction Projects and the Imagination

SYMMETRY: CULTURE AND SCIENCE, SPECIAL ISSUE Symmetry in Islamic Art PUBLISHED 2009 - volume 19, numbers 2-3 LINKS ALHOSN University American Mathematical Society European Mathematical Society Mathematical Association of America National Council of Teachers of Mathematics ISIS - Symmetry Annual Bridges Conferences Middle States Commission on Higher Education