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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
 

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

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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

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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

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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