Professor Chris Rodger

Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society

Foundation Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications

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I serve on the editorial boards of the following journals.

Laura McCauley

Abby Allen

Nidhi Sehgal

Amin Bahmanian

Julie Rogers

Thomas Whitt

Joe Chaffee

6 Master of Science Students (by thesis)
- Sangeetha Srinivasan won an AU Outstanding Master Student Award (2006).
30 Master of Applied Mathematics Students (by project)

Todd Smith, 2003-04 (1 paper written)
Michael Tiemeyer 2005-06 (awarded one of 22 fellowships by Auburn University ($4,000 stipend); honorary mention for a student talk at the Twelfth International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics, Mathematics and Applications ($100 prize); 1 paper written)

2 books published (with other authors)
- Design Theory (2nd Edition; Taylor and Francis)
- Coding Theory and Cryptography : The Essentials (2nd Edition; Marcel Dekker)
2 Journal Volumes published
- Discrete Mathematics (In honor of Curt Lindner), Guest Editor (with Dean Hoffman), 284 (2004).
- Discrete Mathematics (In honor of Anthony Hilton), Guest Editor (with Lars Andersen), 309 (2009).
8 book chapters published
150 research papers published or accepted

4 NSF research grants (individual), 1988 - 2000 (over $180,000).
2 ONR research grants (with 2 colleagues), 1995 - 2001 (over $300,000)
Eisenhower Foundation grant with joint funding from NSF and AU Outreach, 2002-2003 (over $100,000).
NCLB grant with joint NSF, Education Foundation of America and AU Outreach funding, 2003-2005 and 2006-07 (over $275,000).
NSF MSP grant (with 5 other PIs), 2003-2008 (over $8,900,000, with a new supplemental grant of $375,000).

Since 2001, I have conducted 5 summer workshops on ``Critical Thinking and Problem Solving", a Discrete Math Leadership Institute for K-8th Grade Teachers'' to work with teachers in high need areas of Alabama. Each workshop lasts from 5 to 8 days, and involves 3 follow-up meetings in the ensuing school year. Also involved in this project are master teachers, some from Alabama who have been through the program, others coming from places such as Arizona, Ohio, Rhode Island and Texas. Funding for the project has come from the Eisenhower Foundation, the NSF, the Educational Foundation of America, Auburn University, and the involved school districts. The program was developed at Rutgers University by Joe Rosenstein. For more information on this effort, see
Discrete Math Institutes
I am one of 6 PIs on a 5-year NSF grant worth $8,996,840, to work with 12 school districts to address the low mathematics achievement in this region through a coordinated effort that focuses not only on the schools, but also on universities' teacher preparation, and on community and parental support. For more information on this effort, see
Team Math