Current Status

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, SD 57701

Degrees Received

Primary Areas of Research Interest

• Numerical Linear Algebra, Applied Mathematics, Iterative Methods, and Program Assessment

Experience

• Courses taught.
  
• Department Head (2011-2018)
• Chair of the Department (2007-2011)
• Associate Professor of Mathematics at SDSM&T (2005-present).
• Assistant Professor of Mathematics at SDSM&T (1999-2005).
• Twelve semesters (including summers) at MSU teaching undergraduate math courses.
• Research assistant on grants EPSCoR(95) and DEPSCoR(96-97,98) under various members of MSU faculty.

Publications

• A. Logar, K. Riley, V. Manes, J. McGough , "Using Competitive Programming to Strengthen Programming Skill for Mechanical Engineers " May 2015, Morocco at The Competitive Learning Institute Symposium.
• A. Logar, V. Manes, J. McGough, and K. Riley, "Strengthening Engineering Programming Skills", ASEE Rocky Mountain Conference, Denver, CO, April 10-11, 2015.
• N. Baxter-Hastings, D. Beers and K. Riley, "Implementing an Efficient Departmental Review", MAA Focus, December, 2010, pp. 23-24.
• N. Baxter-Hastings and K. Riley, "Guidelines for Serving as a Consultant in the Mathematical Sciences", published guidelines on the Mathematical Association of America website, January, 2009.
• J. McGough and K. Riley, "Apriori bounds for reaction-diffusion systems arising in chemical and biological dynamics".Applied Mathematics and Computation, v163, n 1, (2005) pp 1-16.
• J. McGough and K. Riley, "Pattern formation in the Gray-Scott model". Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, v 56, n 5, (2004) pp 105-121.
• K. Riley, "Conducting an External Review of a Mathematics Program and Department". PRIMUS, v 13, n 4, (2003) pp 373-383.
• K. Riley, "Using Spreadsheets to Estimate the Volatility of Stock Prices". Mathematics and Computer Education v 36, n3, (2002) pp 240-246.
• K. Riley and C. Vogel, "Preconditioners for Linear Systems Arising in Image Reconstruction" , in Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations VIII, SPIE Proceedings vol. 3461-67 (1998).

Skills

• Programming experience in Matlab, Maple, LaTex and LaTex2e.
• Preliminary programming exposure to HTML, C, Fortran, SAS, and Pascal.
• Experience with operating platforms: Unix, Linux, Windows, HP-UX, and MS-DOS.

Institutional Service, Awards and Memberships

• Volunteer for GenCyber camp, a high school girls cybersecurity camp hosted on the campus of SDSM&T, June 24-29, 2018.
• Chair of the Review Committee for the Department Head of Geology and Geological Engineering for SDSM&T, December 2017-February 2018.
• Member of the Lab Space Allocation Committee - charged with developing guidelines for allocation of laboratory space on campus, Fall 2017.
• Member of the Department Head Review Committee- charged with developing a new evaluation process for Department Heads for SDSM&T, October 2017.
• Volunteer for GenCyber camp, a high school girls cybersecurity camp hosted on the campus of SDSM&T, July16-21, 2017.
• Member of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA Nomination Committee (2017-2020).
• Volunteer for the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), world finals, Rapid City, SD, May 21-25, 2017.
• Chair of the Search Committee for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SDSM&T (2016-17)
• Member of the MAA Committee on Professional Development (16-21)
• Past Chair of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA (16-17)
• Chair of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA (14-16)
• Chair Elect of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA (13-14)
• Department Head, Math & CS, SDSM&T, (11-2018)
• Project NExT consultant (09-10)
• Leadership Rapid City (class 2008)
• Governor of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA (08-10)
• Department Chair, Math & CS, SDSM&T, (07-11)
• Chair of the MAA Committee on Consultants (07-2013)
• Chair of the University Curriculum Committee (06-07)
• Member of the MAA Committee on Minicourses (06-09)
• Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA Student Activity Coordinator (05-07)
• Member of funded EAC grant: "Concepts Inventory Assessment in Probability and Statistics." With Johnson, Matejcik, and Kellogg. January, 2003.
• Nelson Research grant award for Biocomplexity, spring 2002.
• Member of the teaching enhancement grant for teaching with the TI-89, spring 2002.
• Member of the campus General Education Program Assessment committee (01-05)
• Chair of the departmental assessment committee (fall 00 - 2003)
• Project NExT member (00-01)
• Dept. Freshmen advocate (1999-2003)
• Member of the Mathematics Discipline Council; state of South Dakota (99-2003), (2007-2018)
• Phi Beta Kappa (92)
• Phi Kappa Phi (91)
• member of the American Society for Engineering Education (2014-present)
• member of the Association for Computing Machinery (2011-2018)
• member of the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (2001-2010)
  
• member of the Mathematical Association of America (1998-present)
• member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1993-2009).
• member of the American Mathematical Society (1992-2000).

Presentations and Conferences Attended

• Organizer, Panel Disucssion, "Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics Online", Mathematical Association for America, Mathfest 2018, Denver, CO, August 3, 2018.
• Poster: "Case Study of Student Success", Mathematical Association of America Mathfest 2018, Denver, CO, August 2, 2018.
• Workshop: Adopting and Adapting the MAA Instructional Practices Guide by Spencer Bagley, Gulden Karakok, and Hortensia Soto-Johnson, Greeley, CO, April 14, 2018.
• Presentation: "Case Study of Student Success", Rocky Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America, Greeley, CO, April 13, 2018.
• Workshop: Academic Leadership Training 2017, workshop sponsored by the South Dakota Board of Regents office, July 27-28, 2017.
• Presentation: "SD Mines Math Initiative: Enhancing Student Success through the use of Recitations" Rocky Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America, First Two Year Courses, April 22, 2017.
• Workshop: Active Learning Workshop by RaKissa Manzanares and Gary Olson at University of Colorado at Denver, Pueblo, April 21, 2017.
• Workshop Series: SD Mines Leadership Workshop, series of three workshops that occur September 2016, January 2017, and May 2017. Workshop lead is Dr. Idahlynn Karre
• Presentation: "An Online Review System to Promote Student Success" Rocky Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America, Classroom Innovations Contributed Paper Session, Grand Junction, CO, April 9, 2016.
• Workshop: "Teaming & MIDFIELD Workshops" by Dr. Matthew Ohland of Purdue University, campus of SDSMT, November 23, 2015
• Presentation, "Assessing Motivation in a Numerical Methods Class", MAA Mathfest, Washington DC, August 8, 2015.
• Organizer for Contributed Paper Session: Projects, Applications and Demonstrations to Enhance a Numerical Analysis or Computational Mathematics Course, Washington DC, August 8, 2015.
• Co-director on "Workshop to Prepare Outstanding Departmental Reviewers", August 3, 2015, Washington D.C. Working with Elizabeth Yanik of Emporia State University and Su Doree of Augsburg College
• Presentation, "There and Back Again: A journey through mathematics placement", Rocky Mountain Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, April 18, 2015.
• Presentation, "Use of Course Embedded Assessments" Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, TX, January 13, 2015.
• Workshop: "The Art and Science of Donor Development", Advancement Resources, Denver, CO, August 5-6, 2014
• Presentation, "Redesign of Calculus 2: update", Rocky Mountain Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, Laramie, WY, March 29, 2014
• Presentation, "The Solution is Software", CTE conference, Mitchell, SD, July 30, 2013.
• ABET Accreditation workshop, part of ACM SIGCSE, Rayliegh, NC, February 2012.
• Co-Presenter (A professional development course with Nancy Baxter Hastings, Dickinson College), "MAA Minicourse on Preparing to Serve as a Consultant in the Mathematical Sciences", Joint Mathematics Meetings,Boston, MA, January 4-7, 2012
• Presentation, "The View from the (soon to be former) Section Governor", Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Boulder, CO, April 7, 2011
• Presentation, "Redesign of Calculus 2", Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January 8, 2011
• Presentation, "A Mathematical Tour of Robotics", MAA Mathfest, Pittsburgh, PA, August 5, 2010.
• Presentation, "The Allure of Numerical Methods for PDEs", MAA Mathfest, Portland, OR, August 7, 2009.
• Invited Panelist, "Joining the Mathematical Community", Project NExT workshop, Portland OR, August 3, 2009.
• Presentation "Getting your Numerical Methods to Excel", Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA meeting, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, April 18, 2009.
• Presentation "The Role of External Consultants as Part of a Departmental Self Study", Joint Mathematics Meeting, Washington DC, January 7, 2009.
• Presentation "Does this Compute? (Use of CAS in calculus and post-calculus)", Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA meeting, BHSU, Spearfish, SD, April 25, 2008.
• Presentation "Tablet PC as a Gateway to Calculus", co-authored with Jill Trimble, Session on Using Innovative Technologies to Implement Active Learning in Mathematics (and in other STEM disciplines), Joint Mathematics Meeting, January 9, 2008.
• Presentation "Making Connections with Interpolation", Session on Challenges and Successful Strategies in Teaching a Numerical Analysis Course, MAA Mathfest, San Jose, CA, August 5, 2007.
• Member of Panel Discussion, "The Departmental Self-Study: How to ensure that it is purposeful?", MAA Mathfest, San Jose, CA, August 4, 2007.
• Presentation "Introduction to Cellular Automata", MAA Mathfest, Knoxville, TN, August 12, 2006.
• Organizer of the session: "The Best Approximation of a Good Numerical Methods Course", MAA Mathfest, Knoxville, TN, August 12, 2006.
• Invited session organizer for a MAA PREP Workshop on training consultants for Mathematical Science Departments, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, June 11-14, 2006.
• Presentation "The Use of a Lab Section in Trigonometry", Research in Undergraduate Education contributed paper session (research-to-practice), MAA Mathfest, Albuquerque, NM. August 6, 2005.
• Presentation "Applied Mathematics and the Magic of the Double Major", Session on Innovative Mathematics Majors in Small/Medium Departments, MAA Mathfest, Albuquerque, NM. August 4, 2005.
• Invited to the MAA PREP Workshop on Developing Resources for External Evaluators of Mathematical Science Departments, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, June 15-18, 2005.
• Co-organizer of the session: "Mathematical Modeling Modules and Materials", MAA Mathfest, Providence, RI. August 14, 2004.
• Co-organizer of the panel discussion: "The Nuts and Bolts of Periodic Review", MAA Mathfest, Providence, RI. August 12, 2004.
• Presentation "Concepts Inventory Assessment in Probability and Statistics", MAA Mathfest, Boulder, CO. August 2, 2003.
• Organizer of Session "The Art/Science of Using Mathematics in Applications", MAA Mathfest, Boulder, CO. July 31 and August 1, 2003.
• Presentation "Concepts Inventory Assessment in Probability and Statistics", MAA Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, USAFA, Colorado Springs, CO, April 26, 2003.
• Presentation "Using Difference Equations to Model Source-Sink Populations", MAA session on Environmental Mathematics in the Classroom. AMS-MAA joint meetings, Baltimore, MD, January 15, 2003.
• Presentation "Conducting an External Review of a Mathematics Program", Mathfest 2002, Burlington, VT, August 1, 2002.
  
• Organizer of the assessment session at the Rocky Mountain Section meeting, Laramie, WY, April 12, 2002. Gave a presentation entitled: "Assessing the Department and Mathematics Program by Using an External Review".
• Co-organizer on a session in undergraduate math modeling courses. Mathfest, Madison, WI, August 1, 2001.
• The winter joint math meetings and Project NExT workshops January 9-13, 2001.
• The summer Mathfest (MAA) and Project NExT workshops, August 3-5, 2000.
• Copper Mountain Conference, April 2000.
• Computation and Control sixth biyearly meeting. Presentation entitled: "Preconditioners for linear systems arising in image reconstruction", Bozeman MT, August 1998.
• The International Society for Optical Engineering 43rd Annual Meeting. Paper presented: "Preconditioners for linear systems arising in image reconstruction", San Diego CA, July 1998.
• Montana Academy of Sciences 57th Annual Meeting; Montana State University-Bozeman. Talk entitled: "Splitting Methods as Preconditioners for the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Method", April 1998.
• SIAM Applied Linear Algebra Sixth Conference, Snowbird UT, October 1998.
• Montana Academy of Sciences 56th Annual Meeting; Montana State University-Billings. Talk entitled: "Phase Retrieval and Blind Deconvolution", April 1997.

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