Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL)

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Mary H. Vanderschoot

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Faculty status 2005

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Education

Ph.D. University of Maryland 1999
Dissertation: Limit Sets for Continuous Flows on Surfaces

B.S. Westmont College 1991

Professional and Personal Interests

Dr. Mary Vanderschoot joined Wheaton's faculty in 2005. Prior to coming to Wheaton she taught for several years at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She enjoys teaching all levels of college mathematics as well as pursuing her research in flows on surfaces and graph substitutions. She and her husband, Harry, have four young sons.
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Courses Taught

Math 218 Introduction to Calculus with Precalculus Mathematics
Math 231, 232 Calculus I and II
Math 245 Linear Algebra
Math 331 Vector Calculus
Math 385 Topics in Applied Mathematics

Membership in Professional Societies

Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical Association of America
American Mathematical Society

Research

Topological Dynamical Systems, Flows on Surfaces, Graph Substitutions, Fractals

Papers Published and/or Presented

An Exotic Flow on a Compact Surface, with N. Markley, Colloquium Mathematicum, 84/85 (2000), 235-243

Local Connectivity of Limit Sets, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, vol. 33, no. 4, Winter 2003, 1525-1538

The Topological Dimension of Limits of Graph Substitutions, with M. Previte, Forum Mathematicum, 15 (2003), 477-487

Remote Limit Points on Surfaces, with N. Markley, Journal of Differential Equations, 188 (2003), 221-241

Limits of Vertex Replacement Rules, with M. Previte and J. Previte, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, to appear.

Recurrent Orbits for Flows on Surfaces, with N. Markley, submitted to Journal of Differential Equations in April, 2007.

Faculty continued: Donald A. Josephson