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Vita:  Mohan Tikoo

 

Department of Mathematics

Southeast Missouri State University

Cape Girardeau, MO  63701

E-mail: mtikoo@semovm.semo.edu                           Tel:   (573)651-2777

 

EDUCATION                                  DEGREE          FIELD                DATE

University of Kansas                                                   Ph.D.                        Mathematics              1984        

University of Kansas                                                   M.A.                         Mathematics              1980

University of Jammu and Kashmir, India         M.A.                         Mathematics              1963

University of Jammu and Kashmir, India         B.A.                         Economics                 1961

University of Jammu and Kashmir, India         B.A.                         Mathematics & Arts  1960

 

FACULTY POSITIONS AND RANK

Southeast Missouri State University                Professor of Mathematics

1993-present

Southeast Missouri State University                Associate Professor of Mathematics

1988-1993

Southeast Missouri State University                Assistant Professor of Mathematics

1984-1988

University of Kansas                                       Assistant Instructor

1978-1984

Kashmir University, India                               Assistant Professor

1966-1978

 

COURSES TAUGHT AT SEMO

      Developmental Algebra                            Analytic Geometry and Calculus III

      Intermediate Algebra                                Applied Finite Mathematics

      Surveys of Mathematics                           Differential Equations I

      Plane Trigonometry                                   Fractal Geometry

      College Algebra                                        Modern Algebra

      Applied Calculus                                      Advanced Calculus I

      Analytic Geometry and Calculus I           Advanced Calculus II

      Analytic Geometry and Calculus II          Introduction to Point Set Topology

      Complex Analysis                                     Topology II

      Vector Calculus                                        Linear Algebra

      Research Methods                                    Algebra and Trigonometry

      College Algebra :on-line                           College Algebra -  ITV

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

      General Topology, Extension Theory

      Functional Analysis

      Zeros of Polynomials

      Differential Equations

      Dynamical Systems and Fractals

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

      Post-Professorial Merit (2003 - )

      Listed in:  American Men and Women of Science (1986 ---).

      Merit Pay Award, 1989-90, Southeast Missouri State University.

      Merit Pay Award, 1987-88, Southeast Missouri State University.

      Graduate School Fellowship, Summer, 1982 and 1983, University of Kansas.

      Florence Black Teaching Award, l982, University of Kansas.

      May Landis Fellowship, Summer, 1981, University of Kansas.


PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES (Membership)

 

      American Mathematical Society

      Mathematical Association of America

      Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics

      Planetary Society

      SEMO Council of Teachers of Mathematics

      International Platform Association

      National Geographic Society

      Smithsonian

      Library of Congress

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

      Refereed papers for

                    Math Magazine

                    SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis

                    Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences

                    Indian Journal of Mathematics

                    Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering

                    Proceedings of The Indian National Academy of Sciences

                    International Journal of Mathemaitcal Education in Science and Technology

                    Math Magazine

 

 

      Reviewer for the Journals

                    "Mathematical Reviews"

                    "Zentralblatt Fur Mathematik"

                    McGraw-Hill Publishers

                    Addison Wesley Publishers

                   

      Other

      Examiner of two Ph.D Dissertation from  Universities in India.

      Have supervised a Master’s Thesis in Knot Theory, and directed several Independent Studies

      Member of the American Mathematical Society Committee on Minicourses, 1994 - 2000

      Coordinator of minicourses at the Annual Summer Meeting, the Atlanta Mathfest, organized by the Mathematical Association of America, at Atlanta, Georgia, August 1 - 4, 1997.

 

SERVICE TO THE SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY

      University Academic Affairs Committee [chair:  2003 – 2004]

      Academic Council [member 2003 – 2005]

      Graduate Council [member 2003 – 2005]

      University Faculty Senate (member 1999 - 2005)

      University Planning Committee (member 2002 -2004)

      University International Council (member 2002)

      University International Committee (member) 2001 -2004

      College of Science and Math International Student Committee (member) 2000 –

      College of Science and Mathematics Review Committee for Research Involving Human Subjects (member) 2000 - 2004

      University Governance Committee (member 1999 -2003)

      University Senate Documents Committee (1991-1994, Chair 1993)

      University Assessment Committee (member) (1998 -2001)

      University Studies Council (member) (1992 – 1998)

      University Studies Curriculum Committee (1992 – 1998)

      University Studies Review Task Force (member 1997-98)

      Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair Judge (1985 -)

      University FYE Task Force Committee (1997 – 1999)

      College of Science & Technology Core Review Committee (member 1996 – 1998)

      Search Committee for Faculty Positions (member,  1992-93,  1996 – 97)

Have been a member and have chaired many Departmental Text Book Committees on regular basis

      Seminar Committee  (1985 – 1988,  1991- 1995;  Chair 1991,  Chair 2001 -)

       Department Tenure Committee (member  1995 - ; Chair 1996)

      Department Promotion Committee (member, 1995-1999, 2002 - )

      College Promotion and Tenure Committee (member 1995-1999)

      Departmental Coordinator of Putman Tests  1991-

 

 


PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESIONAL MEETINGS

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  "Separating H-sets with open sets"  (joint work with Professor Jack Porter), Math association of America Mathfest 2009, August 6, 2009, Portland, Oregon August 5 - 8, 2009.

Tikoo, Mohan L.  “Current trends in Pythagorean triples, a survey”,  M. A. A Missouri Section Meeting, , Cape Girardeau, MO., April 3, 2004.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  “Unifying concepts in geometry Conference on Research in UndergraduateMathematics” Education;  SouthBend, Indiana, September 20, 1998;  September 18-20, 1998.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  “On topics related to congruence, similarity, self-similarity, parallelism”; Geometry Workshop:  Sponsored by Upward Bound, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, March 21, 1998,       

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  “Integrating Geometry in a Meaningful Way (College Undergraduates.)

Workshop, ‘Missouri Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement”,Osage Beach, Missouri, Oct. 31

Nov. 1, 1997.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  “Integrating Geometry in a Meaningful Way (Schools K 9-12.)  Interface

97B”,Osage Beach, Missouri, (Session 26a),February 27, 1997, (Session 26b) February 28, 1997.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  “Some Applications of Fractals”,  the 13th Annual Conference on Teaching

Mathematics, Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics, (Southern Section), February 15,

1996, Carbondale, Illinois.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  On Strict and Simple Type Extensions.   American Mathematical Society and

Mathematical Association of America, January 5, 1995, San Francisco, California.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  On Some Problems Where Mathematics and Physics Interact.  Missouri

Association of Physics Teachers, Nov 5, 1994, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L. and Victor Gummersheimer.  Fractal Images Of Some Polynomial Functions.

Missouri Section of the Mathematical Association of America meeting at Joplin, Missouri, April

8, 1994.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  On A Certain Class Of Extensions.  Missouri Section of the Mathematical

Association of America meeting at Joplin, Missouri, April 8, 1994.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  On properties bi-invariant under  -covers.  Math Association of America

(Missouri Section), Fulton, Missouri,April 2, 1993.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  A note on H-Sets.  Math. Association of America (Missouri Section), April 8,

1989, Columbia, MO.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  Nearness Convergence.  23rd Annual Spring Topology Conference, March 16,

1989, Knoxville, TN.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  On Katetov Spaces.  22nd Annual Spring Topology Conference, April 7, 1988,

Gainesville, Florida.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  P-extensions.  American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association

of America, January 1987, San Antonio, Texas.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  Absolutes of almost realcompactifications.  American Mathematical Society

and Mathematical Association of America, January 8, 1986, New Orleans, LA.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  The Banaschewski - Fomin - Shanin Extension .  19th Annual Spring

Topology Conference, April 15, 1985, Tallahassee, FL.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  Remainders of H-Closed Extensions.  American Mathematical Society,

January 9, 1985, Annaheim, CA.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L. and S. A. Naimpally.  On T1 -Compactifications, one-hour invited address.

Symposium on Topology, January 1979, New Delhi.

 


PUBLICATIONS

 

Porter Jack and Tikoo, Mohan.  ”Separating H-sets by Open Sets”,  Canadian Math Bulletin, to appear

Tikoo, Mohan and Wang, Haohao.   Generalized Pythagorean Triples and Pythagorean triple Preserving Matrices”, Missouri Journal of Math, 21(1), 2009, 3 – 11.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  “A note on Pythagorean triple preserving matrices”, International Journal of Math Education in Science and

Technology, 33(6), 2002, 893 – 894.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  On Strict and Simple Type Extensions.  International Journal of Mathematics

and Mathematical Sciences, 21(2), 1998, 239-248.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  Integrating Geometry in a Meaningful Way, Schools K 9-12.  International Journal of Math Education in Science and

Technology, 29(5), 1998, 663-675..

 

Tikoo, Mohan L., M. Ahuja and L. Palmer.  Constructing Pythagorean Triple Preserving

Matrices.  Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences,  10(3),1998, 159-168.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L., M. Ahuja and L. Palmer.  Finding Pythagorean Triple Preserving Matrices.

Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences,  10(2) 1998, 99-105.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  Instructor's Resource Manual and Test Bank To Accompany College Algebra

and Algebra and Trigonometry, by Levitan, Koleman and Shapiro.  Saunders College Publishing,

1993.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L. and S. A. Naimpally.  Nearness Convergence.  Canadian Math. Bulletin, Vol.

33(3), 1990,268-27.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L. and Jack Porter.  Katetov Spaces.  Canadian Math. Bulletin, Vol. 32 (4),

pp.425-433 (1989).

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  A note on H-Sets.  Kyungpook Journal of Mathematics, Vol.28, No.1, pp.91-

95, 1988.

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  Absolutes of almost realcompactifications.  Journal of the Australian Math.

Society (series A), Vol. 41, pp.251-267 (1986).

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  Remainders of H-Closed Extensions.  Topology and its Applications, Vol.23,

pp. 117-128 (1986).

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  The Banaschewski - Fomin - Shanin Extensions .  Topology Proceedings,

Vol. 10, pp. 187-206(1985).

 

Tikoo, Mohan L. and  S. A. Naimpally.  On T1 -Compactifications.  Pacific J. Math, 84, pp. 183

190 (1979) ().

 

Tikoo, Mohan L.  Location of the Zeros of a Polynomial.  Amer. Math Monthly, 74, pp. 688

690 (1967).

 

PUBLISHED ARTICLES OF GENERAL INTEREST

 

"Undergraduate Topology", College of Science and Technology Southeast Missouri State

University, 1986.

 

"Solving Polynomial Equations", College of Science and Technology, Southeast Missouri State

University, 1987.

 

"On some applications of the companion matrix", College of Science and Technology, Southeast

Missouri State University, 1988.

 

"American Mathematics and John Von Neumann", Southeast Missourian, April 27, 1988.

 


Reviews:

 

"Apartness, compactness and nearness",  Mathematical Reviews August 2009, MR2454486 (2009h:54041). 

X \ {p} are non-normal for non-discrete spaces X,  Mathematical Reviews, Oct. 2008, MR 2008J:54018.

 

“On decomposition of continuity and some weaker forms of continuity via idealization”,

Mathematical Reviews, Sept. 2006, MR 2006i54015.

 

“On rarely g-continuous functions”, Mathematical Reviews, Sept. 2006, MR 54008.

 

“Eliminating covers in completeness”, Mathematical Reviews, May 2006, MR2006e:54003.

 

“Continuous bijections of finite powers of the Sorgenfrey line”, Mathematical Reviews, July 2006, MR2006g:54042.

 

“Almost P-spaces”, Mathematical Reviews, Dec 2004, MR 2004m:54024

 

Supernearness, a common concept of supertopologies and nearness”, Mathematical Reviews, June 2003,

MR2003f:54015

 

“On pre-- sets and pre-V-sets”, Mathematical Reviews, April 2003,

MR2003g:54004

 

“A proof of Blair-Higson-Johnson Theorem for z –embeddings”, Mathematical Reviews, April2003,

MR2003d:54030

 

“On semi-g-regular and semi-g-normal spaces”, Mathematical Reviews, March 2003,

MR2003c:54002

 

“A sufficient condition that the Higson corona of a half open interval [1, ) is a decomposable continuum”, Mathematical Reviews November 2002, MR 2002K:54027.

 

“C*-embeddings and P – or M – embeddings on product spaces”, Mathematical Reviews October 2002, MR2002J:54017.

 

“Extension properties and the Niemytzki plane”,  Mathematical Reviews, July 2001,

MR2001g:54017

 

“Proximal set-open topologies on partial maps”, Mathematical Reviews, April 2001, MR2001d:54014.

 

“On the equivalence of Fomin extension and the Banaschewski-Fomin-Shanin extension” ,

Mathematical Reviews,April 2000, MR2000d:54029.

 

“On relatively normal spaces, relatively regular spaces, and on relative property (a)” ,

Mathematical Reviews , February 2000, MR2000b:54020 .

 

“Co-connected spaces” , Mathematical Reviews, February 2000, MR:2000b:54012.

 

“On regular generalized continuous maps in topological spaces’:  Mathematical Reviews,

October 1998, MR: 98j:54017.

 

"On some problems in Cp -theory", Mathematical Reviews, August 1997, MR:97h:54017.

 

"Connectedness im klienen and local connectedness in C(X)", Mathematical Reviews, June 1997,

MR:97f:54027

 

"Further results on the product of chain-net spaces", Mathematical Reviews, January 1997, MR

97a:54010.

 

"On the Cardinality of Urysohn Spaces", Mathematical Reviews, October 1996,MR 96j:54006.

 

"Minimal Totally Disconnected Spaces", Mathematical Reviews,June 1996, MR 96f:54030.

 

"Some Properties of Cleavable Spaces", Mathematical Reviews, December 1995, MR 95m:54005

 

"On spaces with the property of weak approximation by points", Mathematical Reviews, May

1995, MR 95e:54004.

 

"On c-closed functions", Mathematical Reviews, February 1994, MR 94b:54044.

 

"Almost discrete SV-spaces", Mathematical Reviews, November 1993, MR 93k:54040.

 

"A note on the Katetov Shirota theorem", Mathematical Reviews, February,1993, MR 93b:54023.

 

"On the Cartesian products of Lindelof spaces with one factor hereditarily Lindelof",

Mathematical Reviews,

November 1992, MR 92k:54012.

 

"Uniform topologies on function spaces and topologies on power set", Mathematical Reviews,

October 1992, MR92j:54013.

"A note on topological spaces", Mathematical Reviews, October, 1992, MR 92j:54002.

 

"Ideally equivalent topologies and semitopological properties", Mathematical Reviews, October,

1992, MR92j:54001.

 

"On nearly para-Lindelof spaces", Mathematical Reviews, July 1992, MR 92g:54025.

 

"Some advances in the study of the normality of the-products", Mathematical Reviews, July

1992, MR92g:54007.

 

"On strongly s-regular spaces", Mathematical Reviews, June 1992, MR 92f:54018.

 

"Extensions of closure and proximity spaces", Mathematical Reviews, May 1992, MR

92e:54025.

 

Minimal topologies of almost para-Lindelof spaces", Mathematical Reviews, May 1992, MR

92e:54021.

 

"Perfect Spaces", Mathematical Reviews, May 1992, MR 92e:54019.

 

"A class of D-Proximities", Mathematical Reviews, February 1992, MR 92b:54056.

 

"Property Q", Mathematical Reviews, January 1992, MR 92a:54029.

 

"A generalization of scattered spaces", Mathematical Reviews, January 1992, MR 92a:54028.

 

"The G-compactification of a locally compact Hausdorff space", Mathematical Reviews, January

1992, MR92a:54026.

 

"Further investigations on Wallman-type extensions", Mathematical Reviews, January 1992, MR

92:54024.

 

"The extending of closed maps over perfect compactifications", Mathematical Reviews, January

1992, MR92a:54015.

 

"Properties of locally H-closed spaces", Mathematical Reviews, November 1991, MR 91k:54051.

 

"On para-H-closed spaces", Mathematical Reviews, November 1991, MR 91k:54045.

 

Reviewed for D. C. Heath and Co. the book "College Algebra" by Larson/Hostetler, 3e., April

1991.

 

Reviewed for Saunders Publishing Co. the book "College Algebra" by Coleman/Levitan/Shapiro,

3e.,June 1991.

 

"Separation properties and n-point topological extensions", Mathematical Reviews, October

1991, MR 91j:54043.

 

"Near compactifications", Mathematical Reviews, August 1991, MR 91h:54038.

 

"Powers of the Sierpinski space", Mathematical Reviews, July 1991, MR 91g:54027.

 

"On P-chain-net spaces", Mathematical Reviews, June 1991, MR 91f:54001.

 

"Generalizations of the property D()", Mathematical Reviews, May 1991, MR 91e:54053.

 

"On ultraconnected spaces", Mathematical Reviews, April 1991, MR 91d:54025.

 

"Operator approaches of weakly Hausdorff spaces", Mathematical Reviews, April 1991, MR

91d:54003.

 

"Inductive open mappings and spaces with open components", Mathematical Reviews, March

1991, MR 91c:54018.

 

"On  -semi-continuous functions", Mathematical Reviews, March 1991, MR 91c:54017.

 

"A Cantor diagonal method for nets", Mathematical Reviews, March 1991, MR 91c:54004.

 

"Further investigations on Wallman-type extensions" , Mathematical Reviews, February 1991,

MR 91b:54032.

 

"Concerning the equality of ,   ,and  ", Mathematical Reviews, November 1990,  MR

90k:54032.

 

"Remarks on semiregularity", Mathematical Reviews, October 1990, MR 90j:54023.

 

"On the theory of B- and Br-spaces in general topology", Mathematical Reviews, October 1990,

MR 90j:54010.

 

"On uniform connectedness", Mathematical Reviews, September 1990,  MR 90i:54070.

 

"Generalized Urysohn spaces", Mathematical Reviews, September 1990,  MR 90i:54067.

 

"Singular sets and compactifications: a sampler", Mathematical Reviews, September, 1990, MR

901:54065.

 

"On the question of Jankovic, Reilly and Vamanamurthy", Mathematical Reviews,  September,

1990, MR901:54026.

"A local property associated with the semilattice of compactifications of a space", Mathematical

Reviews, August1990, MR 90h:54030.

 

"Properties of topological spaces and semiregularization topology", Mathematical Reviews,  July

1990, MR90g:54014.

 

"Semi-T0-identification spaces, semiregularization spaces, feebly induce spaces, and properties

of topological spaces", Mathematical Reviews, July 1990,  MR 90g:54013.

 

"Some remarks on strongly compact spaces and semi-compact spaces", Mathematical Reviews,

May 1990,  MR90e:54052.

"On spaces in which every open cover has a weakly cushioned refinement", Mathematical

Reviews,  May 1990,  MR90e:54047.

 

"Complete rings of functions and Wallman-Frink compactifications", Mathematical Reviews,

April 1990,  MR90d:54055.

 

"On a generalization of Lindelof space", Mathematical Reviews,  April 1990,  MR 90d:54052.

 

"A note on Dp-spaces", Mathematical Reviews, April 1990, MR 90d:54047.

 

"A note on the homeomorphic image of a Tv-space", Mathematical Reviews, April 1990, MR

90d:54041.

 

"On  -weakly Hausdorff spaces", Mathematical Reviews,  April 1990, MR 90d:54038.

 

"On the preservation of Baire category under preimages", Mathematical Reviews, March 1990,

MR 90c:54010.

 

"New characterizations and properties of almost-open and almost-closed functions",

Mathematical Reviews, March 1990, MR 90c:54009.

 

"Generalized closed sets of order n and s-T1/2-spaces, Mathematical Reviews, February 1990,

MR 90b:54013.

 

"An alternative proof to a conjecture of A. H. Stone", Mathematical Reviews, January 1990, MR

90a:54098

 

"S(n)-spaces and H-sets", Mathematical Reviews, January 1990, MR 90a:54061.

 

"A characterization of [a, b] compactness", Mathematical Reviews, January 1990, MR

90a:54059.

 

"A note on semi compact spaces", Mathematical Reviews, January 1990, MR 90a:54058.

 

"A characterization of maximal connected spaces and maximal arcwise connected spaces",

Mathematical Reviews, January 1990, MR 90a:54055.

 

"A theorem of strong radiality of mapping spaces", Mathematical Reviews, January 1990, MR

90a:54045.

 

"A topological version of a combinatorial theorem of Katetov", Mathematical Reviews, January

1990, MR90a:54036.

 

"Limitation topologies on function spaces", Mathematical Reviews,  November 1989, MR

89k:54037.

 

"Properties of -compact spaces", Mathematical Reviews,  September 1989, MR 89i:54033.

 

"A theorem on function spaces", Mathematical Reviews,  July 1989, MR 89h:54009.

 

"-regular spaces", Mathematical Reviews,  June 1989, MR 89f:54042.

 

"Impartible spaces", Mathematical Reviews,  June 1989, MR 89f:54040.

 

"Adequate families of sets and function spaces", Mathematical Reviews, June 1989,  MR

89f:54035.

"On Perfect Functions", Mathematical Reviews, June, 1989, MR 89f: 54028.

 

"College Algebra by Grossman", Saunders College Publishing Co. April, 1989.

 

"Conditions of angelic type in function spaces", Mathematical Reviews, May, 1989, MR

89e:54028.

 

"Some embeddings related to C* -embeddings", Mathematical Reviews, March 1989, MR 98c

54030.

 

"On H(1)-closed spaces II", Mathematical Reviews, September, 1988, MR 88i-54015.

 

"Locally strongly H(P)-closed spaces",  Zentralblatt Fur Mathematik, June 1988, Rev. 54011.