{"id":11123,"date":"2025-04-17T12:09:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T17:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=11123"},"modified":"2025-04-17T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:06:09","slug":"sau-mathematics-faculty-present-research-at-regional-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2025\/sau-mathematics-faculty-present-research-at-regional-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"SAU mathematics faculty present research at regional conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11127\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11127\" class=\"wp-image-11127\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/Math1-1-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/Math1-1-copy-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/Math1-1-copy-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/Math1-1-copy-1024x805.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/Math1-1-copy-768x604.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/Math1-1-copy-1536x1208.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured from left to right: Dr. Li, Dr. Zhou, and Dr. Inam.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Three SAU faculty traveled to Edmond, Oklahoma, to present their research at the 86th Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Regional Conference at the University of Central Oklahoma in April.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professors of Mathematics Dr. Muhammad Inam, Dr. Chong Li, and Dr. Jie Zhou from SAU\u2019s Mathematics and Computer Science Department presented the following research over the two-day annual conference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inam presented a paper titled \u201cThe Word Problem for Adian Inverse Semigroups\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Li presented \u201cInteger Flows on Triangularly Connected Signed Graphs\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Zhou presented \u201cUnidimensional Distance Transformation for Efficient, Scalable Unsupervised Outlier Detection\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_11125\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11125\" class=\"wp-image-11125\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/math-2-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/math-2-copy-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/math-2-copy-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/math-2-copy-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/math-2-copy-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/math-2-copy-1536x1193.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Inam during his conference presentation.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the conference, SAU faculty engaged with fellow mathematics professors from neighboring states and exchanged research ideas.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MAA website, the MAA serves the world\u2019s largest community of students, faculty, and math enthusiasts with a mission to \u201cadvance the understanding of mathematics and its impact on our world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SAU is scheduled to host the MAA Regional Conference in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Mathematica and Computer Science Department at SAU, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/cs\/\">https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/cs\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About SAU:<\/p>\n<p>SAU, located in Magnolia, Arkansas, provides students with a complete college experience in a caring environment of service, innovation, and community. With more than 100 degrees in four distinct colleges and the School of Graduate Studies, SAU initiates new degree programs to fit the needs of career and professional trends of today. As part of this commitment, SAU proudly offers the Next Step Guarantee program, ensuring that students receive the necessary resources, career guidance, and support to transition successfully from college to their chosen careers or graduate studies. To learn more about SAU, visit www.saumag.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three SAU faculty traveled to Edmond, Oklahoma, to present their research at the 86th Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Regional Conference at the University of Central Oklahoma in April. Assistant Professors of Mathematics Dr. Muhammad Inam, Dr. Chong Li, and Dr. Jie Zhou from SAU\u2019s Mathematics and Computer Science Department presented the following research over&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2025\/sau-mathematics-faculty-present-research-at-regional-conference\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[271,272,308,7753,7758],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-archives","9":"category-college-of-science-and-technology","10":"category-homepage","11":"category-math-and-computer-science","12":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11128,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123\/revisions\/11128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}