Peter Johnson
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Emeritus
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Emeritus
Research Areas: Discrete Mathematics
Office: 230B Parker Hall
Phone: (334) 844-3745
Email: johnspd@auburn.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan
1973
B.S., University of Michigan
1967
Professional Employment
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
1988 - present
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
1983 - 1988
Visiting Lecturer, The University of Reading
1983 - 1985 and 1988 - 1989
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
1982 - 1983
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
Fall Quarter, 1978 and 1980 - 1982
Visiting Associate Professor, American University of Beirut
1978 - 1980
Visiting Assistant Professor, Kalamazoo College
1979
Visiting Professor, University of Michigan
Summer 1978
Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut
1974 - 1978
Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University
1973 - 1974
Teaching Fellow, University of Michigan
1968 - 1973
Honors and Awards
Alumni Professor
2014 - present
COSAM Dean's Award for Outstanding Teacher
2009
COSAM Dean's Research Award
2007
Foundation Fellow, Institute of Combinatorics and Applications
1990
U.S. Army Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
1983
Undergraduate degree awarded Summa Cum Laude
1967
Elected Sigma Xi Associate
1966
Professional Activities
Member: American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, Institute of Combinatorics: Applications, Sigma Xi: Secretary-Treasurer: Beirut Sigma Xi Club (1977-1978), Auburn University Chapter Awards Committee (1995-1996)
Research and Teaching Interests
Discrete Mathematics: Combinatorics; Graph Colorings; Extremal Graphs; Euclidean Ramsey Problems; Functional Analysis; Information Theory
Selected Publications
- With Darrel Hankerson and Greg Harris, a textbook: Introduction to Information Theory and Data Compression, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1998; 2nd edition, 2003.
- With Loren Anderson: Constructively coloring the line, Geombinatorics 23 (October, 2013), 52-64.
- With Garth Isaak and Caleb Petrie: Integer and fractional security in graphs,Discrete Applied Math. 160 (2012), 2060-2062.
- With K. Koolsaet, K. J. Roblee, and T.D. Smotzer: Some extremal problems for edge-regular graphs, Ars Combinatoria 105 (2012), 411-418.
- The fractional chromatic number, the Hall ratio, and the lexicographic product,Discrete Math.309 (2009), 4746-4749.
Last updated: 08/26/2024