Personal

Name: Jinko Kanno

Nationality: Japanese

Work Experience

2003-present: Assistant Professor at Louisiana Tech University

1999-2003: Teaching Assistant at Louisiana State University

1984-1998: Mathematics Teacher at Shirayuri-Gakuen Junior and High School, Japan

Education

August 2003: Ph.D. degree in Mathematics, Louisiana State University

Advisor: Dr. Guoli Ding. http://www.math.lsu.edu/~ding

December 2000: M.S. degree in Mathematics, Louisiana State University

March 1981: M.S. degree in Mathematics, Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan

Research Interests and Funded Grants

Graph Theory, Matroid Theory, and Combinatorics
Board of Regents research grant titled Minors and Immersions in Graphs for 2004-2007
Regional and National NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) Fellow for 2004-2005

Publications

Splitter Theorems for 4-Regular Graphs, Guoli Ding and Jinko Kanno, preprint.
Splitter Theorems for Cubic Graphs, Guoli Ding and Jinko Kanno, to appear in Combinatorics, Probability and Computing ( see http://www.math.latech.edu/~kanno).
Splitter Theorems for 3- and 4-Regular Graphs, dissertation (see http://etd.lsu:8085/docs/available/edt-0529103-123537).
Extended Alexander Matrices of 3-Manifolds I,” Shinji Fukuhara and Jinko Kanno, Tokyo Journal of Mathematics 8, (1985), 107-120.

Selected Presentations

January 2005: “Splitter Theorems for 4-Regualr Graphs,” Contributed paper session at Joint

Mathematics Meeting in Atlanta

June 2004: “Splitter Theorems for 3- and 4-Regular Graphs,” Invited Talk at the Special

Seminar in Math at Tsukuba University, Japan

January 2003: “Some Splitter Theorems,” AWM poster session in Baltimore

March 2001: “Splitter Theorems for Cubic Graphs,” The 32^nd Southeastern International

Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing at LSU

November 2000: “Splitter Theorems for Cubic Graphs,” The 12^th Workshop on

Topological Graph Theory at Yokohama National University, Japan

Courses Taught

I have taught Pre-calculus, Advanced Calculus, Business Calculus, Contemporary Mathematics, Trigonometry, College Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, and Non-Euclidean Geometry.

Training

September 2003: Effective College Teaching Workshop, sponsored by COES and IDEAS

Summer 2003: Participated in a Research Experience for Undergraduates at LSU

January 2003: Proposal Writing Workshop at the Louisiana Systemic Initiatives Program

September 2002: Workshop for the web site “blackboard”

January 1999 –

May 2000: Graduate Student Teaching Seminar at LSU

Participated in a weekly workshop for new graduate teaching assistants in

Mathematics

Honors and Memberships

2004-2005: Selected as a National NExT Fellow (New Experience in Teaching), Orange Dot

September 2002: Selected as a participant in the AWM Workshop held in conjunction with the Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 18, 2003, in Baltimore, Maryland

January 1999 –

Spring 2003: Graduate Assistantship, Department of Mathematics, LSU

Fall 2001: Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Department of Mathematics, LSU

Memberships: American Mathematics Society, Mathematical Association of America and Association for Women in Mathematics