Teaching
I am currently a Math instructor at Southeastern Louisiana University. I have taught MATH 200 Calculus I, MATH175 Pre-Calculus with Trigonometry, MATH 163 Applied Calculus, MATH 241 Elementary Statistics, and MATH 151 College Algebra since I started working here.
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While I was a Ph.D. student at LSU, I independently taught Calculus I, Calculus II, College Algebra and Trigonometry, where I took full responsibility of the course. I was a teaching assistant for the Capstone Course a few times, where I led a group of undergraduate students work on projects where they can apply mathematical knowledge.
Research
Zhaoxia "Mary" Hess
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Ph.D. in Mathematics
Graduated from the Department of Mathematics
at Louisiana State University
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email: qiancao0104@hotmail.com
My Ph.D. dissertation analyzes the the spectrum of Schroedinger operators on graphs with a tree structure, specifically how the spectrum depends on the vertex conditions. By developing a connection with orthogonal polynomials, one is able to gain detailed information on the location of the eigenvalues as the length of the tree increases.