GREGORY P. WENE, Ph. D

Professor of Applied Mathematics

Department of Applied Mathematics

The University of Texas at San Antonio

B.A. Mathematics, University of Texas, 1964

M.A. Mathematics, University of Texas, 1970

Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Iowa, 1978

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Dr. Wene is an established mathematician with diverse mathematical interests that include teaching, popularizing, creating and applying mathematics. He participated in establishing and served as coordinator for the developmental mathematics program at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Dr. Wene is the sponsor for the statewide mathematics contests presented by the Texas Math and Science Coaches Association held annually at UTSA. In addition, his name has appeared more than 30 times as author and/or solver of mathematics problems in various mathematics journals. Dr. Wene has more than 35 research publications in the diverse areas of non-associative algebra, mathematical physics and finite geometry. Currently, he is expanding his research efforts into the field of space weather.

Dr. Wene began his scientific career as a high school student collecting and classifying insects with his father, George P. Wene, Ph. D., and while working at the Texas A&M Agricultural Experiment Station #15 in Weslaco, Texas.

COLLABORATORS IN LAST 48 MONTHS:

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Dr. Wene has over 60 professional publications; this sample displays his interests and the variety of journals in which he has published.):

1. Problem 5972 with Solution, The Amer. Math. Monthly, 81(1974), 524.

2. On a theorem of Osborn, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 69(1978), 11-15.

3. An example of a flexible Jordan-admissible algebra of current use in physics, Hadronic J. 1(1978), 944-954.

4. Algebras with anti-commuting basal elements, space-time symmetries and quantum theory, J. Math. Phys., 25(1984), 414-416.

5.The metric of a space and quadratic algebras, J. Math. Phys., 30(1989), 1034-1038.

6. On translation planes of even non-square order, J. Combinatorics, Information and System Sciences, 19(1995), 195-199. (With V. Jha and N. L. Johnson)

7. A survey of finite semifield planes, Discrete Mathematics, 208/209 (1999), 125- 137. (With Minerva Cordero-Vourtsanis)

8. Finite Semifields Three-dimensional Over The Left Nuclei in Nonassociative Algebra and Its Applications, R, Costa et al., ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2000, 447-456.

9. Problem 10897 with Solution, The Amer. Math. Monthly, 108(2001), 771.