About Peh Ng

Affiliations Acting Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Dean Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Dean, University of Minnesota at Morris, Morris, Minnesota 56267 e-mail: pehng@morris.umn.edu Phone: (320) 589-6015 Office: Behmler Hall 309 Professor of Mathematics Division of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota at Morris, Morris, Minnesota 56267 e-mail: pehng@morris.umn.edu Phone: (320) 589-6318 Office: Science Building (Office Wing) Room 2330 During my sabbatical, I was a visiting member of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota 400, Lind Hall 207, Church St SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 Tel: 612-624-6066 email: ng@ima.umn.edu

Specific Current Employment

I am an professor of mathematics at a wonderful, public, liberal arts institution of higher learning, a.k.a. the University of Minnesota - Morris. You can go to the Homepage of the Mathematics Discipline , for more information.

Education

• BS (Magna Cum Laude), Mathematics & Physics, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan.
• MS, Applied Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
• PhD, Operations Research and Combinatorial Optimization, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Teaching and Research Interests

• Mathematical Programming
• Combinatorial and Discrete Optimization
• Network Modeling and Optimization
• Mathematical Modeling
• Linear Algebra and applications
• Applications of Graph Theory
• Matroid Theory
• Operations Research
• Discrete Mathematics
• Applications of Calculus

Click here for information on my past and current research endeavors.

Click here for more information on the courses I taught till last spring.

In general, my areas of teaching and research interests include, but are not limited to, diverse areas in the field of operations research and its applications, namely, most of the aforementioned areas. For more information on these topics, try to either take or audit the following scintillating mathematics courses, namely, Discrete & Combinatorial Math (Math 3411, or Math 1760 & 3370 under quarters), and Operations Research (Math 3401, or Math 3270 under quarters).

Commitment to excellence in teaching is my primary goal here at UMM. Currently, during this fiscal year, I am teaching Calculus 1, operations research, discrete & combinatorial mathematics, linear algebra and deterministic models for management science. I unequivocally believe that active involvement in research and scholarly activities complements and enhances good teaching; I always try to maintain an on-going research agenda in applied mathematics (actually I am doing this because I also do enjoy solving problems.)

Personal

I am originally from Malaysia, a commonwealth country that takes pride in its committment to democracy and multiculturalism. For more information on this country, please click on the Malaysia Homepage . While in Malaysia, I completed kindergarten through Secondary Five (`O' levels SPM) at the Muar Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus School.

In my spare time (which is a mythical thing these days), I sit around and read JA Jance, John Sandford, David Sedaris, Tom Clancy, or John Grisham novels, hang-out with friends and their kids and dogs/cats, and write scintillating stuff like this for people like you to read.

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