Dr. David A. Schmidt

Amos Eaton Bldg. Room 408
Department of Mathematics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180

 Office: (518) 276-6888

schmid@rpi.edu








EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 5/95

                    Thesis Title: Non-Even Digraphs, Sign-Invertibility and Symplectic Pairs

          Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, 5/88
 

EXPERIENCE:
9/97-Present  Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics

          9/95-9/97        Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics,   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
            Spring 1997   Text Reviewer, Prentice Hall Publishers, Upper Saddle River, NJ
                        Participated in pre-publication review of an Abstract Algebra Text
 
Summer 1995   Mathematics Instructor, HEOP Summer Program, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

                        Instructor for college-preparatory Mathematics course offered by Office of Minority Student
                        Affairs and NY State
 
 9/88-5/95        Teaching Assistant, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
 
 9/94-5/98  Mathematics Instructor, UTC Minority Students Tutoring Program, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

                        Conducted by Rensselaer's Office of Minority Student Affairs
 
 6/94-5/95  Accuracy Editor, Delmar Publishers, Inc., Albany, NY

                        Participated in accuracy checks for several Mathematics and Electrical Engineering Texts
 
 12/87-7/88  Software Developer, Muller Media Conversion, Inc., New York, NY

                       Developed word-processing translation software in the C programming language
 
 
PUBLICATIONS:

D. Schmidt, C.C Lim, Full Sign-Invertibility and Symplectic Matrices, Linear Algebra and its Applications 232:97-110 (1996)
 

         C.C. Lim, D. Schmidt, On Non-Even Digraphs and Symplectic Pairs, Bulletins of the Malaysian Mathematical Society, 2nd
      series: 18, 71-85 (1995)


HONORS:
        RHA Professor of the Month, March, 2007

        Listed in "Who's Who Among American Teachers," 1/98

        Harry W. Reddick Fund Award for Meritorious Work in Mathematics, 6/88
        

       Certificate for Meritorious Work: Mathematical Competition for Modeling, 12/87