Departmental Service
Recurring Roles
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Colloquium Committee — Co-Chair (with Robert Niedzialomski): organize the department's colloquium each semester, see details below.
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Applied Mathematics Textbook Committee: review and recommend textbooks for the applied mathematics sequence, with rationale, and update course objectives and outlines to match new texts
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Departmental Library Liaison: sole liaison for the department's library resources — maintaining the textbook and journal inventory as editions change, supervising book orders, and ensuring students and faculty have access to needed materials.
Past RoleS
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Faculty Evaluation Committee: reviewed and recommended improvements to the department's procedures for annual faculty evaluation, adjunct evaluation, and merit consideration.
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Advisory and Planning Committee: helped set and assess the department's goals and objectives in alignment with the university's and college's five-year strategic plans.
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Calculus Course Coordinator: coordinated all sections of Calculus — conferring with instructors, sharing exam and course materials, recommending content and textbook changes, and overseeing common departmental exams.
For a full list of departmental and committee service, see my CV.
AY2026-27
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Recurring Roles
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Faculty Evaluation Committee: reviewed and recommended improvements to the department's procedures for annual faculty evaluation, adjunct evaluation, and merit consideration.
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Calculus I-III Textbook Committee Chair: review the textbooks, recommend textbooks along with the rationale, and update course objectives and course outlines for the new texts.
Colloquium Committee
I co-chair the Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium at UT Martin with Robert Niedzialomski. Together we organize the department's colloquium each semester — inviting speakers and coordinating a program that spans research, teaching and pedagogy, undergraduate research, and graduate-school pathways for our students. More details are available here. If you would like to give a talk at our weekly colloquium (Mondays 3-4 PM Central), email me sbandyo5@utm.edu
University Service
Strategic Planning
UT Martin Strategic Plan, Enrollment Growth (Goal 1)(2024) — appointed by Provost Phil Cavalier. Goal 1 is "sustainable enrollment growth" — the strategies under it cover enrollment planning, recruitment (including international and dual-enrollment), advising, and retention.
Program Review (THEC)
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Interdisciplinary Studies (2025) — Chair — reviewed the program's self-study, interviewed faculty and students, combined committee members' evaluations into the final report, and briefed the findings in the Chancellor's office. Appointed by the Office of Accreditation and Assessment.
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Political Science (2026) — Committee Member — responsible for the faculty portion of the review. Appointed by the Office of Accreditation and Assessment.
Faculty Research and Development
Faculty Research and Development Committee (2025-'27) — prepare guidelines, evaluate applications, and recommend recipients for faculty research and development grants, and review Regan Leave (faculty research leave) applications.
Broader Mathematical Community Service
Section governance & committees
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MAA-SE Executive Committee — Vice Chair for Programs (2025–2028)
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MAA Section Lecturer Committee (2025–2027)
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MAA-SE Nomination Committee — Southeastern Section Representative to the MAA Congress (2024)
Programming
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Organizer — MAA-ProjectNExT event, JMM 2025
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Workshop — "Beyond the PhD: Career at PUIs," MAA-SE Meeting (2025)
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Undergraduate Poster Session, MAA-SE Meeting (2025)
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Organizer — special session, "Dynamic Equations on Time Scales: Theory, Methods, and Applications," AMS Fall Central Sectional (2025)
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Organizer — special session, "Theoretical, Applied and Numerical Aspects of Nonlinear PDEs," AMS Spring Central Sectional (2025)
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Organizer — special session, "Recent Advancement in Control Theory and Applications in Artificial Intelligence," JMM 2025
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AWM MathFest Committee (2026-2029)
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Organizer — special session, "Early Career Women in Differential Equations," AWM Research Symposium (2025)
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Organizer — AWM Panel, "Shattering the Myths: Hiring Women in Mathematics," JMM 2026 (with Keta Henderson)
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Panelist — "To Graduation and Beyond: Job Market Process for Undergraduate and Graduate Students," MathFest 2026 (upcoming)
I referee actively for several mathematics journals — including the College Mathematics Journal, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, Turkish Journal of Mathematics, Electronic Research Archive, Applied Mathematics – A Journal of Chinese Universities, and the Arab Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences. Reviewing is one way I give back to a community I publish in; feel free to reach out at sbandyo5@utm.edu.