A special fund has been established for the purpose of supporting math graduate student professional travel and other expenses deemed suitable by the Math Department graduate coordinator.

The fund is named for former ETSU math graduate student Amy Weems. Amy was in our graduate program from 1994-1996. She received her M.S. under the direction of Dr. Robert Gardner in summer 1996. Her quality work while at ETSU resulted in three publications:

1. "Decompositions of the Complete Digraph into each of the Orientations of a 4-Cycle which admit a certain Automorphism," with R. Gardner and P. Torbett, Congressus Numerantium, 120 (1996) 33-39.
2. "A Bernstein Typle L^p Inequality for a Certain Class of Polynomials," with R. Gardner, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications, 219 (1998) 472-478.
3. "Bicyclic Decompositions of the Complete Digraph into Orientations of a 4-Cycle," with G. Coker, R. Gardner and P. Torbett, Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 37 (2001) 43-52.

• "Some Results on the Rate of Growth of a Polynomial," with R. Gardner and N. K. Govil.

Following her stay at ETSU, she started work on a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado, Boulder in Fall 1996. Unfortunately, health problems required a return to Tennessee. She again began work on a Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee in Fall 1997. Tragically, Amy died of cancer during Spring 1998. This fund has been established by the friends of Amy Weems in her memory.

For more information on this fund, please contact

Dr. Bob Gardner, Graduate Coordinator
Department of Mathematics
East Tennessee State University
Box 70663
Johnson City, Tennessee 37614
(423) 439-6977
E-mail: gardnerr@etsu.edu

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