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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Math Dept. Telephone</span></i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>: (423) 425 </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'> 4<span style='mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>545<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Math Dept. Fax</span></i><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>(423) 425 </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'> 4586<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Email:</span></i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><a href="mailto:Sumith-Gunasekera@utc.edu"><span style='color:windowtext'>Sumith-Gunasekera@utc.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Web Site</span></i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>: </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext'><a href="http://www.utc.edu/Faculty/Sumith-Gunasekera/"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://www.utc.edu/Faculty/Sumith-Gunasekera/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-9.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>EDUCATION:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>University of Nevada  Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada USA<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:76.5pt;text-indent:-76.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Ph.D., Statistics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:81.0pt;text-indent:-81.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>August 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:67.5pt;text-indent:-67.5pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Dissertation: <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Statistical Inferences for Functions of Parameters of Several Pareto and Exponential Populations with Applications in Data Traffic.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:121.5pt;text-indent:-121.5pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Dissertation Adviser<a href="http://faculty.unlv.edu/ananda"><span style='text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>: </span>Dr. <span class=SpellE>Malwane</span> M. A. <span class=SpellE>Ananda</span>, Ph.D.</a></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#993300'> </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>(Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana USA) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:121.5pt;text-indent:-121.5pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                 </span>Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Nevada USA<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:121.5pt;text-indent:-121.5pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:121.5pt;text-indent:-121.5pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:76.5pt;text-indent:-76.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>University of Colombo, Colombo 3, Sri Lanka<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:76.5pt;text-indent:-76.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>B.Sc. (Honors), Physics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:76.5pt;text-indent:-76.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>October 1995 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Thesis: <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Determination of the Coefficient of Lift for a Spinning Sphere.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Thesis Adviser:<a href="http://www.cmb.ac.lk/academic/Science/Departments/Physics/personnel/wmpkw.htm"><span style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'> </span>Dr. W. M. <span class=SpellE>Kanishka</span> P. <span class=SpellE>Wijeratna</span>, Ph.D.<span style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'> </span></a>(</span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext'>University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri USA</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000099'>)</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#000099'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:121.5pt;text-indent:-121.5pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                   </span></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext'>Senior Lecturer of <span class=apple-style-span>Atomic &amp; Molecular Physics, Department</span></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'> of Physics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:76.5pt;text-indent:-76.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>PROFESSIONAL EXAMS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:184.5pt;text-indent:-184.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Engineering Council (EC) Examination:</span></i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> Formerly <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Council of Engineering Institutions (CEI) Examination,</i> London, England (August 1991).<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                                 </span>Obtained the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Engineering Council Certificate</i></span><span class=MsoPageNumber><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'> that </span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>equates to 18 months of an </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Honors</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> B.Eng. </span><span class=MsoPageNumber><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>for the completion </span></span><span class=MsoPageNumber><span style='font-family: Georgia'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=MsoPageNumber><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                               </span><span class=GramE>of</span></span></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> the Part I of the Two-Part <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Engineering Council</i> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Examination</i>, which grants <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Engineering Council Diploma </i>that<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                                 </span></span></i><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>equates</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> to <span class=SpellE>B.Eng</span></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>. (Honors), offering the following courses: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:171.0pt;text-indent:-171.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                                 </span><span class=GramE>Mathematics, Mechanics, Electronics, Electro-Techniques, Presentation of Information, Properties of Materials.</span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                    </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                            </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                                 </span>Engineering Council </span></i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>is </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>jointly owned by <span class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>EC<sup>UK</sup></b><sup> </sup><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>and</span> <span class=SpellE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>City&amp;Guilds</b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>.</b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:windowtext'>Fields of Specialization &amp; Research Interests</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext'>: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>Statistical Inferences, Reliability, and Experimental Design</span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-.25in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:76.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-76.5pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Assistant Professor of Statistics/Mathematics</span></i></b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>: </span></i><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman"'>The<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> </i>Department of Mathematics<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>(<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Tenure-track) </i></span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                    </span>College of Arts &amp; Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-.25in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:76.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-76.5pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                              </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                               </span></span></i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The University of Tennessee  Chattanooga (UTC)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-.25in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:76.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-76.5pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                                             </span>615 <span class=SpellE>McCallie</span> Avenue, Dept. 6956<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                                    </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>         </span>Chattanooga, TN 37403  2598 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                                             </span>USA<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                                             </span>A<span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>ugust 01, 2009 </span> <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Present<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Graduate Teaching Assistant</span></i></b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>: </span></i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The Department of Mathematical Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                   </span>College of Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                   </span>The University of Nevada  Las Vegas (UNLV)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                   </span><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 4020</st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                   </span>Las Vegas, NV 89154  4020 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                                   </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                        </span></span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>August</span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"'> </span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>2001 August 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Assistant Lecturer</span></i></b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>: </span></i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The Department of Physics<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                 </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Faculty of Science<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                 </span>The University of Colombo (UC)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                 </span><span class=SpellE>Kumaratunge</span> <span class=SpellE>Munidasa</span> <span class=SpellE>Mawatha</span>, P. O. Box 1490<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                 </span>Colombo 3<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                 </span>Sri Lanka<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                          </span></span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>October 1995  February 1997<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Teaching Experience<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Teaching Classes in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, TN USA:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Fall 2009  Present<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in; tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Fall 2009:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in; tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>               </span>1.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>MATH 210 (Introductory Statistics) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>         </span>2.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>MATH 131 (College Algebra) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in; tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Spring 2010:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in; tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>               </span>1.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>MATH 4120 (<span class=apple-style-span>Formerly</span> <span class=apple-style-span>MATH 420) (Undergraduate) &amp; MATH 5121 (Formerly MATH </span>501) (Graduate) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                    </span>(Applied Statistical Methods) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                     </span>2.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>MATH 3100 (<span class=apple-style-span>Formerly</span> <span class=apple-style-span>MATH 307) </span>(Applied Statistics)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Summer 2010:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>               </span>1.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>MATH 131 (College Algebra) MTWTF 9:50 AM  11:30 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in; tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Fall 2010:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in; tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>               </span>1.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>MATH 5110 (Formerly <span class=apple-style-span>MATH 521) </span>(Graduate Course) (Analysis of Variance)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>         </span>2.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>MATH 1910 (Formerly <span class=apple-style-span>MATH 151) </span>(Calculus I)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>         </span>3.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>MATH 1710 (Formerly <span class=apple-style-span>MATH 144) </span>(<span class=SpellE>Precalculus</span> I)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Teaching Classes in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, NV USA: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Summer 2001  Spring 2009: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>1.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>MATH 126 (Pre Calculus I, In-class)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>2.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>MATH 124 (College Algebra, In-class &amp; Online)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>3.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>MATH 120 (Fundamentals of College Mathematics, Online)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>4.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>MATH 096 (Intermediate Algebra, In-class &amp; Online)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>5.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>MATH 095 (Elementary Algebra, In-class &amp; Online)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>6.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>STA 491/691 (Statistics for Scientists I, In-class; Substituted)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>7.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>STA 161 (Introductory Statistics, In-class)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>8.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>STA 152 (Introduction to Statistics, In-class)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Tutoring Classes in Physics Department at the University of Colombo, Colombo 3, <span class=GramE>Sri</span> Lanka:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>October 1995 </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> February 1997:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>1.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><a href="http://www.cmb.ac.lk/academic/Science/Departments/Physics/programs/ug2.htm#Semi"><span style='color:windowtext'>PH 2001 (Analog and Digital Electronics</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>2.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><a href="http://www.cmb.ac.lk/academic/Science/Departments/Physics/programs/ug2.htm#Semi"><span style='color:windowtext'>PH 2003 (Electro Magnetic Theory</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>3.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><a href="http://www.cmb.ac.lk/academic/Science/Departments/Physics/programs/ug2.htm#Semi"><span style='color:windowtext'>PH 2004 (Special Relativity</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;tab-stops:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>              </span>4.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><a href="http://www.cmb.ac.lk/academic/Science/Departments/Physics/programs/ug2.htm#Semi"><span style='color:windowtext'>PH 1020 (Physics Laboratory </span></a>I)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>ACHIEVEMENTS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The Doctoral Student with the highest overall GPA of 3.91 in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, College of Sciences, at the University of <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>          </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><span class=GramE>Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada USA (2008/2009).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>PUBLICATIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Papers published and papers accepted for publication<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>         </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>     </span>1. <span class=SpellE>Cooray</span>, K., Gunasekera, S., and <span class=SpellE>Ananda</span>, M. M. A. (2006). <span class=GramE>The Folded Logistic Distribution.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>          </span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods 35</i><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>(</b>3<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>)</b>, 385-393. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:28.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:40.5pt;text-indent:-.5in;tab-stops:.5in; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>2. Gunasekera, S. and <span class=SpellE>Ananda</span>, M. M. A. (2009). Unbalanced Two-Way ANOVA Additive Model under <span class=SpellE>Heteroscedasticity</span> using <span class=GramE>Generalized</span> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>p</i>-Values. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:40.5pt;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>        </span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Advances and Applications in Statistics </i><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>11(</b>1<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>)</b>, 1-13.<i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:40.5pt;text-indent:-31.5pt;tab-stops: .5in'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>3.<span class=apple-converted-space>&nbsp;</span><span class=spelle>Gunasekera</span>, S. and<span class=apple-converted-space>&nbsp;</span><span class=SpellE><span class=spelle>Ananda</span></span>, M. M. A. (2010). <span class=GramE>Generalized Inferences for the Common Scale Parameter of Several Pareto Populations.</span><span class=apple-converted-space><i><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></i></span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><i><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:40.5pt;text-indent:-40.5pt'><span class=apple-converted-space><i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>          </span></span></i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>International Journal of Statistics and Management System<span class=apple-converted-space><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></span></span></i><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>5</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>(1-2), 118-126.</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:40.5pt;text-indent:-40.5pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>     </span>4. </span><span class=SpellE><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Cooray</span></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>, K., Gunasekera, S., and <span class=SpellE>Ananda</span> M. M. A. (2010). <span class=GramE>The <span class=SpellE>Weibull</span> and Inverse <span class=SpellE>Weibull</span> Composite Distribution for Modeling Reliability Data.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>         </span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Model Assisted Statistics and Applications</i> <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>5</b>(2), 109-115.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Papers submitted or under revision</span></i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>     </span></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>1. Gunasekera, S. and <span class=SpellE>Ananda</span> M. M. A. (2010). <span class=GramE>Generalized Inferences for the Common Location Parameter of Several Exponential Populations.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:40.5pt;text-indent:-40.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>          </span><span class=GramE>Submitted for publication.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:27.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:40.5pt;text-indent:-40.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>     </span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>2.</span></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'> </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Gunasekera, S. and <span class=SpellE>Ananda</span> M. M. A. (2010). <span class=GramE>Statistical Inferences for the Offered Optical Network Unit Load.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:40.5pt;text-indent:-40.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>          </span><span class=GramE>Submitted for publication.</span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>     </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>3. <span class=SpellE>Cooray</span>, K., Gunasekera, S., and <span class=SpellE>Ananda</span>, M. M. A. (2009). <span class=GramE>Modeling Actuarial Data with Pareto Composite Families.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>          </span><span class=GramE>Submitted for publication.</span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'>GRANTS:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>           </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                       </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      </span>1. Received the University of Tennessee  Chattanooga (UTC) Faculty Research Grant (2009/2010)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      </span>2. Submitted a proposal for the UC Foundation Summer Fellowship (2009/2010)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>THESIS AND DISSERTATION COMMITTEES</span></b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'>:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>     </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                             </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Committee Member: <span class=SpellE>Bhavan</span> <span class=SpellE>Madhu</span>, MS Thesis, College of Engineering &amp; Computer Science:<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span> Optimization of Hybrid System of <span class=SpellE>PhotoVoltaic</span> (PV) and Wind Turbines considering Transient Analysis of Building Loads and Energy <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>     </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=GramE>Requirements using TABPVHYB, May, 2010.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>       </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'>MEMBERSHIP IN OR AFFILIATION WITH PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                                  </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      </span>1. American Statistical Association (ASA)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'>DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                            </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      </span>1. UTC Mathematics Department Colloquium Committee (2009/2010)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      </span>2. UTC Mathematics Department Student Relations Committee (2009/2010)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>CONFERENCE </span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'>PAPER PRESENTATIONS:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.25pt;text-indent:-14.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The following two papers were presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) held jointly with the American Statistical Association (ASA), Biometric Society <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.25pt;text-indent:-14.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>International (Eastern American Region - ENAR and Western American region - WNAR), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and the Statistical Society <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.25pt;text-indent:-14.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span class=GramE><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>of</span></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'> Canada (SSC) in Denver, Colorado, USA (August 2008). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>            </span>1. Generalized Inferences for Common Scale Parameter of Several Pareto Populations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                </span><span class=GramE>Gunasekera, S. and <span class=SpellE>Ananda</span>, M. M. A.</span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>            </span>2. Folded Parametric Families. <span class=SpellE>Ananda</span>, M. M. A., <span class=SpellE>Cooray</span>, K., and Gunasekera, S.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>TALKS: </span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The following paper was presented at the Mathematics Department Colloquium (Spring 2010). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>          </span></span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>1. 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