I. Academic/Professional Background
A. Name: Title:
Yong Yang Associate Professor
B. Educational Background
Degree Year University Major Thesis/Dissertation
PhD |
2009 |
University of Florida |
Mathematics |
ME |
2001 |
Shanghai JT University |
Electrical Engineering |
BE |
1998 |
Shanghai JT University |
Automatic Control |
BS |
1998 |
Shanghai JT University |
Mathematics |
C. University Experience
Position |
University |
Dates |
Associate Professor |
Texas State University |
2019 - |
Assistant Professor |
Texas State University |
2013 - 2019 |
Assistant Professor |
University of Wisconsin at Parkside |
2011 - 2013 |
Lecturer/Visiting Scholar |
Texas State University |
2009 - 2011 |
II. TEACHING
Certification to Teach Online at Texas State University Spring 2020
Summer 2020 STEM Teaching Workshop May 18-22, 2020
A. Courses Taught:
• Discrete Math I and College Algebra , Texas State University, Fall 2023
• Discrete Math I and Calculus III , Texas State University, Spring 2023
• Discrete Math I , Texas State University, Fall 2022
• Discrete Math I and Linear Algebra, Texas State University, Spring 2022
• College Algebra and Calculus II+ , Texas State University, Fall 2021
• Discrete Math II, Texas State University, Spring 2021
• Linear Algebra , Texas State University, Summer 2020
• Calculus II , Texas State University, Spring 2020
• Calculus I, Texas State University, Fall 2019
• Abstract Algebra II (Graduate), Texas State University, Spring 2019
• Linear Algebra & Abstract Algebra (Graduate), Texas State University, Fall 2018
• Discrete Math I & Discrete Math II, Texas State University, Spring 2018
• Calculus III & Discrete Math (Graduate), Texas State University, Fall 2017
• Calculus III, Texas State University, Spring 2017
• Calculus I, Texas State University, Fall 2016
• Calculus III, Texas State University, Spring 2016
• Discrete Math I & Discrete Math (Graduate), Texas State University, Fall 2015
• Discrete Math I & Discrete Math II, Texas State University, Spring 2015
• Linear Algebra, Texas State University, Fall 2014
• Discrete Math I & Discrete Math II, Texas State University, Spring 2014
• Discrete Math I & Discrete Math II, Texas State University, Fall 2013
• Real Analysis & Calculus II, University of Wisconsin at Parkside, Spring 2013
• Linear Algebra & Calculus II, University of Wisconsin at Parkside, Fall 2012
• Real Analysis & Calculus I, University of Wisconsin at Parkside, Spring 2012
• Linear Algebra & Calculus I, University of Wisconsin at Parkside, Fall 2011
• Business Calculus, Texas State University, Spring 2011
• Trigonometry & College Algebra, Texas State University, Fall 2010
• College Algebra, Texas State University, Fall 2009, Spring 2010
• Calculus II, University of Florida, Spring 2009
• Calculus I, University of Florida, Fall 2005, Spring & Fall 2006, Spring & Fall 2007 , Spring & Fall 2008
• Pre-Calculus, University of Florida, Fall 2004, Spring 2005
B. Graduate Theses/Dissertations, Honors Theses, or Exit Committees (if supervisor, please indicate):
Advisor for Holly Tidwell, spring 2023 – present; Master in Mathematics, Dissertation topic: Derived length of solvable linear groups.
REU mentor for one algebra team (Anakin Dey, Kolton O'Neal, Duc Van Khanh Tran, Camron Upshur), summer 2023.
REU mentor for two algebra teams (Neelam Akula, Mallory Dolorfino, Matthew Lideros, Luke Martin, Kawika O'Connor, Zachary Slonim, Yuxuan Sun), summer 2022.
REU mentor for two algebra teams (Michael Gintz, Matthew Kortje, Megan Laurence, Zili Wang, Awildo Gutierrez, Yuqiao Huang, Duncan Peckham), summer 2021.
REU co-mentor for one algebra team (Chris Florez, Jonathan Higgins, Kyle Huang, David Shen), summer 2020.
REU mentor for one algebra team (Alexander Betz, Max Chao-Haft, Ting Gong, Anthony Ter- Saakov), summer 2019.
Advisor of Mengtian Zhang, fall 2023 – present; Master in Mathematics, Dissertation topic: TBD. Advisor of Mengxi You, fall 2023 – present; Master in Mathematics, Dissertation topic: TBD.
Advisor of Xia Xu, fall 2022 – present; Master in Mathematics, Dissertation topic: On Huppert ’ ρ- σconjecture.
Advisor of Fang Bian, fall 2021 – present; Master in Mathematics, Dissertation topic: On small orbits of self-dual modules.
Advisor of Xuning Zhang, fall 2021 – present; Master in Mathematics, Dissertation topic: Recognizing simple groups using codegree set.
Advisor of Yinling Gao, fall 2019 – spring 2022; Master in Mathematics, Dissertation topic: On nilpotent subgroups of solvable linear groups.
Advisor of Wanting Li, fall 2019 - spring 2022; Master in Mathematics, Dissertation topic: On primitive character degrees of finite groups.
Advisor of Gabriela Lara, fall 2017 - spring 2019; Master in Mathematics, Dissertation topic: Almost set-transitive groups.
Committee member of Jones Nathan, spring 2017 - spring 2018; Master in Pure Mathematics, Dissertation topic: Orbit sizes and the dihedral group of order eight.
Committee member of Rodney Overturff, fall 2013 - spring 2015; Master in Pure Mathematics, Dissertation topic: Groups with automorphisms inverting most elements.
Advised a 2-student team for the Honors Summer Math Camp in 2014.
Co-advised a 3-student team for the Honors Summer Math Camp in 2016.
Supervisor of undergraduate independent study of Deacon Coldren, On large Zsigmondy primes, May 2016 - May 2017.
Supervisor of undergraduate independent study Shervin Hawley, Almost set-transitive groups, May 2016 -May 2017.
Supervisor of undergraduate independent study of David Johnson, BS of Engineering, CORBIS: Efficient and Robust Bisection Clustering for Big Data Analytics, Jan 2017 - May 2017. (supported by REP).
Exit Committees chair for master dissertation defense: Xiang Jian, Hongru Guo,Tao Wu, Yanyan Jin,Southwest University, China, May 2017.
Exit Committee member for PhD thesis defense: Yu Zeng, Southwest University, China, May 2017.
III. SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE
A. Works in Print (including works accepted, forthcoming, in press)
1. Articles
a. Refereed Journal Articles:
1. Xia Xu and Yong Yang, Results related to the Huppert's ρ- σ conjecture,Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal , accepted.
2. Yong Yang, On p-groups acting on p，-groups ,Mathematische Nachrichten, accepted.
3. Z. Huang*, T.M. Keller, S. Kissinger*, W. Plotnick*, M. Roma* , Y. Yang, A classification of prime graphs of pseudo-solvable groups, Journal of Group Theory, https://doi.org/10.1515/jgth-2023-0018.
4. Yinling Gao and Yong Yang , Lower bound for the number of conjugacy classes and irreducible characters,Monatshefte für Mathematik, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00605 -023-01860-z.
5. Yong Yang, A characterization of the simple Ree groups 2F4 (q) by their character codegrees , Journal of Group Theory, https://doi.org/10.1515/jgth-2022-0119.
6. Mallory Dolorfino* , Luke Martin* , Zachary Slonim*, Yuxuan Sun* , Yong Yang, On the characterization of sporadic simple groups by codegrees, Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0004972723000187.
7. Yong Yang and Jinbao Li , On large orbits of finite solvable groups on characters,Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S000497272200168X.
8. Awildo Gutierrez* , Yuqiao Huang*, Duncan Peckham*, Yong Yang, On the even abelian composition factors of finite linear groups , Involve , 16 (2023), 265–276.
9. Mallory Dolorfino*, Luke Martin*, Zachary Slonim* , Yuxuan Sun* , Yong Yang, Classifying solvable primitive permutation groups of low rank , Journal of Computational Algebra, 5 (2023), 100005.
10. Haiyan Guan, Xuning Zhang , Yong Yang , Recognizing 2 G2 (q) using the codegree set , Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 108 (2023), 125- 132.
11. Yong Yang, On Gluck’s conjecture , Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques, 183 (2023) , 103235.
12. Thomas M. Keller and Yong Yang, Regular and p-regular orbits of solvable linear groups, II , Algebra Colloquium, 30 (2023), 301-304.
13. Michael Gintz* , Matthew Kortje* , Megan Laurence*, Zili Wang*, Yong Yang , Finite permutation groups with few orbits under the action on the power set, II, Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen, 102 (2023), 237-254.
14. Yinling Gao and Yong Yang , The number of set-orbits of a solvable permutation group , Journal of Group Theory, 26 (2023), 101- 117.
15. Awildo Gutierrez* , Yuqiao Huang*, Nguyen Ngoc Hung , Duncan Peckham*, Yong Yang, A remark on a conjecture of Navarro and Tiep, Communications in Algebra, 51 (2023), 150- 156.
16. Yang Liu and Yong Yang, Huppert ’s analogue conjecture for PSL(3,q) and PSU(3,q) , Results in Mathematics, 78 (2023), Article number: 7.
17. Derek Holt and Yong Yang , Regular orbits of finite primitive solvable groups, the final classification, Journal of Symbolic Computation, 116 (2023) , 139- 145.
18. Xiaoyou Chen, Yong Yang, Notes on normal p-complements and monomial characters , Quaestiones Mathematicae, 45 (2022), 1837- 1840.
19. Ping Jin , Lei Wang, Yong Yang, On a question of Moreto , Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , 106 (2022) , 306-309.
20. Yinling Gao and Yong Yang, Bounding the orders of nilpotent subgroups of solvable linear groups, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 52 (2022), 1605- 1618.
21. Yong Yang , Abelian quotients and orbit sizes of subgroups of solvable linear groups, Communications in Algebra , 50 (2022), 5444-5448.
22. James Cossey and Yong Yang, A bound on the diameter of the Brauer graph of a block of a solvable group , Israel Journal of Mathematics, 250 (2022), 115- 138.
23. Michael Gintz*, Matthew Kortje*, Megan Laurence* , Yang Liu , Zili Wang*, Yong Yang, On the characterization of some non-abelian simple groups with few codegrees , Communications in Algebra , 50 (2022) , 3932-3939.
24. Yong Yang , On the number of prime divisors of character degrees and conjugacy classes of a finite group , Comptes Rendus Mathématique Académie des Sciences Paris, 360 (2022), 583-588.
25. Michael Gintz* , Thomas M. Keller, Matthew Kortje* , Zili Wang*, Yong Yang, The number of set orbits of permutation groups and the group order, Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , 106 (2022), 89- 101.
26. Yong Yang , Alexey Vasil'ev , Evgeny Vdovin, Regular orbits of finite primitive solvable groups, III , Journal of Algebra , 590 (2022), 139- 154.
27. C. Florez* , J. Higgins* , K. Huang* , T. M. Keller, D. Shen*, Y. Yang, On the prime graphs of several classes of finite groups , Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra , 226 (2022), 106990, 19 pp.
28. Yang Liu and Yong Yang, On a conjecture of Navarro and Wolf, Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen, 100 (2022), 495-497.
29. Yanxiong Yan and Yong Yang, Permutation groups and set-orbits on the power set , Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society, 45 (2022), 177- 199.
30. Yang Liu and Yong Yang, On Huppert ’s ρ- σconjecture, Monatsheftefür Mathematik, 197 (2022), 299-309 .
31. Yong Yang, On a result of nilpotent subgroups of solvable groups, International Journal of Group Theory , 11 (2022), 187- 189.
32. Hongfei Pan, Shuqin Dong, Yong Yang, Two results on the character degree sums, Journal of Algebra, 584 (2021), 243-259.
33. Ping Jin and Yong Yang, On irreducible products of characters, Mathematische Nachrichten , 294 (2021) , 2184-2187.
34. Jinbao Li and Yong Yang, Orbit sizes and odd order composition factors of linear groups , Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques, 171 (2021), 103017, 29 pp.
35. Jinbao Li and Yong Yang, On sub-class sizes of mutually permutable products, Open Mathematics, 19 (2021), 238-243 .36. Yong Yang, On class 2 quotients of linear groups , Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , 64 (2021), 590-593.
37. Xiaoyou Chen and Yong Yang, A note on π -partial characters of π-separable groups , Monatsheftefür Mathematik, 196 (2021), 471-475.
38. Ping Jin and Yong Yang, Regular orbits of self-dual modules, Archiv der Mathematik, 116 (2021) 629-635.
39. Hongfei Pan, Nguyen Ngoc Hung, Yong Yang, On the sum of character degrees coprime to p and p-nilpotency of finite groups, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra , 225 (2021), 106691, 14 pp.
40. Ping Jin and Yong Yang, Primitive character degrees of solvable groups , Journal of Algebra, 573 (2021), 532 -538 .
41. Yong Yang, On analogues of Huppert's conjecture , Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , 104 (2021) , 272-277.
42. Nguyen Ngoc Hung, Thomas M. Keller, Yong Yang, A lower bound for the number of odd-degree representations of a finite group, Mathematische Zeitschrift, 298 (2021), 1559- 1572.
43. Yang Liu and Yong Yang , Nonsolvable groups with five character codegrees, Communications in Algebra , 49 (2021) , 1274- 1279.
44. Alexander Betz*, Max Chao-Haft* , Ting Gong* , Thomas M. Keller, Anthony Ter- Saakov* , Yong Yang, Finite permutation groups with few orbits under the action on the power set , Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 51 (2021), 1553- 1565.
45. Wanting Li and Yong Yang, On class sizes and primitive character degrees of p- solvable groups, Communications in Algebra, 49 (2021), 687-689.
46. Nguyen Ngoc Hung and Yong Yang , On the prime divisors of element orders, Mathematische Nachrichten, 294 (2021), 1905- 1911.
47. Jinbao Li and Yong Yang , A characterization of finite soluble groups,Communications in Algebra , 49 (2021) , 310-316.
48. Guohua Qian and Yong Yang, Large orbit sizes in finite group actions , Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 225 (2021), 106458 , 17 pp.
49. Yang Liu and Yong Yang, Nonsolvable groups with four character codegrees, Journal of Algebra and its Applications , 11 (2021), 2150196 , 5 pp.
50. Jinbao Li and Yong Yang, A note on p-parts of Brauer character degrees, Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 103 (2021), 83- 87.
51. Alexander Betz* , Max Chao-Haft*, Ting Gong*, Anthony Ter-Saakov* , Yong Yang, On the odd order composition factors of finite linear groups, Journal of Group Theory , 23 (2020), 1057- 1068.
52. Xiaoyou Chen and Yong Yang, Normal p-complements and monomial characters, Monatsheftefür Mathematik, 193 (2020), 807-810.
53. Christine Bessenrodt and Yong Yang, On p-parts of Brauer character degrees and p- regular conjugacy class sizes of finite groups, Journal of Algebra, 560 (2020), 296- 311.
54. Ping Jin and Yong Yang, A note on larger orbit size, Journal of Group Theory, 23 (2020), 913 -916.
55. Yong Yang, On the number of conjugacy classes of zeros of characters and the length of solvable groups, Communications in Algebra, 48 (2020), 3590 -3593.
56. Yong Yang, Permutation groups and orbits on power set, Journal of Algebra and its Applications , 19 (2020), 2150005, 11 pp.
57. Ping Jin and Yong Yang, On the intersection of nilpotent Hall π -subgroups, Archiv der Mathematik, 114 (2020), 123- 127.
58. Yong Yang, Arithmetical conditions of orbit sizes of odd order linear groups, Israel Journal of Mathematics, 237 (2020), 1- 14.
59. Nguyen Ngoc Hung and Yong Yang , Abelian subgroups, nilpotent subgroups, and the largest character degree of a finite group, Journal of Algebra, 551 (2020), 285-300.
60. Jinbao Li and Yong Yang, On sse-embedded subgroups of finite groups, Communications in Algebra , 48 (2020), 441-452.
61. Thomas M. Keller and Yong Yang, Abelian quotients and orbit sizes of linear groups, Science China Mathematics , 63 (2020), no. 8, 1523- 1534.
62. Guohua Qian and Yong Yang, On sub-class sizes of finite groups, Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , 108 (2020), 402-411.
63. Yong Yang, On nilpotent group actions on the characters of solvable groups, Algebras and Representation Theory, 23 (2020), 1-6.
64. Guohua Qian and Yong Yang, Finite solvable groups with distinct monomial character degrees, Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, 108 (2020), 387-401.
65. Dermot McCarthy and Yong Yang, On a question of Zhang, Communications in Algebra, 47 (2019), 5133 -5134.
66. Jinbao Li and Yong Yang, A note on p-parts of conjugacy class sizes of finite groups, Journal of Group Theory , 22 (2019), 933-940.
67. Guohua Qian and Yong Yang , The size of the largest conjugacy classes and the nilpotent subgroups of finite groups, Journal of Group Theory , 22 (2019), 267-276.
68. Thomas M. Keller and Yong Yang, On class 2 quotients of solvable linear groups, Journal of Algebra, 509 (2018), 386 -396.
69. Yong Yang and Guohua Qian, On p-parts of conjugacy class sizes of finite groups , Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 97 (2018), 406-411.
70. Guohua Qian and Yong Yang, Permutation characters in finite solvable groups, Communications in Algebra , 46 (2018), 167- 175.
71. Guohua Qian and Yong Yang, The largest character degree, conjugacy class size and subgroups of finite groups, Communications in Algebra , 46 (2018), 2218-2226.
72. Yong Yang and Guohua Qian, On p-parts of character degrees and conjugacy class sizes of finite groups, Advances in Mathematics , 328 (2018), 356-366.
73. Yong Yang, A variation on a theorem of Gluck, Monatshefte für Mathematik, 185 (2018), 159- 162.
74. Byron Gao, Robert Tung, and Yong Yang, Iterative Matrix Correlation for Bisection Clustering, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data , https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8257914
75. Yong Yang and Guohua Qian, The analog of Huppert's conjecture on character codegrees, Journal of Algebra, 478 (2017), 215-219.
76. Yong Yang, The size of the largest conjugacy classes and the Sylow p-subgroups of finite groups , Archiv der Mathematik, 108 (2017), 9- 16.
77. Guohua Qian and Yong Yang, The largest character degree and the Sylow subgroups of finite groups, Journal of Algebra and its Applications, 15 (2016), 1650066 , 12 pp.
78. Thomas M. Keller and Yong Yang, Abelian quotients and orbit sizes of solvable linear groups , Israel Journal of Mathematics, 211 (2016), 23-44 .
79. Guohua Qian and Yong Yang, Nonsolvable groups with no prime dividing three character degrees, Journal of Algebra , 436 (2015), 145- 160.
80. Yong Yang, Blocks of small defect, Journal of Algebra , 429 (2015), 192-212.
81. Thomas M. Keller and Yong Yang, On nilpotent and solvable quotients of primitive groups , Journal of Group Theory, 18 (2015), 553-563.
82. Thomas M. Keller and Yong Yang, Orbits of finite solvable groups on characters, Israel Journal of Mathematics, 199 (2014), 933-940.
83. Paul Lescot, Hung Ngoc Nguyen , Yong Yang, On the commuting probability and supersolvability of finite groups, Monatsheftefür Mathematik, 174 (2014), 567-576.
84. Yong Yang, Large orbits of subgroups of solvable linear groups, Israel Journal of Mathematics , 199 (2014), 345-362.
85. Yong Yang, Solvable permutation groups and orbits on power sets , Communications in Algebra, 42 (2014), 2813-2820.86. Thomas M. Keller and Yong Yang, Regular orbits and p-regular orbits of solvable linear groups, Journal of Algebra , 398 (2014), 509-518.
87. Yong Yang , Large orbits of odd-order subgroups of solvable linear groups , Journal of Algebra, 351 (2012), 220-234.
88. Yong Yang, Orbits of the actions of odd-order solvable groups, Communications in Algebra, 40 (2012), 1- 10.
89. Yong Yang, Regular orbits of finite primitive solvable groups, II , Journal of Algebra , 341 (2011), 23-34.
90. Yong Yang, Large character degrees of solvable 3'-groups , Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society , 139 (2011), 3171-3173.
91. Yong Yang, Regular orbits of nilpotent subgroups of solvable linear groups , Journal of Algebra, 325 (2011), 56-69.
92. Yong Yang, Regular orbits of finite primitive solvable groups, Journal of Algebra , 323 (2010), 2735-2755.
93. Yong Yang, Orbits of the actions of finite solvable groups, Journal of Algebra , 321 (2009), 2012-2021.
B. Works not in Print
1. Invited Talks, Lectures, and Presentations:
• Algebra Seminar, University of Florida , Jan 2023.
• Math Colloquium, University of Florida, Feb 2022.
• Algebra Seminar, University of Florida, April 2021 (online Zoom) .
• Math Colloquium, Henan University of Technology, China, Nov 2020 (online Zoom) .
• Math Colloquium, Shanxi University, China, Aug 2020 (online Zoom) .
• Math Colloquium, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences , China, May 2020 (online Zoom) .
• China-US Group Theory Summit 2019, Texas State University, Aug 2019 .
• Math Colloquium, Southwest University, China, June 2019 .
• Math Colloquium, Shanghai University, China, June 2019 .
• Math Colloquium, Soochow University, China , June 2019 .
• Math Colloquium, Texas Tech University, Nov 2018 .
• Math Colloquium, Yunnan Nationalities (Minzu) University , China, July 2018 .
• Math Colloquium, Southwest University, China, June 2018 .
• Math Colloquium, Shanghai University , China , June 2018 .
• Math Colloquium, Soochow University, China, June 2018 .
• 2018 International Workshop on Groups, Representations and Related Topics (IWGRR), Chongqing, China, May 17-21, 2018.
• Algebra Seminar, University of Florida, April 2017.
• Southern Regional Algebra Conference, University of South Alabama, March 2017 .
• Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar, Texas A&M, Oct 2016.
• The 14th National Conference on Algebra (China) , Invited plenary speaker (45 minutes) , Yangzhou University, China , May 2016.
• Workshop on group theory and related problems, University of Science and Technology of China , May 2016.
• Math. Colloquium , Suchoo University, China, June 2015.
• Math. Colloquium, Changshu Institute of Technology, China, May 2015.
• International Conference on Quantitative Property of Groups and Related Topics, Invited plenary speaker (60 minutes) , Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, China, May 2015 .
• Algebra Seminar, University of Chicago, April 2015.
• Algebra Seminar, University of Florida, Nov 2014.
• Conference dedicated to the 100th birthday celebration of the late Prof. Hsio-Fu Tan, Invited plenary speaker (50 minutes) , Peking University , China , June 2014.
• Math. Colloquium, Changshu Institute of Technology, China, May 2014.
• Math. Colloquium, Suchoo University , China, May 2014.
• Math. Colloquium, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, China, May 2014.
• AMS Sectional Meeting, Invited speaker, University of Akron, Oct. 2012.
• The 31st Ohio State-Denison Mathematics Conference, Ohio State University, May 2012.
• Math. Colloquium , Shanghai Jiaotong University, May 2011.
• CombinaTexas 2011, Sam Houston State University , April 2011.
• AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Notre Dame, Nov. 2010.
• The 30th Ohio State-Denison Mathematics Conference, Ohio State University, May 2010.
• Zassenhaus Group Theory Conference, Franklin & Marshall College, May 2009.
• Glauberman Conference on the local and global analysis of groups, University of Chicago, March 2008.
• Chat Yin Ho Memorial Conference on combinatorics and groups, University of Florida, Jan. 2008.
2. Other Works not in Print:
a. Works submitted or under review
94. Mallory Dolorfino*, Luke Martin*, Zachary Slonim* , Yuxuan Sun* , Yong Yang, Recognizing Alternating groups using the codegree set ,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02663 , submitted.
95. Guohua Qian and Yong Yang, On p-parts of degrees of finite groups, Journal of Algebra, submitted.
96. Fang Bian and Yong Yang, On small orbits of self-dual modules , submitted.
97. Mallory Dolorfino* , Luke Martin* , Zachary Slonim*, Yuxuan Sun* , Yong Yang, On the book thickness of total graphs of commutative rings, submitted.
98. Fang Bian and Yong Yang, On the order of odd-order modules, submitted.
99. Yang Liu and Yong Yang, On codegrees and degrees, submitted.
100.Yang Liu and Yong Yang, On p-parts of monomial characters of solvable groups, submitted.
101.Yinling Gao and Yong Yang, The number of set-orbits of a solvable permutation group of odd order, submitted.
102.Yang Liu and Yong Yang, Two results about character codegrees, submitted.
103.Anakin Dey* , Kolton O'Neal* , Duc Van Khanh Tran* , Camron Upshur*, and Yong Yang, Classifying primitive solvable permutation groups of rank 5 and 6 , submitted.
b. Works in progress
104.Xia Xu and Yong Yang, Abelian quotient of subgroups of solvable linear groups and the largest orbit size, in preparation.
105.Yong Yang, On p-parts of conjugacy class sizes of finite groups , in preparation.
106.Yinling Gao and Yong Yang, A lower bound for the number of p，-degree representations of a finite solvable group , preprint.
107.James Cossey and Yong Yang, On Brauer character graphs of solvable groups, in preparation.
108.Heng Lv and Yong Yang, On codegree and Fitting height of solvable groups , in preparation.
109.N. Akula*, N.N. Hung, M. Lideros*, K. O'Connor*, Y. Yang, On conjugacy classes of varying p-regularity level, in preparation.
110.Yong Yang, Large orbits of Hall subgroups of solvable linear groups, in preparation in overleaf.
111.Jinbao Li and Yong Yang, Recognizing simple groups using sub-class size, in preparation.
112.Yong Yang, Heights of characters in 2-blocks of solvable groups, in preparation.
113.Ping Jin and Yong Yang, On Engel elements and a Hall-Higman type Theorem, in preparation.
114.Yong Yang , On p-parts of character degrees of finite solvable groups, p2 and p3 and p4 , in preparation.
115.Yong Yang, The prime-power hypothesis and solvable groups, in preparation.
116.Yong Yang, Lower bound on the number of conjugacy classes of finite solvable groups , preprint.
117.Nguyen Ngoc Hung and Yong Yang, On codegrees and element orders, in preparation.
118.Yong Yang, Regular orbits of nilpotent subgroups of solvable linear groups , II with applications, in preparation.
119.Yong Yang, Orbits of nilpotent group actions, improving a result of Isaacs, preprint. 120.Yong Yang, On codegree version of the Huppert ’s ρ- σconjecture, in preparation. 121.Yang Liu and Yong Yang , On covering number of finite groups, in preparation.
122.Yong Yang, On covering number of codegree of finite groups, in preparation.
123.Hung Tong-Viet and Yong Yang , On covering number of conjugacy classes of finite groups, in preparation.
124.Yong Yang, On Huppert ’s ρ- σconjecture of conjugacy class size, in preparation.
125.Fang Bian and Yong Yang, Regular orbits of groups act on extra-special groups, in preparation.
126.Nguyen Ngoc Hung and Yong Yang, On the number of representations of a finite group , in preparation.
127.Xiaoyou Chen and Yong Yang, Monomial characters in the principal p-block, in preparation.
128.Yong Yang, On the 3 ’ abelian composition factors of finite linear groups , in preparation.
129.Yong Yang, On the non-vanishing element conjecture , in preparation.
130.Thomas M. Keller and Yong Yang, Large orbits of p-groups on characters , in preparation.
131.Mengxi You and Yong Yang, The rank of a finite primitive solvable permutation group , preprint.
132.Yong Yang, A note on p-parts of character degrees and conjugacy class sizes of finite groups , in preparation.
133.Yong Yang, On coprime quotients of linear groups, in preparation.
134.Yong Yang, The modular version of Gluck’s conjecture for p-solvable groups , in preparation.
135.Yong Yang, On the number of character degrees of supersolvable groups, preprint. 136.Yong Yang, Blocks of small defect of finite groups , in preparation.
137.Yong Yang, Blocks of small defect of p-nilpotent groups, in preparation.
138.Yong Yang, Blocks of small defect, II, orbit balance method, in preparation.
139.Yong Yang, On Gluck’s conjecture when the module is a direct product , preprint.
140.Yong Yang, On the modular version of the Huppert’s ρ- σconjecture , in preparation. 141.Yong Yang, Abelian quotients and abelian subgroups of finite groups, in preparation. 142.Yong Yang, On Gluck’s conjecture without some special groups , in preparation.
143.Yong Yang, On generalized Gluck’s conjecture with abelian Sylow 2-subgroups, in preparation.
144.Yong Yang, On Gluck’s conjecture , II, in preparation.
145.Yong Yang, Arithmetical conditions of orbit sizes of 3 ’ solvable linear groups , in preparation.
146.Yong Yang, On coprime linear group actions , in preparation.
147.Yong Yang, On the number of prime divisors of character degrees and conjugacy class sizes of solvable groups, in preparation.
148.Yong Yang, On the number of prime divisors of Brauer character degrees, in preparation.
149.Yong Yang, Orbits of finite groups on characters, preprint.
150.Yong Yang, On large nilpotent quotients and subgroups of linear groups, in preparation.
151.Yong Yang, Cycle structure of affine semi-linear groups , preprint.
152.Yong Yang, On primes dividing character degrees and character orbit sizes, improving a result of Gluck, in preparation.
153.Yong Yang, On p-parts of p-solvable linear groups, in preparation.
154.Yong Yang, Indices of centralizers for Sylow subgroups of linear groups, in preparation.
155.Yong Yang, Character correspondence, degrees, and derived length of solvable groups, in preparation.
156.Yong Yang, On p-parts of linear groups , small prime, in preparation.
157.Yong Yang, Heights of characters in blocks of solvable groups (p-subgroups of solvable linear), in preparation.
158.Yong Yang, Regular orbits of extra-special dual modules, in preparation. 159.Yong Yang, On real sub-classes of finite groups , in preparation.
160.Yong Yang, On the non-vanishing element conjecture for 3’ solvable groups, in preparation.
161.Ping Jin and Yong Yang, On super-monomial characters, in preparation.
162.Nguyen Ngoc Hung and Yong Yang, On the largest Brauer character degree, in preparation.
163.Yang Liu and Yong Yang, On a variation of Huppert’s conjecture in a block, in preparation.
164.Yong Yang, On the average of p’ -Brauer character degrees, in preparation.
165.Ping Jin and Yong Yang, Groups admitting a fixed-point free automorphism of power 2 , in preparation.
C. Grants and Contracts
1. Funded External Grants and Contracts:
NSF China-US Group Theory Summit 2024, # 2317056 (PI), $20,562 2023-2024 Simons Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians, Group actions and group invariants (PI),
#918096, $42,000 AMS-Fan Fund China Exchange Program (co-PI), $5,000 International Mathematical Union Conference Fund (PI), 1,500 Euro NSFC Tianyuan Conference grant (co-PI), CNY 220,000 |
2022-2027
2022-2023 2022 2022 |
NSA REU Site: #H98230-22- 1-0022 (PI), $68,000 |
2022-2024 |
NSF REU Site: Algebra, Combinatorics, and Statistics, #2150205 (PI), $305,417 |
2022-2025 |
AMS-MCA2021 support, $80 |
2021 |
AMS-Fan Fund China Exchange Program (PI), $3,300 |
2021-2023 |
NSA REU Site # H98230-21- 1-0333 (PI), $88, 137 |
2021-2023 |
NSF China-US Group Theory Summit 2019, #1903127 (PI), $15,000 |
2018-2019 |
AMS-Fan Fund China Exchange Program (PI), $5,800 |
2019-2022 |
NSF REU Site: Algebra, Combinatorics, and Statistics, #1757233 (PI), $269,696 |
2018-2023 |
AMS-Fan Fund China Exchange Program (PI), $5,800 |
2018-2021 |
International Mathematical Union Conference Fund (PI), 1,000 Euro 2017-2018
Simons Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians #499532, Arithmetical properties of group
invariants and orbit structure of actions (PI), $42,000 2017-2022
AMS-Simons Travel Grant (PI), $4,800 2012-2015
Visiting Scholar Grant from the China Scholarship Council (faculty mentor for Dr. Yang Liu),
$22,800 2021-2023
Visiting Scholar Grant from the Jiangsu Province, China (faculty mentor for Dr. Hongfei Pan),
$21,600 2019-2020
Visiting Scholar Grant from the China Scholarship Council (faculty mentor for Dr. Jinbao Li),
$21,600 2017-2018
Visiting Scholar Grant from the China Scholarship Council (faculty mentor for Dr. Yanxiong Yan),
$21,600 2017-2018
2. Submitted, but not Funded, External Grants and Contracts:
NSF: Research in Group Representations, $140,000 (PI, not funded) 2023-2025
NSF-RTG: Applications of differential equations to the biological and medical sciences, $1,800,000
(co-PI, not funded) 2022-2027
2021- 2023 LBJ Institute Faculty Research Fellows (PI, not funded) 2021-2023
NSF: Research in Group Representations, #1901851, $110, 109 (PI, not funded) 2019-2022
NSF CAREER: Research in Group Representations, #1844922, $399,608 (PI, not funded) 2019-2024
NSF S-STEM ME-STAR: Mathematics and Engineering Scholarship for Underrepresented Minorities and Women in Advancing to Masters, #1833679, $1,000,000 (Co-PI, not funded) 2018-2023
3. Funded Internal Grants and Contracts:
Research Enhancement Program (PI), $8,000 2017-2018
University Lecturers Series (PI), $900 2017-2018
University Lecturers Series (PI), $500 2018 spring
D. Fellowships, Awards, Honors:
Research Excellence Award - Department of Mathematics 2014
College Achievement Award for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities 2015
Research Excellence Award - Department of Mathematics 2016
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence 2019
Research Excellence Award - Department of Mathematics 2021
College Achievement Award for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities 2022
IV. SERVICE
A. Institutional
1. College:
COSE Graduate Scholarship Committee 2016-2022
2. Department/School:
Award Committee 2013-2022
Colloquium Committee (chair) 2014-2019
Lecturer Hiring Committee 2021-
Budget Committee 2022-
Co-organizer of the Bing Speaker series 2015 spring
Lecturer Mentor (2015-2016, Jason Juett; 2016-2017, Randy Davila; 2019-2020， Megan Farrell)
Graduate Student Mentor (2017- 2019, James Douthitt, 2020-2021, Bahr Spencer, 2021- 2022, Joshua Balboa)
Make and Grade Algebra Comprehensive Exams Jan 2019, May 2019, and
Dec 2019
Bobcat Day Math Department Representative Oct 18 and April 5, 2014
Open House table host Oct 17, 2014, Oct 16, 2015 and Nov 18, 2016
Open House poster presenter Oct 17, 2014, Oct 16, 2015, and Nov 8, 2019
Open House award committee representative Nov 18, 2016
Proctored a math PhD qualifying exam Aug 24, 2015
Applied for the University Lecturers Series, $3000 (not funded) Feb, 2016
Applied for the University Lecturers Series, $2000 (partially funded) Jan, 2017
Applied for the University Lecturers Series, $500 (funded) Oct, 2017
Applied for the University Lecturers Series, $2000 (not funded) Jan, 2018
Applied for the University Lecturers Series, $2000 (not funded) Jan, 2019
Applied for the Common Experience Event Grant $1000 (not funded) Jan, 2019
Applied for the University Lecturers Series, $2000 (not funded) Jan, 2020
Applied for the University Lecturers Series, $1000 (pending) Oct, 2021
Applied for the University Lecturers Series, $1100 (pending) Oct, 2021
Drove a candidate who came for interview back to airport Feb, 2016
Presenter for Math Award day April 8, 2016 and April 7, 2017
Toured facilities for the PRT Members of the Academic Program Review Jan, 2017
Substituted more than 10 times for various faculty members 2013-present
B. Professional:
National Science Foundation review panel 2019
AMS JMM Travel Grants Committee (appointed by the AMS President) 2018-2022
AMS JMM Travel Grants Committee Chair (appointed by the AMS President) 2020-2021
Lead Conference Organizer: 2018 International Workshop on Groups, Representations and Related Topics (IWGRR), May 17-21, 2018, Chongqing, China (50 talks, about 140 participants, supported by the International Mathematical Union)
Lead Conference Organizer: China-US Group Theory Summit 2019, August 22-25, 2019, Texas State University, USA. (34 talks, about 50 participants, supported by the NSF)
Lead Conference Organizer: Tianyuan International Workshop on Groups and Representations and the Applications, Nov 2022, China. (20 talks, about 80 participants, supported by theNSFC and the International Mathematical Union)
Lead Conference Organizer: China-US Group Theory Summit 2024, Feb 21-25, 2024, University of Florida, USA. (supported by the NSF)
Lead Conference Organizer: Zassenhaus Groups and Friends Conference, June 7-9, 2024, Texas State University, USA.
Editor of the Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society (SCI) 2019-2022
(handle about 20 papers each year)
From spring 2014 to the present, I reviewed an average of three articles per year for various journals (listed below).
Referee for Journal of Algebra, Mathematische Zeitschrift, Israel Journal of Mathematics, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh: Proceedings A, Finite Fields and their Applications, SCIENCE CHINA Mathematics, Journal of Group Theory, Communications in Algebra, Journal of Algebra and its Applications, JP Journal of Algebra, American Mathematical Monthly, Frontiers of Mathematics in China, Turkish Journal of Mathematics, International Electronic Journal of Algebra, AIMS Mathematics, Acta Math Sinica English Series, Algebra Colloquium, Journal of Mathematics
Reviewer forAMS MathSciNet Mathematical review (Since 2013 to the present, I reviewed about 2 papers per year for the MathSciNet).
Reviewer for NSA Grant (2014)
Reviewer for Chinese NSF Grant (2016-2019)
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