John J. Schommer

John J. Schommer joined the UTM faculty in 1994. He has taught at the University of New Orleans , Duke University , and Ohio University . He spent two years teaching in the math department at Central Catholic High School in Portland OR, where he also served as the boys' tennis coach. He, his wife Anne, and their daughter Mary are active members of St. Jude's Catholic Church in Martin. John serves on the board of the Weakley County affiliate of Habitat for Humanity. His major research interests are in point-set topology.

Education

• Ph.D., Mathematics, Ohio University, 1992
  
• M.A., Theology, Franciscan University of Steubenville, 2004
  
• M.S., Mathematics, University of New Orleans, 1983
  
• B.S., Secondary Education, University of New Orleans, 1980
  

Recent Publications

• Maps and f-normal spaces (with B. Mitra), Topology and its Applications, to appear


• Strongly normal semi-continuous functions, Journal of the Tripura Mathematical Society, 6 (2004) 1-10.


• Realcompactness, Encyclopedia of General Topology, (2004) 185-188.


• Contemporary theologians find a use for transfinite cardinals (with Steve Campbell), College Mathematics Journal, 33(4) (2002) 331.
  
• Almost* realcompactness (with M.A. Swardson), Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae, 42(2) (2001) 385-394.
  
• A nearly pseudocompact space, Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science, 74(3-4) (1999) 72-74.
  
• A characterization of realcompactness, Acta Mathematica Hungarica, 72(4) (1996) 319-322.
  
• Weak Forms of Realcompactness, Topology Atlas Invited Contributions, 2,1 (1996) 27-30.
  
• A Fable of Reform, American Mathematical Monthly, 103,2 (1996) 134-142.
  
• Functions with realcompact support, Kyungpook Mathematical Journal, 35,1 (1995) 93-103.
  
• Fast sets and nearly realcompact spaces, Houston Journal of Mathematics, 20 (1994) 161-174.
  
• Relatively realcompact sets and nearly pseudocompact spaces, Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae, 34,2(1993) 375-382.
  

Recent Talks

• Hyper-real maps and nearly realcompact spaces, AMS Southeastern Section Meeting #1004, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KY, March 19, 2005
  
• Is there a fair voting system?, UTM College of Engineering and Natural Science Career Day, September 24, 2004
  
• Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, UTM Philosophy Forum, March 29, 2004
  
• Infinity: One size does not fit all, UTM Journal Club, February 27, 2004
  
• To the Moon, UTM College of Engineering and Natural Science Career Day, September 11, 2003
  
• Mild and Meek Normality, Union University Math Colloquium, April 14, 2003
  
• Mild and Meek Normality, Western Kentucky University Math Colloquium, April 3, 2003
  
• Return of the B.A. in Mathematics, UTM Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium, January 13, 2003.
  
• Infinity All Over Again, UTM Philosophy Forum, September 23, 2002
  
• Mild and Meek Normality, Murray State University Math Colloquium, September 16, 2002
  
• To the Moon, UTM College of Engineering and Natural Science Career Day, September 12, 2002
  
• On Nearly Realcompact Spaces, Annual Spring Topology and Southeast Dynamical Systems Conference, University of Texas at Austin, March 22, 2002
  
• Infinity, UTM Philosophy Forum, January 24, 2002
  
• Maple vs. Third Semester Calculus, UTM Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium, October 18, 2001
  
• Teaching the Foundations, UTM Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium, February 28, 2000
  
• When regular closed sets are supports, Tennessee Academy of Science 109th Meeting, University of Tennessee at Memphis, Memphis TN, November 19, 1999
  
• The B.A. in Mathematics, UTM Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium, February 22, 1999
  
• Almost* Realcompact Spaces, AMS Southeastern Section Meeting #936, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC, October 10, 1998
  
• The Topology Atlas, "Changing Models of Scholarship in the 21st Century", Year of the Scholar Panel Discussion I, UTM, November 12, 1997
  

Professional Associations

• American Mathematical Society
• Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
• Tennessee Academy of Science

Spring 2006 Courses

• Math 160 Calculus for Business and Life Sciences
  
• Math 251 Calculus I
  
• Math 410 Geometry