Biography
Dr. Zhibo Chen received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1991, and has been teaching mathematics at Penn State Greater Allegheny since then. He was promoted to full professor in 2004.
Dr. Chen teaches math courses for engineering and science majors, and supervised undergraduate research. His research interests lie in the fields of discrete mathematics including combinatorics, graph theory with applications in theoretical chemistry. He has published over 50 peer reviewed journal papers including several joint work with his undergraduate students on campus.
| Class | Class Title | Days & Times | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATH 140-001 | Calc Anly Geom I (Lecture) | Mo Tu We Th 8:00AM - 8:50AM | Frable Building 208 |
| MATH 220-001 | Matrices (Lecture) | Tu Th 10:35AM - 11:50AM | Frable Building 208 |
| MATH 250-001 | Ord Diff Equations (Lecture) | Mo Tu We 9:05AM - 9:55AM | Frable Building 208 |
| MATH 251-001 | Ord and Part Diff Eq (Lecture) | Mo Tu We Th 9:05AM - 9:55AM | Frable Building 208 |
| OFFICE HOURS | Mo We 10:05-12:05 |
Research Interests
Discrete mathematics including combinatorics, graphy theory with applications in theoretical chemistry
Publications
Recent publications:
Minimum order of r-regular bipartite graphs of pair length k, Australasian J. of Combinatorics, Vol 66(1), 2016, 50-65 (joint with Zhongyuan Che)
Lower and Upper Bounds of the Forgotten Topological Index. MATCH Commun. Math. Comput. Chem, Vol 76(3), 2016, 635-648 (joint with Zhongyuan Che)
Sharp bounds on the size of pairable graphs and pairable bipartite graphs. The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 62, (2015) 172-183. (joint with Zhongyuan Che)
Ramsey Numbers, Graph Eigenvalues, and a Conjecture of Cao and Yuan, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 458(1) (2014) 526–533. (joint with Fuji Zhang)
A Pascal-like triangles from finding power sums, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology,45(6), (2014) 932-938.
Forcing faces in plane bipartite graphs (II), Discrete Applied Mathematics 161 (1-2), (2013) 71-80. (joint with Zhongyuan Che)
Conjugated circuits and forcing edges. MATCH Commun. Math. Comput. Chem. 69(3), (2013) 721-732. (joint with Zhongyuan Che)
Education
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh