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Papers and Such ...

Papers ...

• Russell, James E.; Saum, Michael; and Williams, Rebekah (2022) Elevated Substitution Rates Among Wolbachia-infected Mosquito Species Results in Apparent Phylogenetic Discordance., Georgia Journal of Science, Vol. 80, No. 2, Article 8. https://digitalcommons.gaacademy.org/gjs/vol80/iss2/8
• Hurst-Kennedy, J., Saum, M. et al. The Impact of a Semester-Long, Cell Culture and Fluorescence Microscopy CURE on Learning and Attitudes in an Underrepresented STEM Student Population J. Microbiol. Biol. Educ. April 2020 Vol. 21 No. 1 dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v21i1.2001
• Russell JE, Nunney L, Saum M, Stouthamer R. Host and symbiont genetic contributions to fitness in a Trichogramma–Wolbachia symbiosis. PeerJ 6:e4655 April, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4655
• James E. Russell, Michael Saum, Victoria Burgess, Keval Bollavaram, Tyler Donnell; Influence of Parthenogenesis-Inducing Wolbachia Infection and Sexual Mode on Trichogramma kaykai (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) Fitness, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 110, Issue 3, 1 May 2017, Pages 263–268, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saw093
• M.A. Saum and T.P. Schulze and C. Ratsch, Inverted List Kinetic Monte Carlo with Rejection applied to Directed Self-Assembly of Epitaxial Growth, Communications in Computational Physics 6 (2009) 553-564.
• M.A. Saum and T.P. Schulze, The Role of Processing Speed in Determining Step Patterns During Directional Epitaxy, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B 11 (2009) 443-457.
• M.A.Saum and S. Gavrilets, CA Simulation of Biological Evolution in Genetic Hyperspace, El Yacoubi, S., Chopard, B. and Bandini, S. (eds.) Cellular Automata. Springer, Berlin. pp.3-12, 2006.
• M.A. Saum and T.R. Young, Observed Rotation Numbers in Families of Circle Maps, Intl. J. Bif. Chaos, Volume 11, No. 1, pp. 73--89, 2001.

Miscellaneous ...

• M. Saum, The Mathematics of Georgia KENO, self published, 10/03/2026.

PhD ...

• Dissertation: Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Second and Fourth Order Elliptic Partial Di erential Equations, August, 2006
• Dissertation Defense Presentation, June 9, 2006

Talks/Presentations ...

• Presentations with LaTeX: Tips and Tricks, MA 598 Guest Lecture, October 2007 TeX File
• Pattern Formation During Directional Epitaxy, Sixth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Zurich, July 16--20, 2007
• The Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method, MA 574 Guest Lecture, April 2006
• Optimizing Floating Point Calculations II, Department Seminar, March 2006
• Optimizing Floating Point Calculations I, Department Seminar, February 2006
• An Adaptive Marking Strategy for Discontinuous Galerkin Methods, SIAM-SEAS, Charleston, SC, March 2005
• Data Processing for Mathematicians, Department Seminar, October 2004
• UNIX and C, Department Seminar, September 2004
• Intermediate LaTeX II, Department Seminar, February 2003
• Intermediate LaTeX I, Department Seminar, February 2003
• Basic LaTeX, Department Seminar, January 2003
• EvCl and NetSolve, ICL Friday Lunch, May 10, 2002