Dr. Rong Luo
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Education
Ph.D in Mathematics, May 2002, West Virginia University (Jan. 1999 ---May 2002)
M.S. in Computer Science, May 2002, West Virginia University (Jan., 2001—May, 2002)
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, Dec. 1998, University of Science and Technology of China (Sept., 1996—Dec. 1998)
B.S. in Applied Mathematics, July 1996, University of Science and Technology of China (Sept.1992 –July, 1996)
Experience
Associate Professor, August 2007--- Present, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Middle Tennessee State University
Assistant Professor, August 2002-- July 2007, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Middle Tennessee State University
Honors and Awards:
Distinguished Research Award, 2006-2007, Middle Tennessee State University
Research Interests: Graph Theory, Combinatorial Matrix Theory, Mathematical Chemistry
Selected Publications
Yinmei Cao, Anhua Lin, Rong Luo, and Xiaoya Zha, On the
minimal energy of unicyclic Huckel molecular graphs possessing Kekule
structures, to appear in
Discrete Applied Mathematics.
Anhua Lin, Rong Luo, and Xiaoya Zha, Generalized topological indices of unicycle graphs, to appear in Applied Mathematics Letter.
Rong Luo and Yue Zhao, An application of Vizing and Vizing-like adjacency lemmas to Vizing's Independence Number Conjecture of edge chromatic critical graphs, to appear in Discrete Mathematics.
Rong Luo, Lianyin Miao, and Yue Zhao, The size of edge chromatic critical graphs with maximum degree six, to appear in Journal of Graph Theory.
Anhua Lin, Rong Luo, Donard A. Nelson, and Xiaoya Zha, The second largest Randic index of quasi-tree graphs, Monographs on Mathematical Chemistry 6 `` Recent Results in theTheory of Randic Index'', pp. 91-108, 2008.
Anhua Lin, Rong Luo, and Xiaoya Zha, A sharp lower
bound of the Randic index of cacti with r pendants, Discrete
Applied Mathematics 156 (2008)
1725-1735.
Rong Luo and Yue Zhao, Finding the exact bound of the maximum degrees of class two graphs embeddable in a surface of characteristic in {-1,-2,-3}, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B. 98 (2008) 707-720.
Rong Luo, Rui Xu, Wenan Zang, and Cun-Quan Zhang, Realizing degree sequences with graphs having nowhere-zero 3-flows, SIAM J. on Discrete Mathematics 22 (2008) 500-519.
Rong Luo, Rui Xu, Jianhua Yin, and Gexin Yu, Z_3-connected graphs satisfying Ore-Condition, European J. of Combinatorics 29 (2008) 1587-1595.
Guoqiang Song, Anhua Lin, Rong Luo, and Xiaoya Zha,
Randic index of unicycle graphs with a k-cycle, MATCH.
Communication in
Mathematics and Computational Chemistry 58 (2007) 113-125.
Xuechao Li, Rong Luo, and Jianbing Niu, A note on class one graphs with maximum degree six, Discrete Math. 306 (2006) 1450-1455 .
Rong Luo and Yue Zhao, A note on Vizing's conjecture on the independence number of an edge chromatic critical graphs, Discrete Math. 306 (2006) 1788-1790.
K Kawarabayashi, Rong Luo, J Niu, and Cun-Quan ZhangK_p-minors in p-connected graphs, European Journal of Combinatorics 26 (2005) 293--308.
Rong Luo and Cun-Quan Zhang, Edge-face chromatic number and edge-chromatic number, Journal of Graph Theory 49 (2005) 234-256.
Rong Luo, Wenan Zang, and Cun-Quan Zhang, Nowhere-zero 4-flows, simultaneous edge-colorings, and critical partial Latin squares, Combinatorica 24(2004) 641-657.
Jiongsheng Li, Zixia Song, and Rong Luo, The Erdos-Jacobson-Lehel conjecture on potentially P_k-graphic sequences is true, Sci. China Ser. A 41(1998) 510-520.
For a complete list of publications see my C.V.