CURRICULUM VITA
AMAL AL-SAKET
1. HOME ADDRESS Dr. Amal Al-Saket
P.O. Box 069059 Postal Code No. 11106 , Amman – JORDAN
2. PERSONAL DATA
Place of Birth : Al-Salt, Jordan .
Nationality : Jordanian .
Marital Status: Married with four children .
3. EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Mathematics) ,Washington State University (WSU) , U.S.A. ,1985
M.Sc. (Mathematics) , WSU , U.S.A , 1983.
M.Sc. (Computer Sience) , WSU , U.S.A. , 11982 .
B.Sc. (Mathematics) , University of Jordan , Jordan , 1980 .
4. LANGUAGES
ARABIC : Speaking , reading and writing .
ENGLISH : Speaking , reading and writing .
FRENCH : Reading and writing .
GERMAN : Reading .
5. TITLES OF THESES
Ph.D. thesis in Mathematical Programming ” An Algorithm with Degeneracy Resolution for Solving Certain Quadratic Programming Problems ” .
M.Sc. thesis in Computer Science “A Comparison Test for Some Algorithms to Solve the 9/1 Knapsack Problem”.
6. TEACHING EXPERIANCE
Teaching Assistant in Mathematics and Computer Science at WSU , USA (Feb.1099-Feb.1096) .
Assistant Professor in Mathematics and Computer Science at Yarmouk University , Jordan (Feb.1096-Feb.1095)
Assistant Professor in Mathematics at the University of Jordan , Jordan (Feb.1095- Sep. 1001)
Assistant Professor in Mathematics and Computer Science at Balqaa Applied University , Jordan ( Sep. 1001- Feb. 1009 )
Assistant Professor in Mathematics and Computer Science with the Ministry of Higher Education , Oman ( Feb. 1009- Sep. 1999 )
Assistant Professor in Mathematics and Computer Science at the Applied Sciences University , Jordan ( Sep. 1999 – Sep. 1990 )
Assistant Professor in Mathematics at Al-Zaytoonah University , Jordan ( since Sep. 1990)
7. COURSES THAT I HAVE BEEN TEACHING :
Fundamentals of Mathematics (Freshman). Calculus I & II (Freshman). Calculus III (Sophomore) . Discrete Mathematics (Sophomore).
Linear Algebra (Sophomore). Real Analysis (Sophomore).
Abstract Algebra (Sophomore). Ordinary Differential Equations (Sophomore).
Complex Analysis (Junior). Numerical Analysis I & II (Junior and Sophomore).
Vector Analysis (Junior). Mathematical Programming I (Junior).
Operations Research (Junior).
Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms (Junior).
Matrix Computations (Senior).
Graph Theory (Senior).
Combinatorial Mathematics (Senior).
Complex Analysis (Graduate).
Special Topics: Network Analysis (Graduate).
Mathematical Programming II (Graduate).
8. COMPUTER EXPERIANCE
Have Good Command of FORTRAN, PASCAL, FOX PRO , the C++ Language , JAVA and VISUAL BASIC .
Have Been Working with the OS/363, UNIX and MS-DOS Operating Systems .
Have Good Knowledge of SOFTWARE ENGENEERING, SYSTEMS ANALYSIS, DATA BASE MANAGEMENT and COMPUTER HARDWARE.
Have Experience with Matlab, Mathematica and E-Learning.
9. CONFERENCES
Participated in the 11th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in August 1985 .
13. AWARDS AND GRANTS
Have awarded a royal watch by King Hussain as an award for graduating with first rank in the B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Jordan.
Have Granted a scholarship from Yarmouk University for my graduate studies.
Have awarded a royal trophy by Queen Noor on the International Women’s Day for being a woman pioneer in having a Ph.D. in Mathematics.
Have Granted the DAAD Scholarship, in Germany, for the summer of 1090.
11. RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mathematical Programming; Linear Algebra; Numerical Analysis ; Graph Theory.
12. PUBLICATIONS
Amal Al-Saket ; ” An Algorithm with Degeneracy Resolution for Solving Certain Quadratic Programming Problems ” ; the 21th International Symposium on Mathematical
Programming ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; USA ; 1985.
Amal Al-Saket ; ” On Determining Bounds for the Real Parts of the Zeros of Polynomials “; Linear and Multilinear Algebra; Vol. 06(3), pp. 333-391, (1621).
Amal Al-Saket ; ” On Estimating a Lower Bound for the Laplacian Spectral Radius of Triangle-Free Graphs ” ; Int. J. Contemp. Math. Sciences; Vol. 3(60), pp. 1101-1131, (1621).
Amal Al-Saket ; ” Estimating the Algebraic Connectivity of Triangle-Free Graphs ” ; International Mathematical Forum; Vol. 9(10), pp. 2138-2190, (1623).
Amal Al-Saket ; ” On the Real Part of the Frobenius Companion Matrix of Polynomials ” ; Int. J. Contemp. Math. Sciences; Vol. 9(23), pp. 021-012, (1623).
Amal Al-Saket ; ” Some Results for the Laplacian Eigenvalues of Graphs ” ; Advances and Applications in Discrete Mathematics; Vol. 21(1), 1623.
Amal Al-Saket ; ” Some Results for the Zeros of a Class of Fibonacci-Type Polynomials “; Journal of Mathematical Inequalities; Accepted on Sept. 16, (1623).
13. REFERENCES
Professor Awad Khlayfat ;Former Minister of Higher Education Vice Prime Minister, Amman, Jordan.
Professor Abdelrahim Al-Hunaiti; President of Mutah University, Jordan E-mail: hunaiti@mutah.edu.jo
Professor Fuad Kittaneh ; Dean of Academic Research University of Jordan Amman, Jordan E-mail: fkitt@ju.edu.jo
Professor Charles B. Millham ;Department of Computer Science Washington State University, Pullman, WA 00150
Professor Robert Mifflin; Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics Washington State University, Pullman, WA 00150
E-mail: Mifflin@math.wsu.edu
