Cayla McBee

Associate Professor

Contact Information:

cmcbee@providence.edu

401.865.2639

Howley Hall 211

Education:

Ph.D. - Colorado State University

Area(s) of Expertise:

Combinatorial Phylogenetics (especially inference of phylogenetic relationships from molecular data using models of evolutionary change), Combinatorial Optimization, Graph Theory

Selected Publications:

Berliner, A. Dean, N. Hook, J. Marr, A. Mbirika, A. McBee, C. (2016) Coprime and prime labelings of graphs. Journal of Integer Sequences .(19), 14 pp.

McBee, C. Penttila, T. (2016) Remarks on Hadamard conjugation and combinatorial phylogenetics. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics.(66), 177-191.

McBee, C. Vasilevska, V. (2014) Beginning an undergraduate research program . Involve: a journal of mathematics.(7), 395-401.

McBee, C. (2012) Generalizing Fourier calculus on evolutionary trees to splits networks.

Berliner, A. Dean, N. Hook, J. Marr, A. Mbirika, A. McBee, C. (2012) Sequence A213273.

Ames, G. George, D. Hampson, C. Kanarek, A. McBee, C. Lockwood, D. Achter, J. Webb, A. (2011) Using network properties to predict disease dynamics on human contact networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences.(278), 3544-3550.

Selected Presentations:

McBee, C. Joint Mathematics Meetings. Mathematical Association of America, Atlanta, GA - "A Candy Exchange, Legos and a brand new Car!" January, 2017

McBee, C. Joint Mathematics Meetings. American Mathematical Society, Atlanta, GA - "Prime Labelings of Hypercube Graphs" January, 2017

McBee, C. Mathematics & CS Department Colloquium. Providence College, Providence, RI - "Lions and Tigers and Graph Colorings, Oh my!" October, 2015

McBee, C. Summer Scholars Presentation. , Providence College - "Is it Prime?" February, 2015

McBee, C. Joint Mathematics Meetings. American Mathematical Society, San Antonio, TX - "Prime Graph Labelings" January, 2015

McBee, C. MAA MathFest. Mathematical Association of America, Portlant, OR - "Prime Labelings of Graphs" August, 2014

McBee, C. Joint Mathematics Meetings. Mathematical Association of America , San Diego, CA - "Engaging Calculus Students with Tactile Learning Activities" January, 2013

McBee, C. International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks. , San Marcos, TX - "Generalizing Fourier Calculus on Evolutionary Trees to Splits Networks" December, 2012

McBee , C. Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium. , Providence College - "Ecological Modeling with Graph Theory" November, 2011

McBee , C. . Wheaton College, Norton, MA - "Using mathematics to determine evolutionary relationships" April, 2011

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