Donald E. Ramirez

PERSONAL

Name: Donald Edward Ramirez

Citizenship: United States

Office Address:
   University of Virginia
   Department of Mathematics
   Kerchof Hall
   P. O. Box 400137
   Charlottesville, VA 22904-4137

Office Fax: (434) 982-3084

Email: der@virginia.edu

Home Page:https://uva.theopenscholar.com/ramirez#

EDUCATION

1963 Bachelor of Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

1966 Ph.D. in Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

SPECIAL AREAS OF INTEREST

Mathematical Statistics and Abstract Harmonic Analysis

AWARDS AND INVITED ADDRESSES

1963 Woodrow Wilson Fellow

1963 NSF Graduate Fellowship, Tulane University

1966-67 Office of Naval Research Associate, University of Washington

1967 Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

1969 Colloquium, Wesleyan University

1969 Invited Speaker, Harmonic Analysis Conference, Oberwolfach, Germany

1971 Sesquicentennial Associate of the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia

1971 Invited Speaker, International Conference on Harmonic Analysis, University of Maryland

1971 Associate Professor, University of Virginia

1973 Invited Speaker, AMS Conference on Harmonic Analysis, Evanston, Illinois

1973 Invited Speaker, AMS Conference on Topological Semigroups, San Francisco, California

1974 Invited Speaker, Special Functions Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

1975 Invited Speaker, Symposium in Memory of Pasquale Porcelli, University of Houston

1975 Invited Speaker, Research Workshop On Almost Periodicity, Virginia Commonwealth University

1975 Editor, Semigroup Forum

1976 Invited Speaker, AMS Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, Rome, Italy

1976 Editor, Semigroup Forum

1980 Invited Speaker, AMS Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, Evanston, Illinois

1980 Editor, Semigroup Forum

1981 Invited Speaker, AMS Conference on Harmonic Analysis, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1981 Invited Speaker, International Conference on Semigroup, Szegad, Hungary

1981 Invited Speaker, Semigroup Conference, Oberwolfach, Germany

1981 Editor, Semigroup Forum

1982 Editor, Semigroup Forum

1983 Director of the Statistics Forum, University of Virginia

1983 Vice-Chairman of the Virginia Academy of Science Statistics Council, the Virginia Chapter of the American Statistical Association

1983 Editor, Semigroup Forum

1984 Panelist, Virginia Academy of Science, Richmond, Virginia on "What Statistics Courses Should be Taught at the Undergraduate and Master's Levels?"

1984 Invited Speaker, Virginia Chapter of the ASA, Richmond, Virginia.

1984 Invited Commencement Speaker, 25th Graduating Class of the Benjamin Franklin Senior High School, New Orleans, Louisiana

1984 Director of the Statistics Forum, University of Virginia

1984 Invited Participant, Symposium on Harmonic Analysis on Semigroups, Virginia Commonwealth University

1984 Vice-Chairman of the Virginia Academy of Science Statistics Council

1984 Vice-President of the Virginia Chapter of the American Statistical Association

1984 Editor, Semigroup Forum

1985 Invited Speaker, Pennsylvania State University

1985 Invited Speaker, Virginia Chapter of the ASA, Williamsburg, Virginia

1985 Invited Panelist on Statistics Education, Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Las Vegas

1985 Editor, Semigroup Forum

1986 Sesquicentennial Associate of the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia

1986 Editor, Semigroup Forum

1986 Invited Speaker, Advanced Symposium on Multivariate Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis, James Madison University

1986 Invited Speaker, Statistical Modeling and Model Evaluation, Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Toronto, Canada

1987 Editor, Semigroup Forum

1987 Invited Speaker, Conference on Algebraic Theory of Semigroups and Applications, Vienna, Austria

1988 Acting Director, Statistics Forum, University of Virginia

1988 Invited Speaker, University of Colorado

1988 Invited Speaker, Virginia Tech

1988 Editor, Semigroup Forum

1989 Invited Participant, Conference on Modern Computer Intensive Methods for Exploring and Modeling Multivariate Data, George Washington University

1990 Invited Participant, NSF Summer Workshop on Statistical Process Control Techniques, University of Tennessee

1991 Sesquicentennial Associate for the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia

Invited Speaker, Virginia Tech

1991 Virginia Academy of Sciences Representative to the American Statistical Association

1992 Invited to the International Conference in Modern Analysis and Applications, New Delhi

1993 Invited Speaker, Medical College of Virginia

1993 Invited Participant, National Center for Education Statistics Conference on Longitudinal Study of Teacher Supply, Demand, and Quality, Washington, DC

1995 Invited Speaker, Session on Recent Advancements in Multivariate Statistics, Southern Research Council on Statistics (SRCOS/ASA), Melbourne, Florida

1995 Invited Speaker, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

1996 Full Professor, University of Virginia

1996 Invited speaker, Symposium on Computational Statistics, Barcelona, Spain

1996 Invited speaker, annual meeting of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the North American Association of Summer Session, Charlottesville, VA

1996 President of the Virginia Academy of Science Statistics Section

1997 Colloquium speaker, Virginia Tech

1997 Contributed paper, Symposium on Computing Science and Statistics, Houston, Texas

1997 Contributed paper, Virginia Academy of Science Statistics Section and the Virginia Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Blacksburg, VA

1997 President of the Virginia Academy of Science Statistics Section

1997 Sesquicentennial Associate of the Center for Advanced Studies

1998 UVa USEM Summer Research Grant

1999 Invited reviewer of the statistics program at Mary Imaculate College, Limerick

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Statistical Association

Virginia Academy of Science

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

1999-2000 Chair, College Committee Education Policy and the Curriculum

1999-present Steering Committee , Center for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Education

1998-present Actuarial Major Advisor

1996-present Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee for the Summer Session

1995-present College Committee Education Policy and the Curriculum

1982-present Faculty Advisory Committee on the Summer Session

1980-present Summer Chairman, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia

1990-present University Faculty Associate

1988 Acting Director of the University of Virginia's Statistics Forum

1986 Faculty Advising Committee to the U.Va. Honor Committee

1980-85 Director of Undergraduate Studies in Mathematics

1985 Member of the Honor Committee's Faculty Advisory Panel

1984 Member of the Dean of the Faculty's Committee on Cheating and Plagiarism

1982-84 Director of the University's Statistics Forum

1982-83 Associate Provost's Computer Action Group

1982-83 President's Council on Academic Computing

1981 University's Computer Committee

1976-81 President's Procession Committee

1973-74 Steering Council of the Learning Enrichment Program

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

1999-present Associate Chair, Mathematics Department

1996-present Mathematics Department Actuarial Major Advisor

1996-present Mathematics Department Lower Division Committee

1996-present Mathematics Department Computer Committee

1992-present Mathematics Department Transfer Credit Advisor

1981 Organized the Scientific Computing Minor

Designed the Mathematics Department course evaluation and software

Instrumental in introducing MATH 105, 112, 200, 205, 206, 512, 513

ACADEMIC SERVICE

1996-1997 President of the Virginia Academy of Science Statistics Section

1989-91 VAS Representative to the American Statistical Association

1985-86 Counselor to the American Statistical Association

1986 Board Member, Virginia Academy of Science

1986 Member, American Statistical Association Subcommittee on Undergraduate Programs in Statistics

1974-88 Editor, Semigroup Forum

1983-85 Vice-President, Virginia Chapter of the A.S.A.

1983-85 Vice-President, Statistics Chapter of the V.A.S.

HONORS

1972 Sesquicentennial Associate of the Center for Advanced Studies

1986 Sesquicentennial Associate of the Center for Advanced Studies

1991 Sesquicentennial Associate of the Center for Advanced Studies

1997 Sesquicentennial Associate of the Center for Advanced Studies

RECENT RESEARCH SUPPORT

1983-84 Funds for Excellent Project, Virginia State Council of Higher Education

1985-86 Biomedical Research Support Grant (BRSG) No. 5-24867 at the University of Virginia

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

Proficient in BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal, C, SPSS, BMDP, SAS

Published BASIC Programs:

LINPRO - a linear programming algorithm published in the Hewlett-Packard contributed software library

SIMP - an algorithm for solving simplex tableaux, matrix games, and best-fit of linear equations published in the Hewlett-Packard contributed software library

Published FORTRAN Programs

BFSOLV - an algorithm to compute the adjusted likelihood ratio test for the Behrens-Fisher problem

UTRANS - an algorithm to convert skewed multivariate data to nearly normal data

MTRANS - an algorithm to convert skewed multivariate data to nearly normal data jointly

FACAIC - an algorithm to find the number of factors in a factor analysis model using information criteria

FSCORE - an algorithm to compute factor scores

SMOOTH - an algorithm to smooth data with monotone splines

QPOWER - an algorithm to convert data to nearly quadratic data

T2BNDSS - an algorithm to compute descriptive levels for Hotelling's T2 under misspecification

ELLPTIC - an algorithm to compute the mean radius and surface measure of an ellipsoid

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Masters of Arts
1968 Catherine Bobzien
1970 David Copper

Masters of Science (with a concentration in Statistics)
1983 Elizabeth Claus
1986 Larry Bobbitt
1986 Jeffrey Tucker
1988 Mary Ann Duchna
1988 Clark Gaylord

Doctor of Philosophy
1970 Joseph Kent (with James England)

BIOMEDICAL CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Dr. Harold Wanebo, M.D.
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Virginia Medical Center
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
   (a) Parametric Weibull model for censored cancer data
   (b) Discriminant analysis on cancer patients
   (c) Multiple comparisons of responses in a block design model

Dr. R. Brent Harrison, M.D.
Department of Radiology
University of Virginia Medical Center
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
   (a) Quantile estimation of censored data

Dr. Richard Lees, M.D.
Department of Radiology
University of Virginia Medical Center
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
   (a) Estimation of liver volume using cross-sectional farasrom ultrasonic images
   (b) Prediction of liver volume from age, sex, height, and weight measurements

Dr. Wallace C. Nunley, M.D.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Virginia Medical Center
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
   (a) Regression models for clomiphone citrate

Ms. Elizabeth Woodruff
Penn, Stuart, Eskridge and Jones
P.O. Box 749
Abingdon, Virginia 24210
   (a) Comparison of two different techniques for measuring arterial blood gas values in coal miners

Dr. Robert S. Brown, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry
University of Virginia Medical Center
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
   (a) Factor analysis of the Zung depression inventory
   (b) Study of the role of exercise in the treatment of depression in college-age patients
   (c) Designed the computer-aided test program for EDHS 482

MILITARY CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Mr. Elden Wright
General Research Corporation
7655 Old Springhouse Road
McLean, Virginia 22102
   (a) Officer Projection Aggregate Level System (9/86 - 9/87)

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

Designed a bivariate central chart program for Metal Spray of Richmond for their quality control program (1994).