Melissa S. Keranen

$Melissa S. Keranen$

Contact

msjukuri@mtu.edu
906-487-2908
Fisher 302

Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Interim Department Chair

PhD, Mathematics, Michigan Technological University

Biography

Dr. Keranen is a professor of mathematical sciences and serves as associate chair for undergraduate study. Keranen was born and raised in Calumet, MI and attended Michigan Technological University in 1997 as an undergraduate student; she’s been here ever since. In 2006, she accepted a position in the Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Professor. Her research interests include combinatorial designs and graph decompositions. Keranen also enjoys teaching students at all levels, and regularly teaches several courses in discrete mathematics.

Areas of Expertise

Combinatorial designs
Graph decompositions
Graph colorings

Recent Publications

J. Asplund and M.S. Keranen, Mutually Orthogonal Equitable Latin Rectangles, Discrete Math, 311 (2011), 1015-1033.
M.S. Keranen, M.R. Laffin, Fixed block configuration group divisible designs with block size six, Discrete Math, 312 (2012), 745-756.
M.S. Keranen, D.L. Kreher, S. Ozkan, Uniform two-class regular partial Steiner triple systems, Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 20 (2012), 161-178.
J. Asplund, M.S. Keranen, C. Rodger, Enclosings of lambda-Fold 5-Cycle Systems, Journal of Combinatorial Designs, To appear.
M.S. Keranen, S. Ozkan, The Hamilton-Waterloo problem with 4-cycles and a single factor of n-cycles, Graphs and Combinatorics, To appear.