Professor Saad El-Zanati
Distinguished Professor
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STV Stevenson Hall 127
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- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Distinguished Professor
Illinois State University
2013
Grants and Contracts
Supplemental funding to: REU Site-Mathematics Research Experience for Pre-service and for In-service Teachers
Saad I El Zanati, David Barker.
National Science Foundation. May 29 2013 - May 29 2014
REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Secondary Mathematics Education
Saad I El Zanati, David Barker.
National Science Foundation. May 15 2011 - May 14 2014
ISU CS/IS Scholarship Program (Award #0966226)
Pruthikrai Mahatanankoon, William Hunter, Saad I El Zanati.
National Science Foundation. March 2010 - February 2016
Illinois State University Computer Science/Information Systems (CS/IS) Scholarship Program
Saad I El Zanati, P Mahatanankoon, W Hunter.
National Science Foundation. March 01 2010 - February 28 2015
Graduating Highly Effective Secondary Mathematics Teachers with Emphasis on Recruitment from Under-Represented Groups
McKenzie Alexander Clements, Saad I El Zanati, David Barker, Tami Martin, Michael Plantholt.
National Science Foundation. 2009
Graduating Highly-Qualied Secondary Mathematics Teachers with Emphasis on Recruitment from Underrepresented Groups
Saad I El Zanati, David Barker, McKenzie Alexander Clements, Tami Martin, Michael Plantholt.
National Science Foundation. May 1 2009 - April 30 2013
Conference Proceeding
Managing an NSF-Funded Information Technology Scholarship Program
Pruthikrai Mahatanankoon, William Hunter, Saad I El Zanati.
EDSIG Conference on Information Systems and Computing Education, (2017)
Journal Article
Managing an NSF-Funded Information Technology Scholarship Program
P. Mahatanankoon, William Hunter, Saad I El Zanati.
Information Systems Education Journal, 16 (3), 35-44, (2018)
On cyclic decompositions of $K_n+1,n+1-I$ into a 2-regular graph with at most 2 components
Ryan Bunge, Saad I El Zanati, D. Gibson, U. Jongthawonwuth, J. Nagel, B. Stanley, A. Zale.
Congr. Numer., 218, 73–84, (2013)
On cyclic decompositions of complete graphs into tripartite graphs
Ryan Bunge, Avapa Chantasartrassmee, Saad I El Zanati, Charles Vanden Eynden.
J. Graph Theory, 72 (1), 90–111, (2013), 10.1002/jgt.21632
On labeling 2-regular graphs where the number of odd components is at most 2
Ryan Bunge, Saad I El Zanati, M. Hirsch, D. Klope, J. A. Mudrock, K. Sebesta, B. Shafer.
Util. Math., 91, 261–285, (2013)
On standard Stanton 4-cycle designs
Ryan Bunge, Saad I El Zanati, A. Hakes, J. Jeffries, E. Mastalio, J. Torf.
Congr. Numer., 215, 7–16, (2013)
On the cyclic decomposition of circulant graphs into bipartite graphs
Ryan Bunge, Saad I El Zanati, Chepina Rumsey, Charles Vanden Eynden.
Australas. J. Combin., 56, 201–217, (2013)
On $γ$-labeling the almost-bipartite graph $P_m+e$
Ryan Bunge, Saad I El Zanati, Wendy O'Hanlon, Charles Vanden Eynden.
Ars Combin., 107, 65–80, (2012)
On cyclic $G$-designs where $G$ is the one-point union of two cycles
K. Brewington, Ryan Bunge, L. J. Cross, Saad I El Zanati, C. K. Pawlak, J. L. Smith, S. M. Zeppetello.
J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comput., 83, 261–289, (2012)
On y-labeling the almost-bipartite graph Pm + e.
Ryan Bunge, Saad I El Zanati, Wendy O'Hanlon.
Ars Combinatoria, 107, 65-80, (2012)
On the partitions of the 8-dimensional vector space over GF(2)
Saad I El Zanati, Olof Heden, George F Seelinger, Papa Amar Sissokho, Lawrence Spence, Charles Vanden Eynden.
Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 18 (6), 462-474, (2010)
The maximum size of a partial 3-spread in a finite vector space over GF(2)
Saad I El Zanati, Heather Jordon, George F Seelinger, Papa Amar Sissokho, Spence Lawrence.
Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 54 (2), 101-107, (2010)
On p-labeling up to ten vertex-disjoint C4x+1
Heather Jordon, E Butzen, Saad I El Zanati, A Modica, R Schrishuhn.
J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comp., 70, 161–176, (2009)
Teacher scholars in secondary mathematics education
David Barker, W O’Hanlon, Cynthia Langrall, Saad I El Zanati.
Team-Math Conference Proceedings, (2009)
Manuscript
All 2-regular graphs with uniform odd components admit -labelings of cubic bipartite graphs
Saad I El Zanati, D I Gannon.
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 53, 207-219, (2012)
On G-designs, where G is the one-point union of two cycles
Saad I El Zanati, R C Bunge, K Brewington, L J Cross, C K Pawlak, J L Smith, S M Zeppetello.
Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 82, 33-58, (2012)
On free a-labelings of cubic bipartite graphs
W Wannasit, Saad I El Zanati.
Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 82, 269-293, (2012)
On cyclic G-designs, where G is cubic and tripartite
Saad I El Zanati, W Wannasit.
Discrete Mathematics, 312, 293-305, (2011)
On cyclic decompositions of circulant graphs into almost bipartite graphs
Saad I El Zanati, K King, J A Mudrock.
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 49, 6-76, (2011)
On graceful cubic graphs
Saad I El Zanati, W Wannasit.
Congressus Numerantium, 208, 167-182, (2011)
On p-labeling 2-regular graphs consisting of 5-cycles
Saad I El Zanati, D I Gannon.
International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, 6, 13-20, (2011)
On v-fold Partitions of Finite Vector Spaces and Duality
Saad I El Zanati, George F Seelinger, Papa Amar Sissokho, L E Spence, C Vanden Eynden.
Discrete Mathematics, 311, 307-318, (2011)
Gregarious GDDs with two associate classes
Saad I El Zanati, N Punnim, C A Rodger.
Graphs and Combinatorics, 26, 775-780, (2010)
The nonexistence of a (K6 - e)-decomposition of the complete graph K29
Saad I El Zanati, D Bryant, S Hartke, P R. J Osterg^ard.
Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 18, 94-104, (2010)
Presentations
On decomposing the complete graph into the union of two cycles
Saad I El Zanati.
27th Midwestern Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography, and Computing, Georgetown, TX, October 20, 2013
On decomposing regular graphs and multigraphs into isomorphic trees
Saad I El Zanati.
44th Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Boca Raton, FL, March, 2013
Research Experiences for Teachers: Developing Mathematical Habits of Mind for Teaching
David Barker, Saad I El Zanati.
2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 11, 2013
On the spectrum problem for cubic graphs of order 8
Saad I El Zanati.
2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 10, 2013
On Two Problems in Combinatorial Design Theory
Saad I El Zanati.
Thai-Japan Conference on Computational Geometry and Graphs, Bangkok, Thailand, December, 2012
On decomposing regular graphs and multigraphs into isomorphic trees
Saad I El Zanati.
The 36th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Sydney, Australia, December, 2012
Undergraduate Research with Math Education Majors
Saad I El Zanati.
Teaching Seminar-School of Mathematics, Australia, November, 2012
Trends in Undergraduate Research in Mathematical Sciences
Saad I El Zanati.
TURMS 2012- Undergraduate Research with Math Education Majors, Chicago, IL, October, 2012
On some problems in graph designs and graph labelings
Saad I El Zanati.
MathFest 2012-Open and Accessible Problems in Combinatorics and Graph Theory Session, Madison, WI, August, 2012
Implementing mathematics research experiences into teacher preparation programs
David Barker, Saad I El Zanati.
Illinois Section of the MAA Special Meeting, Normal, IL, March, 2012
Implementing mathematics research experiences into teacher preparation programs
David Barker, Saad I El Zanati, W O’Hanlon.
American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, Boston, MA, January, 2012
On cyclic graph designs via Rosa-type labelings
Saad I El Zanati.
Graph Theory and its Applications, Thailand, December, 2011
On d-modular p-labelings of Graphs
Saad I El Zanati.
25th Midwestern Conference of Combinatorics, cryptography, and Computing, Las Vegas, NV, October, 2011
On some recent progress on Rosa-type labelings
Saad I El Zanati.
Second Istanbul Design Theory, Graph Theory, and Combinatorics Conference, Online, June, 2011
On v-fold Rosa-type labelings and cyclic graph decompositions
Saad I El Zanati.
42nd Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing,, Boca Raton, FL, March, 2011
Teaching Mathematics to Future Teachers: The Value of Co-Teaching Courses with Mathematics Educators
Saad I El Zanati, C Beneteau.
AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Education Reform, New Orleans, LA, January, 2011
Teacher Scholars: Research experiences for pre-service and in-service teachers
David Barker, Saad I El Zanati.
American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, San Francisco, CA., January, 2010
Teacher Scholars: Research experiences for pre-service and in-service teachers
David Barker, Saad I El Zanati.
Math Fest annual meeting, Portland, OR, August, 2009
Elementary students and the process of generalization
J Witkowski, David Barker, Saad I El Zanati.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Presession, Washington, DC, April, 2009
The role of representation in elementary level generalization activities
C Witkowski, David Barker, Cynthia Langrall, Jeffrey Barrett, Saad I El Zanati.
The Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Washington D.C, April, 2009
REU Site: Mathematics research experience for pre-service and in-service teachers
Saad I El Zanati, David Barker, Cynthia Langrall, S McCrone, W O’Hanlon.
American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, January, 2009
Teacher-Scholars: Research experiences for pre-service and in-service secondary mathematics teachers
Saad I El Zanati, David Barker.
American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, January, 2009
The role of representation in elementary level generalization activities
C Witkowski, D Barker, C Langrall, Jeffrey Barrett, Saad I El Zanati.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Online, July, 2008