Associate Professor, Undergraduate Chair

Office: Katharine Reed Cudahy Hall, Room 332
Phone: (414) 288-7941
E-mail: kim.factor{at}
marquette{dot}edu

Classes typically taught:

• Discrete Mathematics
• Applied Discrete Mathematics 1 & 2

Research interests:

• Graph Theory
• Domination Graphs
• Ranks of 0, 1-matrices
• Applied Combinatorics

Selected publications:

• K. Factor. Selection of Early Warning Test Sites for Foot & Mouth Disease in Dairy Cattle, a Bio-Surveillance Model,  A CCICADA Module for Students in Classes 9 – 14.. CCICADA (Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis)(2011), 1-45.
• K. Factor and L. Langley, A Characterization of Connected (1,2)-Domination Graphs of Tournaments, AKCE Int. J. Graphs Comb., 8, No. 1 (2011),  51-62.

• K. Factor and S. Merz, The (1,2)-Step Competition Graph of a Tournament, Discrete Appl. Math. 159 (2011), 100 – 103.

• K. Factor and L. Langley, Digraphs with Isomorphic Underlying and Domination Graphs: UG^c(D)=, Australas. J. Combin. 48 (2010), 25 - 41.
• K. Factor, J. Darby and R. Kohler, Local Out-Tournaments with Upset Tournament Strong Components I:  Full and Equal {0,1}-Matrix Ranks, Ars Combin. 95 (2010), 3 – 17.

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Summer 2013 Research Experience

The Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science is hosting the NSF-funded Summer 2013 Research Experience (REU) for Undergraduates. This program provides U.S. undergraduates with an intensive, faculty-mentored, summer research experience in the areas of applied mathematics, high-performance computing, statistics, ubiquitous systems and mathematics education. Learn more