CURRICULUM VITAE

W. James Bradley

ADDRESS

Office of the Provost
Calvin College
3201 Burton St SE
Grand Rapids, MI, USA 49546
616-957-7104, FAX 616-957-6501
braj@calvin.edu

EDUCATION

B.S., Mathematics, MIT, 1964
Ph.D., Mathematics, Univ. of Rochester, 1974
M.S., Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1982

DISSERTATION

Optimal Strategies and Transition Surfaces in a Class of Differential Games, Advisor: Po Lung Yu, March, 1974

EXPERIENCE

Director of Assessment and Institutional Research, Calvin College , Aug., 2005 - Aug. 2007

Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Calvin College, 1986 - 2005

William C. Foster Fellow (visiting scholar)US State Dept., Jan. 1, 2000 - June 30, 2001

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science and Department Chair, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY, 1981 - 1986

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1971 - 1978;Associate Professor of Mathematics, 1978 - 1980; Computer Center Director, 1978- 1980, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY

Teaching Assistant, 1967 - 1970, University of Rochester

American Peace Corps, secondary school Mathematics and Science teacher in India, 1964 - 1966

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Association for Institutional Research (AIR)

Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)

Mathematical Association of America (MAA)

Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences (ACMS), currently editor of Journal of the ACMS

OTHER ASSOCIATIONS

Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning , currently director of mathematics education project

Church of the Servant CRC

Grand Rapids Audubon Club, currently President

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

World Affairs Council of West Michigan

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

Is There a Discrete Analogue of the Median Voter Theorem?

INFORMS, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May, 2004

Public Choice Society, Nashville, TN, March, 2003

An Inspection Game

INFORMS, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May, 2004

Military Operations Research Society, Quantico, VA, June, 2003

A Methodology for Selecting DOC/PSF Sites for Inspection

OPCW, The Hague, Feb. 20, 2002

Military Operations Research Society, Fort Leavenworth, KS, June, 2002

The Soviet Concept of the Correlation of Forces

Mathematics Dept., Wilfrid Laurier Univ., Waterloo, ON, Jan.. 2003

Mathematics Dept., Western Michigan Univ., Nov. 2001

Mathematics Dept., Hope College, Sept. 2001

Mathematics Dept., Calvin College, Oct. 2001

Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, May 2001

Military Operations Research Society, Air Force Academy, May 2000

The Quest for a Quantitative Social Science: A Problem for Christians? Calvin College, Sept. 2001

The Potential for a US vs. China Offense-Defense Arms Race

Statistics Dept., Western Michigan Univ., Sept. 2001

Military Operations Research Society, US

Naval Academy, May 2001

U.S. State Dept. Research and Analysis Forum, May, 2001

Selection of Sites for Chemical Weapon Inspection

INFORMS, Salt Lake City, May 2000

Military Operations Research Society, Air Force Academy, May 2000

Separable Discrete Preferences, INFORMS, Cincinnati, May, 1999

Non-Separable Preferences and Simultaneous Elections, American Political Science Association, September, 1998 (presented by coauthor D. Marc Kilgour)

Identifying Dependencies in Binary Preferences, Public Choice Society, New Orleans, March, 1998(presented by coauthor Jonathan Hodge)

Can Sequential Elections Solve the Non-Separability Problem?, Public Choice Society, New Orleans, March, 1998

What Price Stability?, INFORMS, October, 1995

The Mathematics of IQ Testing, Calvin College Mathematics Colloquium, September 1995

The Stable Marriage Problem, Calvin College Mathematics Colloquium, October, 1994

HONORS

Award of Excellence, Professional Resource category, Associated Church Press Convention, April, 2003 (for Banner article, Nov. 2002)

Best paper, Working Group 3, Military Operations Research Society, June 2002

Meritorious Honor Award, US State Dept., June, 2001

Best paper, Working Group 3, Military Operations Research Society, May 2001

PUBLICATIONS

An Augustinian Perspective on the Philosophy of Mathematics,Journal of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, 2007, acmsonline.org/journal.htm

Teaching Mathematics from a Christian Perspective, World Report, October, 2007, https://www.acsi.org/web2003/default.aspx?ID=2034

Review of Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith by Daniel J. Cohen,Journal of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, 2007, acmsonline.org/journal.htm

Separable Discrete Preferences, Mathematical Social Sciences (with Jonathan K. Hodge and D. Marc Kilgour), 49 (2005), p.335-353

Letter from the Editor, Journal of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, 2004, www.acmsonline.org/letterfromeditor.htm

Two Ways of Knowing, Journal of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, 2004, www.acmsonline.org/journal.htm

The Study of Mathematics, Chapter 13 of A Student's Guide to the Liberal Arts, ed. by Wilburn T. Stancil, Rockhurst University Press, Kansas City, MO, 2003

Choosing a Pastor, The Banner, Vol. 137, No. 16, Grand Rapids, MI, Nov. 2002

The Soviet Concept of the Correlation of Forces, Proceedings of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, 2001

Mathematics in a Postmodern Age: A Christian Perspective, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, May, 2001(coedited with Russell Howell)

The Use and Misuse of Data and Models: The Mathematization of the Social Sciences, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, June, 1998 (with Kurt Schaefer)

The Role of Mathematics in Culture, Proceedings of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, 1997

A Course in Social and Ethical Issues in Computing, Computer Science Education Journal, 6, 1-14, (1996)

The Internet and Free Speech, Perspectives, August/September, 1996

A Model for Evaluating Student Learning in Academically Based Service, in Connecting Cognition and Action: Evaluation of Student Performance in Service Learning Courses, published by Campus Compact, as part of their Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study, Providence, Rhode Island, July, 1995

Fundamentals of Computing I: Logic, Problem Solving, Programs, and Computers, C++ Edition, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1995 (with Allen Tucker, Robert Cupper, Andrew Bernat, and Greg Scragg)

Fundamentals of Computing I:C++ Laboratory Manual, McGraw-Hill, NY,1995 (with Allen Tucker, Robert Cupper, Andrew Bernat, and Greg Scragg))

Fundamentals of Computing II: Abstraction, Data Structures, and Large Software Systems, C++ Edition, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1995 (with Allen Tucker, Robert Cupper, and Richard Epstein)

Fundamentals of Computing II: C++ Laboratory Manual, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1995 (with Allen Tucker, Robert Cupper, and Richard Epstein)

Fundamentals of Computing I: Logic, Problem Solving, Programs, and Computers, Pascal revised edition, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1994 (with Allen Tucker, Robert Cupper, Andrew Bernat, and Greg Scragg)

Fundamentals of Computing I: Pascal Laboratory Manual, Pascal Edition Revised, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1994 (with Allen Tucker, Robert Cupper, Andrew Bernat, and Greg Scragg))

Fundamentals of Computing II: Abstraction, Data Structures, and Large Software Systems, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1993 (with Allen Tucker, Robert Cupper, and Richard Epstein)

The Role of Mathematics in the Computer Science Curriculum, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.20, no.1, February, 1988, p.100

Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1988

Some Basic Properties of the Payoffs Defined by Closed Loop Strategies, International Journal of Systems Science, Jan. 76, v7, no.3, p.137 (with P.L. Yu)

A Concept of Optimal Strategies in Differential Games, International Journal of Systems Science, Jan. 76, v7, no.3, p.157 (with P.L. Yu)

Conditions for Optimality and Transition Surfaces Using the Reprisal Concept, International Journal of Systems Science, Feb. 76, v7, no.3, p.299 (with P.L. Yu)

Semipermeable Directions in Linear Differential Games, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, v.48, no. 3, Dec. 74, p.866 (with P.L. Yu)

Optimality and Transition Surfaces Using the Reprisal Concept, in The Theory and Application of Differential Games, p. 229-242, ed. J.D. Grote, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht-Holland,1974 (with P.L. Yu)