Shannon Overbay, Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics and Department Chair of Integrated Media

Dr. Shannon Overbay

Contact Information

  • Spring 2024
    JOUBRC 203
    Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
    HERAK 233
    Wednesdays, 1-2 p.m.
    MATH LEARNING CENTER (BISE 218)
    Mondays, 1-2 p.m.


  • (509) 313-3901
  • Visit my website

Education & Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., Mathematics, Colorado State University

M.S., Mathematics, Colorado State University

B.S., Mathematics | Minor in Computer Science, Gonzaga University

Courses Taught

MATH 157: Calculus-Analytic Geometry I

MATH 231: Discrete Structures

MATH 258: Calculus-Analytic Geometry II

MATH 259: Calculus-Analytic Geometry III

MATH 260: Discrete Structures

MATH 321: Statistics for Experimentalists

MATH 362: Algebraic Combinatorics

MATH 437: Abstract Algebra I

MATH 438: Abstract Algebra II

 

1.       Trusses, NP Completeness, and Genetic Algorithms, Shannon Overbay, Sara Ganzerli, Paul DePalma, Aaron Brown*, and Peter Stackle*, Proceedings of the 17th A&C Specialty Conference, St. Louis, MO, 2006, pp. 1-13. 

2.       Magic with Mayan Math, Shannon R. Overbay and Mary Jean Brod, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, Vol. 12, No. 6, February 2007, pp. 340-347. 

3.       Graphs with Small Book Thickness, Shannon Overbay, The Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring 2007, pp. 121-130. 

4.       Extension of a Theorem of Whitney, Paul C. Kainen and Shannon Overbay, Applied Math Letters, Vol. 20, No. 7, July 2007, pp. 835-837. 

5.       Optimizing Resources in Undergraduate Research, Sara Ganzerli, Shannon Overbay, Paul De Palma, Ann Kilzer*, Ryan Datteri*, and Sean Fitzgerald*, Proceedings of the 18th A&C Specialty Conference, Vancouver, B.C., 2008, pp. 1-12. 

6.       Purely Periodic Second Order Linear Recurrences,Thomas McKenzie and Shannon Overbay, The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 46/47, No. 2, May 2008/09, pp. 160-166.  

7.       Book Embeddings and Zero Divisors, Thomas McKenzie and Shannon Overbay, Ars Combinatoria, Vol. 95, 2010, pp. 55-63. 

8.       Sums of Second Order Linear Recurrences, Thomas McKenzie and Shannon Overbay, The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 4, November 2010, pp. 335-342. 

9.       Book Embedding and the Genetic Algorithm:  A Dual-Layered Approach, Shannon Overbay, Paul DePalma, Marshall Hurson*, Tiffany Arnold*, and Andrew Pierce*, Proceedings of the Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (MAICS) Conference, Vol. 841, April 2012, pp. 104-111.

10.     G-sets and Linear Recurrences Modulo Primes, Thomas McKenzie, Shannon Overbay, and Robert Ray, The Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2013, pp. 27-36. 

11.     Metathesis and the Genetic Algorithm: Language as a Complex Adaptive System, Paul DePalma, Sara Ganzerli, Shannon Overbay, George Luger, and Kim Glaspey*, Proceedings of the Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (MAICS) Conference, April 2013, pp. 31-36. 

12.     Embedding Graphs in Cylinder and Torus Books, Shannon Overbay, Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Vol. 91, 2014, pp. 299-313. 

13.     Jordan Forms and Nth Order Linear Recurrences, Thomas McKenzie, Shannon Overbay, and Robert Ray, The Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2014, pp. 122-133. 

14.     Book Thickness of Planar Zero Divisor Graphs, Thomas McKenzie and Shannon Overbay, The Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2015, pp. 2-9 

15.     Book Thickness of Toroidal Zero-Divisor Graphs, Thomas McKenzie and Shannon Overbay, Afrika Matematika, Vol. 28, No. 5-6, 2017, pp. 823-830. 

16.     Magic with Mayan Math (with lesson plan and activities), Shannon Overbay and Mary Jean Brod, Integrating Math across the K-6 Curriculum, NCTM e-book, 2018. 

17.     On Dispersability of Some Products of Cycles, Samuel Joslin, Paul Kainen, and Shannon Overbay, The Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 2021.