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![]() I am a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky. |
Here is my Princeton website.
I am a member of the Discrete Mathematics group in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky.
I am
funded by
the
Simons Foundation
for the grant,
"Investigations in Combinatorial Mathematics".
Besides
collaborator visits
and
PI travel to lead all-female research groups and
all-female workshops,
it has funded
travel for eight graduate students.
Six collaborators and nine graduate students
received funding via
my previous
Simons Foundation
grant, "Flag Enumeration in Algebra and Geometry".
My graduate student
Yue Cai
also received funding for a research visit to Princeton
in Fall 2014.
During the academic year 2014--2015 I was a Visiting Professor
and Research Scholar in the
Princeton University Mathematics
Department.
During the academic year 2010-2011, I was
a Member
in the
School of Mathematics
at the
Institute for Advanced Study
in Princeton.
During the academic year 2006-2007, I was on sabbatical leave at
MIT.
My research interests are in algebraic
combinatorics,
namely
the interaction of combinatorics
with algebra, topology, discrete geometry and number theory.
My current PhD students are
Will Gustafson
and
Ben Reese.
Both are on the job market this year!
List of all of my
students
(Postdoctoral, PhD, Masters and Undergraduate Research).
Fall 2022 Math 113 Calculus I
Interview
by Robert Jajcay of Comenius University
during EUROCOMB 2019 in Bratislava Slovakia.
On the cover of the
March 2018 Notices of the AMS
.
Christine Taylor and I were guest editors for this
special issue for Women's History Month.
U Kentucky public relations
interview about the IAS
Women and Mathematics program winning
the
AMS 2019 Award for Mathematics
Programs that Make a Difference.
Here is the
award announcement in the May 2019 Notices of the AMS.
Research
Students
Teaching
In the News
Upcoming Events
Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton New Jersey (June & July 2022)
Research visit to UNC Charlotte to work with Gábor Hetyei. (November 2021)
The Mathematics of Machine Learning at the 2022 WAM Program, Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University (May 2022)
Speaker for virtual AWM Lecture Series hosted by Mount St. Mary's University. Talk slides. (February 2021)
Speaker for virtual AWM Lecture Series hosted by Kutztown University Talk slides. (February 2021)
Representation Theory: Categories & Combinatorics at the 2021 WAM Program, Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University (virtual May 2021)
Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton New Jersey (June & July 2019)
Plenary speaker at the 2019 EUROCOMB, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA (August 2019)
Plenary speaker, Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics, NC State University Talk slides. (November 2019)
Visit to Princeton University Mathematics Department (January 2020)
Since 2017 I have been the Academic Program Manager (2017-2019) and a Member of the WAM Committee (2020-Present) for the Women and Mathematics Program sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University.
This year's WAM program is on Mathematics of Machine Learning. (May 2022).
Previous WAM programs:
Representation Theory:
Categories & Combinatorics.
(May 2021; virtual).
Mathematics of Machine Learning.
(Rescheduled; May 2022)
Topics in Geometric Analysis.
(May 2019)
Mathematics of Modern Cryptography.
(May 2018)
Richard Ehrenborg and I are holding the Julia Robinson Math Festival at the Central Public Library in Lexington (November 2019). We ran the first and second Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival at the University of Kentucky. (November 2017 & 2018).
Research team leader and mentor for the all-female BIRS Workshop Algebraic Combinatorixx 2. (May 2017)
I will be giving a series of three one-hour lectures to graduate students at the Lake Michigan Workshop on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, Purdue University. (March 2016)
Invited Lecturer (4 lectures) for the 2013 Women and Mathematics Program sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University. (May 2013) Poster (pdf) and Lecture Notes (pdf) .
I am a founding member and organizer of Math Movie of the Month.
I gave a half-day of presentations on "Math Magic" as part of the Littlebrook Elementary School Science Expo in Princeton NJ. (May 2015)
In October 2015 I will be giving interactive "Math Magic" presentations at Cassidy Elementary School in Lexington KY.
Since Fall 2014 I have been a Professor Assistant/Consultant for the Henry Clay High School Math Club.
I am the faculty mentor for first year graduate student Kalila Sawyer as part of the NSF Funded Graduate Scholars in Mathematics DUE-1356253.
From 2000 to 2014, and 2017 to Fall 2018 I organized the Discrete CATS Seminar and co-organized the WILDCATS Seminar.
In Spring 2015 I co-organized the Princeton University Combinatorics Seminar with Richard Ehrenborg.
Here is a recent picture of my sons Thomas and Theodore, ages 6 and 10. And ages 8 and 12. And ages 10 and 14. And ages 12 and 16. And ages 14 - ε and 18 + ε. And ages 17 + ε and 21 + ε.
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Mailing address:
University of Kentucky
phone +1 (859) 257-4680 |