Margaret Readdy's homepage

Photos by the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ

reetings! I am a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky.

Bio

I am a member of the Discrete Mathematics group in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky.

I have been awarded a five year Simons Foundation Collaboration grant beginning July 2011.

• Collaborators who have received funding via this grant: Gábor Hetyei, Marge Bayer, Bruce Sagan, Michelle Wachs.
• Graduate students who have received funding to attend conferences via this grant include: Yue Cai, Tao Huang, Fernando Camacho, Robert Davis, Sarah Nelson, Cliff Taylor and Florian Kohl.

During the academic year 2010-2011, I was a Member in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

For Spring 2011 I have been awarded a University of Kentucky Tenured Professor Benefit by the Dean of Arts & Sciences.

During the academic year 2006-2007, I was on sabbatical leave at MIT.

Richard Ehrenborg and I are the founders and organizers of the Math Movie of the Month.

Curriculum Vitae

Research

My research interests are in algebraic combinatorics, namely the interaction of combinatorics with algebra, topology and discrete geometry.

Recent preprints and papers

My Father

Arthur F. Readdy, Jr. (March 4, 1928 - March 2, 2008)

Seminars

I am the organizer of the Discrete CATS Seminar (where CATS = Combinatorics Algebra Topology and Statistics!) This was formerly the University of Kentucky Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar.

I am also the organizer of the UK WILDCATS Seminar .

Upcoming Events

2014-2015 and beyond

Invited one-hour speaker for the 28th Midwest Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and Computing (MCCCC), University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (October 2014)

Invited speaker for the Michelle Wachs Conference, University of Miami. Talk slides. (January 2015)

Talk in the Rutgers Experimental Math Seminar. (March 2015)

Talk in the Rutgers Discrete Math Seminar. (March 2015)

Invited speaker for the Discrete Math Day at WPI. (September 2015)

Plenary speaker for the 28th International FPSAC 2016, Vancouver Canada. (July 2016)

2013-2014

Talk in the Binghamton University Combinatorics Seminar (joint with Geometry/Topology seminar) and visiting Thomas Zaslavsky . (October 2013).

Invited speaker for Saganfest 2014, Bijective and Algebraic Combinatorics: In honor of Bruce Sagan's 60th birthday, University of Florida. Talk slides. (March 2014)

2012-2013

Invited lecturer for the MIT D.W. Weeks Lecture Series. (November 2012)

Talk at University of Minnesota. (January 2013)

Talk in the AMS special session Algebraic Combinatorics as part of the 2013 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting being held in Oxford, MS at the University of Mississippi. Patricia Hersh (NC State) and Dennis Stanton (U Minnesota) are organizing this session. (March 2013)

Colloquium talk at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and visiting Gabor Hetyei. (April 2013)

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) and photos.

Talk at the 11th Nordic Combinatorial Conference (NORCOM2013) in Stockholm, Sweden. (June 2013)

The paper, "Euler flag enumeration of Whitney stratified spaces" by Richard Ehrenborg, Mark Goresky and Margaret Readdy, was presented by Richard Ehrenborg at the FPSAC'13 in Paris, France. The famous slides can be found here. (June 2013)

2011-2012

Talk at Cornell University in the Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar and visiting Louis Billera. (November 2011)

Talk in the AMS special session "Combinatorial Geometry of Polytopes" as part of the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings being held in Boston, MA. Egon Schulte (Northeastern) and Asia Ivic Weiss (York University) are organizing this session. (January 2012)

Colloquium talk at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and visiting Gabor Hetyei. (April 2012)

2010-2011

Talk at the University of Pennsylvania Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry (CAGE) Seminar. (October 28, 2010)

Workshop on Quasisymmetric Functions at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS). Louis Billera, Sara Billey and Richard Stanley are organizing this workshop. (November 14-19, 2010)

Talk at the Rutgers Experimental Mathematics Seminar. (December 2, 2010)

Georgia Benkart, Monica Vazirani and Stephanie van Willigenburg are organizing Algebraic Combinatorixx, a collaborative research and mentoring workshop for female combinatorialists, at BIRS. I have been invited to participate as a senior faculty member. (May 2011)

Talk at the MathFest 2011 Invited Paper Session "Polyhedra are Everywhere". (August 2011)

2009-2010

Co-organizing the NSF-funded workshop Combinatorics 2010: Advances, Trends and Speculations , DMS-1024407 (March 26, 2010). The keynote speakers are Sara Billey (U Washington), Patricia Hersh (North Carolina State), Isabella Novik (U Washington) and Stephanie van Willigenburg (U British Columbia).

Richard Ehrenborg and I are organizing the special session Advances in Algebraic & Geometric Combinatorics at the AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting being being held at the University of Kentucky (March 27-28, 2010). Doron Zeilberger will be giving the 2010 Erdös Memorial Lecture.

2008-2009 and before

PhD Students

Patricia Muldoon Brown, PhD 2009, "Rees Products of Posets and Inequalities" (pdf).

REUs and Undergraduate Research

Here is a list of my REU students.

My student Michael Levin, a 2001 graduate from Harvard, won Honorable Mention for the 2001 Morgan Prize.

I am currently directing the Senior Thesis of Princeton University undergraduate Albert Zhou (Class of 2015).

Photos

Here is a recent picture of my sons Thomas and Theodore, ages 6 and 10. And ages 8 and 12.

Inauguration Day 2009

Other photos

Links

Mailing address: University of Kentucky Department of Mathematics Lexington, KY 40506-0027 USA phone +1 (859) 257-4680 FAX +1 (859) 257-4078 readdy (at) ms.uky.edu