Margaret Readdy's homepage

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Margaret Readdy
Photo by S. Rhine
G reetings!

I am an
Associate 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.

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

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

Curriculum Vitae


Research

My research interests are in algebraic combinatorics 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 a co-organizer of the UK WILDCATS Seminar.


Upcoming Events

2008-2009

I will be running an interactive student session at the 2008 Math High School Day. (November 2008)

In February 2009 I will be giving a seminar talk in the University of Washington Combinatorics Seminar.

I am the faculty advisor for the 2009 Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference (GSCC 2009). The keynote speaker is Richard Stanley (MIT). The GSCC 2009 will be held at the University of Kentucky March 27-29, 2009.

2007-2008

Talk in the special session Geometric Combinatorics at the AMS Fall Central Section Meeting being held at DePaul University (Chicago, IL) October 5-6, 2007.

Carla Savage, along with Nicholas Loehr, Gabor Pataki, Ruriko Yoshida and myself, are organizing the special session Combinatorial Enumeration, Optimization, Geometry, and Statistics AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional meeting being held at Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro, TN) November 3-4, 2007. Carla Savage will be giving the invited address, The mathematics of lecture hall partitions.

Talk in the special session Combinatorial Representation Theory, Topological Combinatorics, and Interactions Between Them at the AMS Spring Central Section Meeting being held at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN) April 5-6, 2007.

Colloquium talk at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte April 18, 2008.

I am attending Festive Combinatorics, Symposium in honor of Anders Björner's 60th Birthday. Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. (May 28-30, 2008)

I will be giving a talk at the Billerafest, a conference in honor of Louis Billera's 65th Birthday at Cornell University June 13-15, 2008.


Recent Events

New My second son Thomas was born June 23, 2005 weighing 8 pounds 15 ounces and measuring 21 1/4 inches long. Thomas' mathematical connection is that he has the same birthday as Richard Stanley. New

Here is a recent picture of Thomas and Theodore.

See what my family looked like on Inauguration Day and what the Lexington Herald Leader wrote.

Keynote speaker at the Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference, University of Minnesota. (April 16-17, 2005)

Visited Mittag-Leffler as part of the Spring 2005 program in Algebraic Combinatorics.

My first son Theodore was born May 23, 2001 weighing 8 pounds and measuring 21 inches long. (Both Fibonacci numbers!) Photos


PhD Student

My graduate student Patricia Muldoon is interested in topological combinatorics.


Courses

This semester I am teaching Math 114 Calculus II and Math 614 Enumerative Combinatorics.

I am also the Course Czar for Calculus II the academic year 2008-09.


REUs

I have been a Faculty Advisor for two REU's at Cornell, one in 1997 and the other in the summer of 2000. Here you can see an article about the Summer 1997 REU.

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.


Links


UK logo 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