Hello! I am a first-year math Ph.D. student at Rutgers University. Before that, I was an undergrad at the University of
South Carolina, where my advisor was Professor Joshua Cooper.
Last summer, I participated in the Women and Mathematics summer school at the
Institute for Advanced Study and the Discrete and Convex Geometry summer school at the Erdős Center in Budapest.
In summer of 2022, I did research in discrete geometry in the SUMRY NSF-REU at Yale University.
During the preceding spring semester, I studied in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program. While there, I did research in rigidity theory with a phenomenal team of other undergrads (Henry Simmons, Zeyu Zheng)
under Professor Tibor Jordán. Inquiries relateds to any of these pursuits are welcome!
Here is my Portfolio for Graduation with Leadership Distinction in Research at UofSC.
Here is my CV.
Here is a visual summary of my CV:
Research
- Yale SUMRY NSF-REU: Variants of Heilbronn's Triangle Problem
- Budapest Semesters in Mathematics: Rigidity Properties of 4-Regular Graphs (submitted to Discrete Mathematics)
- Auburn NSF-REU in Discrete Math: (1) A Generalization of Szlam's Lemma (published in Geombinatorics), (2) On the Epsilon Chromatic Number of the Plane, (3) On the Hoffman metric for Graphs
- University of South Carolina: Finite, Separable, Edge-Maximal Unit Distance Graphs
Coursework
- my favorite math course I've taken as of Summer 2022 is Discrete and Convex Geometry in Budapest under Professor Gergely Ambrus. This course covered Helly's Theorem, Radon's Theorem, Carathéodory's Theorem, along with a sizable section on incidence problems, including a proof of the Szemerédi-Trotter theorem by my UofSC professor, Prof. Lázslo Székely. I also first met the Geometric Erdős-Szekeres theorem and its lovely proof in this course. You can see the theorem and its proof (extracted from Prof. Ambrus' course notes) here.
- in Fall 2021, Professor Michael Filaseta (UofSC) graciously came out of his recent retirement to teach me the majority of the content of his graduate course notes in Number Theory
- my other math courses are as follows, with my professors and grades parenthesized:Thesis Preparation (Joshua Cooper, in progress), Formalization and Mathematics (Matthew R. Ballard, in progress), Graduate Discrete Mathematics II (Lászlo Székely, in progress), Graduate Discrete Mathematics I (Lászlo Székely, A), Graduate Abstract Algebra (Alexander Duncan, A), Discrete Optimization (Joshua Cooper, A) Research (Tibor Jordán, ELTE, A), Mathematical Problem Solving (Sándor Dobos, A), Measure Theory (Péter Maga, Rényi Institute, B+), Mathematical Foundations of Network Science (Lincoln Lu, A), Analysis (Ralph Howard, A), Abstract Algebra II (Matt Miller, A), Abstract Algebra I (Matt Miller, A), Discrete Mathematics (Lázsló Székely, A), Vector Analysis (Frank Thorne, A), Linear Algebra (Anton Schep, B+), Transition to Advanced Mathematics (Matt Miller, A).
Recent and Upcoming Conference Participation
- FAU Southeastern International Conference in Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing (March 2023)<\li>
- JMM PME Student Paper Session (January 2023)
- U of Illinois-Chicago Undegraduate Math Symposium (November 2022)
- Duke Graduate Research Opportunities for Women (GROW) in Math Conference (October 2022)
- Ohio State University Young Mathematicians Conference (August 2022)
Outreach and Engagement
- I am a mentor for the Rutgers Undergraduate Directed Reading Program.
- I am a mentor for the Prison Mathematics Project.
- I was co-chair of the weekly Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Seminar at the Yale SUMRY REU
- I tutored mathematics (from business calculus to abstract algebra), chemistry (up to organic chemistry), and French (up to the 300 level) at UofSC's Student Success Center
- I graded for the Honors section of Discrete Math I in Fall 2021 and am currently grading for Honors Discrete Math II.
- I gave a talk in the inaugural UofSC Scholar Seminar entitled "Collaborative Problem Solving Through Open Questions in Mathematics" to provide an opportunity for non-math majors to experiment with research mathematics.
Skills
- Languages: English (native), French (proficient), Hungarian (basic)
- Math tools: LaTeX, Beamer, SageMath
Extramathematical Hobbies
- I love the NYT Crossword Mini and Letterboxed.
- I'm currently reading Stephen Hawking's Brief Answers to the Big Questions and Barabási's Linked. New places feel like home once I find a good used bookstore.
- I'm perfecting my Aeropress iced espresso. My time in Europe may have turned me into a coffee snob...