2011 AGEP PRiME Speaker Series
Midwest Crossroads AGEP PRiME Speaker Series:
The Journey from Undergraduate to The Professoriate
Friday, July 1, 2011From Indiana to Indiana: A Closed Mathematical Loop Dr. Talitha Washington is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Evansville, a regional undergraduate institution in Indiana. She graduated from the University of Connecticut in June 2001. Her research interests concern applications of differential equations to biology and materials engineering Interview with Dr. Talitha M. Washington on Mathematics -- for AGEP PRiME, Purdue University |
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Friday, July 15, 2011Division: In an Algebra, In a Career, and In Research Mathematics Dr. Ulrica Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Morehouse College. She graduated from Emory University in mathematics in June 2004. Her research interests concern non-commutative ring theory. |
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Friday, July 22, 2011Why I Became a Mathematician: A Tale of Art, Heavy Metal, Eigenvalues and Bad Ass Muscle Cars Dr. Josef Sifuentes is a research scientist at the Courant Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. He graduated from Rice University in applied mathematics in April 2010. His research interests concern numerical analysis and computational wave scattering. |
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Friday, July 29, 2011Reaching Your Limit: Advice on Being Within an ϵ-Neighborhood of Your Goals (for any ϵ) Dr. Emille Davie Lawrence is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at California State University in Pomona. She graduated from the University of Georgia in August 2007. Her research interests concern the intersection of topology and algebra in general, and braid groups and right-angled Artin groups in particular. |
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Friday, August 5, 2011My Adventures with Elliptic Curves Dr. Alejandra Alvarado joined Purdue in 2012 as a Golomb Assistant Professor of Mathematics. She graduated from Arizona State University in May 2009. Her research interests concern arithmetic progressions in the coordinates of rational points elliptic curves, elliptic curve cryptography, and K-12 mathematics education. |
With funding from the Midwest Crossroads for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), Purdue University hosted the 2011 "AGEP PRiME: Purdue Research in Mathematics Experience," a summer program which seeks to build a community of underrepresented minorities in the mathematical sciences, focusing on undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics, statistics, and mathematics education.