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Fall 2018 Courses

• MATH 150 Mathematical of Voting and Elections
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• STAT 360 Probability
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Spring 2018 Courses

• MATH 365 Stochastic Processes
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(Science Center under construction in Fall 2017)

Education

• B.S., Stanford University, 1993
• M.S., Texas A&M University, 1995
• Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1998

Vita--updated 7/2/18

Professional Memberships

• AMS (American Math Society)
• AWM (Association of Women in Math)
• MAA (Math Association of America)
• SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Math)
• SRBR (Society for Research on Biological Rhythms)

(Convocation on Labor Day 2018 receiving honorary degree.)

Biomathematics

Circadian Rhythms

Planimeters

Capillary Surfaces

Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators

My husband Andrew Cohen is a professor of psychology at UMass-Amherst.

The picture on the left is my daughter Adira at the North Carolina Zoo. The picture on the right shows Andrew and Adira in summer 2017 on Inchcolm Island in the Firth of Forth.

• The Onion: hilarious parody of the news. A must-read.
• Manjul Bhargava: An Artist of Music and Math.
• Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, built over a century after his death.
• Mathematics of Planet Earth
• Devlin's angle: columns addressing learning and teaching mathematics, as well as why we do mathematics

• Math Alliance: building new communities in mathematics by supporting minority and first generation college students
• Pathways to Science: searchable database of summer and postbac programs for math and science

• Why Do Math
• Careers in applied math
• Math Matters, Apply It!

• Get enough sleep!
• Let teenagers get enough sleep! By starting high school at 8:30am or later...

• Voting & Elections presentation from May 2017 Amherst College Reunion
• Mathematical research on gerrymandering: the geometry of redistricting and compactness measures