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Fall 2020 Courses

• MATH 150 Mathematical of Voting and Elections
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Spring 2021 Courses

• MATH 140 Mathematical Modeling

(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 8/3/20

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, and my daughter Adira is now taller than me!

• 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 students get more sleep and better grades

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