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Expertise
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Work
Work
With Pamela E. Harris, Bethany Kubik, and Aba Mbirika, "Lattice Point Visibility on Generalized Lines of Sight," The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 125, No. 7 (2018), pgs. 593-601.
"Three Questions: The Journey of One Black Mathematician," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 65, No. 2 (2018), pgs. 144-147.
With Asamoah Nkwanta, "Riordan Matrix Representations of Euler's Constant $\gamma$ and Euler's Number $e$," International Journal of Combinatorics, Vol. 2016 (2016), Article ID 8324150, 9 pgs.
With Talitha Washington, "On the Generalized Climbing Stairs Problem," Ars Combinatoria, Vol. CXVII (October 2014), pgs. 183-190.
With Alejandra Alvarado, "Arithmetic Progressions on Conic Sections," International Journal of Number Theory. Vol. 9, No. 6 (2013), pgs. 1379-1393.
With Jing Ma, Susan Margulies, and Illya V. Hicks, "Branch Decomposition Heuristics for Linear Matroids," Journal of Discrete Optimization. Vol. 10, Issue 2 (May 2013), pgs. 102 - 119.
With Talitha Washington, "The Area of the Surface Generated by Revolving a Graph About Any Line," PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 2 (2013), pgs. 121-132.
With Kevin Mugo, "Points on Hyperbolas at Rational Distance," International Journal of Number Theory, Vol. 8, No. 4 (2012), pgs. 911-922.
"Semi-Magic Squares and Elliptic Curves," Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 22 (2010), no. 2, pgs. 102 - 107.
With Talitha Washington, “Sphere-of-Influence Graphs,” Wolfram Demonstrations Project. (February 4, 2010)
With Talitha Washington, "A Tasty Combination: Multivariable Calculus and Differential Forms," The Pentagon: The Journal of Kappa Mu Epsilon, Fall 2009, pgs. 11-28.
"Palindromes in Different Bases: A Conjecture of J. Ernest Wilkins," INTEGERS: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory, Vol. 9 (2009), pgs. 725-734.
Florian Luca and Alain Togbe, "On the Diophantine Equation $x^2 + 2^{\alpha}5^{\beta}13^{\gamma} = y^n$,” Algorithmic Number Theory Seminar (ANTS-VIII); LCNS 5011 (2008), pgs. 430-442.
With Alain Togbe, "On Pythagorean Quadruplets," International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 35 (2007), no. 3, pgs. 363 - 372.
With Davin Maddox, "Heron Triangles via Elliptic Curves," Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 36; (2005), no. 5, pgs. 1511 - 1526.
"Icosahedral $\mathbb Q$-curve Extensions," Math Research Letters 10 (2003), no. 2-3, pgs. 205-217.
"A Ternary Algebra with Applications to Binary Quadratic Forms," Council for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. IV; Contemp. Math. 284 (2001), pgs. 7-12.
"Artin's Conjecture and Elliptic Curves," Council for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. III; Contemp. Math. 275 (2001), pgs. 39 - 51.
With Mel Currie, "The Fractional Parts of $\dfrac nk$," Council for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. III; Contemp. Math. 275 (2001), pgs. 13 - 31.
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Education
Education
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
L.H.D. (Honorary Degree), 2019Stanford University
Ph.D., Mathematics (1999)California Institute of Technology
B.S., Mathematics and Physics (1994) -
Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
PI on National Science Foundation grant (DMS-1850909) for $97262 to support “PRiME: Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience” (2018 - 2021)
PI on National Science Foundation grant (DMS-1560394) for $230982 to support “PRiME: Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience” (2016 -- 2018)
co-PI on Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant (G-2020-12602) for $49993 to support “ADJOINT: African Diaspora Joint Mathematics Workshop” (2020 -- 2023)
Pomona College Marian and Charles Holmes Endowment Performing Arts Fund for $5000 to support ”The 47 Lecture” (2022 - 2023)
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (LHD) from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 2019
Fellow of the Association of Women in Mathematics (AWM), 2019
Purdue University’s ”Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award”, 2011
Black Issues in Higher Education’s “Emerging Scholar of the Year”, 2004