I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student at Iowa State University. My advisor is Michael Young. My research interests lie in extremal combinatorics and graph theory.
I earned my B.A. in Mathematics in 2017 from Western Michigan University.
Combinatorics, Computation and Applications RTG Trainee: Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
My interests lie in the field of discrete math. In particular, I enjoy problems in extremal graph theory, including rainbow (or anti-Ramsey) and Turán-type problems. I am also interested in graph saturation, domination, combinatorics on words, and Markov chains.
J. Alameda, C. Bang, Z. Brennan, D. Herzog, J. Kritschgau, and E. Sprangel, "Cutoff in the Bernoulli-Laplace model with O(n) swaps." [arXiv]
Z. Berikkyzy, A. Schulte, E. Sprangel, S. Walker, N. Warnberg, and M. Young, "Anti-van der Waerden numbers on Graphs." [arXiv]
I was the graduate research assistant at the Summer Undergraduate Applied Mathematics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I worked with two faculty members and 6 undergraduate students on the topics of Exponential Domination on Graphs and the Flint-Hill Series. I developed a mini-course for the students on how to conduct research, focusing on reading, writing, coding (in SAGEmath), and presenting mathematics.
I am an organizer Joint Association of Women in Mathematics (AWM) and Mathematicians of Color Alliance (MOCA) Speaker Series (JAMSS). JAMSS hosts speakers from underrepresented groups in mathematics in order to connect women and minority students in the graduate program with a variety of successful underrepresented mathematicians in the field.