Email: catan042 "at" umn.edu

Pronouns: She/her

Hello! I am a third year math PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and my advisor is Vic Reiner. I am interested in algebraic combinatorics and its connections to commutative algebra and geometry. Before beginning the math PhD program at the UMN, I participated in the Mathematics Post-baccalaureate Program at Smith College. I completed my undergraduate work at the University of Rochester, where I majored in math and minored in Spanish.

Along with Sylvester Zhang and Sasha Pevzner, I co-organized MRWAC 2023, a research workshop in algebra and combinatorics that unites current and former UMN math graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.

During the 2022 - 2023 academic year, I co-organized the UMN Student Combinatorics & Algebra Seminar with Tara Gomes, Anastasia Nathanson, and Kaelyn Willingham.

I am also a co-organizer for the Mathematics Project at Minnesota (MPM), an annual workshop for UMN undergraduates who come from underrepresented groups in mathematics.