Allison N. Miller

About me: 

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Swarthmore College. 

In Spring 2024 I'll be teaching Math 20: Mathematics and Social Justice and Math 104: Topology--I've also recently taught Math 20: Mathematics and Social Justice (Spring 2022), Math 27: Linear Algebra (Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023 x 2), Math 67: Introduction to Modern Algebra (Spring 2023 x 2), Math 69: Combinatorics (Fall 2022), and a 4-student directed reading in knot theory (Spring 2023). 

I do research in low-dimensional topology, exploring what knots and surfaces can tell us about the strange world of 4-dimensional topology. You can see me talk about my work here (5 minutes, for a general audience, as part of the College of Natural Science's 'Science in a Flash' event at Rice) or here (30 minutes, for an audience of topologists, as part of the Trends in Low-Dimensional Topology series).  You can find out more about my research here

I also maintain a list of resources on ethics in mathematics, first created as I developed a course in Spring 2021.  A description of that course, A Mini-seminar: Teaching Ethics in Mathematics in an Hour a Week, recently appeared in Journal of Humanistic Mathematics as part of their special issue on ethics in math. 

For those on the job market: you can find the research statement, teaching statement, and cover letter from my job search in 2020 here, tailored for a job search aiming at liberal arts colleges that value both research and teaching highly. 

My CV, up to date as of August 2023, is available here.

Biography: 

You can find my papers on the arXiv and find me in my office, Science Center 150.  My email is amille11@swarthmore.edu and my address is Swarthmore College/ Department of Mathematics and Statistics/ 500 College Avenue/ Swarthmore, PA 19081/ USA.

Disambiguation/ Disclaimer: I am not Allison Moore, also once a student of Cameron Gordon at UT Austin, also once a postdoc at Rice in HBH 456, but now an Assistant Professor at VCU. Nor am I Alison Miller, a mathematician and associate editor at Mathematical Reviews.  I can be distinguished from the many other Allison Millers in the world (who the reader can go out and discover for themselves) by my middle name- so far as I know I am the only Allison Northey Miller.