Welcome to my math page!
Starting in Spring 2024, I will be a postdoctoral researcher and NSF postdoc at Duke University.
I completed my PhD at the University of South Carolina in 2020 under Jesse Kass. I'm broadly interested in using homotopy theory to answer enumerative questions in algebraic geometry.
I left academia in 2020 to work in industry, and returned to academia in 2024. I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in learning about this experience!
Current location: New York, NY
Email: candace.bethea@duke.edu
CV, last updated April 2024
Tikal National Park, Guatemala
Research
N. Arcila-Maya, C. Bethea, M. Opie, K. Wickelgren, I. Zakharevich, Compactly supported A^1-Euler characteristic and the Hochschild complex, Topology and its Applications, 316 (2022). Arxiv link.
C. Bethea, An equivariant count of nodal orbits in an invariant pencil of conics. UofSC dissertation repository link (2020). Arxiv link (2023).
C. Bethea, J. Kass, K. Wickelgren, An example of wild ramification in an enriched Riemann-Hurwitz formula, Contemp. Math., 745, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2020, p. 69-82. Arxiv link.
C. Bethea, W. Dymacek, Realizability of Graphs with Prescribed connectivity and degree, Congressus Numerantium 276 (2016), 31-48.
Teaching
I'm an avid proponent of active learning, coaching and mentoring, and creating an inclusive classroom environment. I was a peer mentor in UofSC's Peer Mentor Program. I've also trained and been accountable for multiple direct reports in industry. Please contact me if you'd like a copy of my teaching statement.
Courses I've taught:
Calc I and II
Finite Math
College Algebra
Business Calculus
Some course evaluations:
S'17, Summer '17, F'17, S'18 (section 1, section 2)
Department activities
During graduate school I started the UofSC Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) student chapter alongside Dr. Paula Vasquez.
In Spring 2017 I organized a reading seminar on model categories using Mark Hovey's book. You can find all of our notes here.
Community Work
I'm currently on the board of trustees of Brooklyn Lab Charter School, where I help the leadership team think through executive-level aspects of organizational management like strategic and financial planning, fundraising, and board development.
I spent a year in industry at Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM), where I worked on program operations strategy projects like streamlining the student admissions process and standardizing the instructor hiring process.
While I was at BEAM, I led BEAM's involvement in the STEM PUSH network, a consortium of pre-college STEM programs focused on broadening diverse participation in STEM fields through evidence-based enrichment practices.
I have a long track record of humanitarian volunteer work. Over the past few years I've worked with RefugeeEd, International Foundation for World Freedom, and Stitchting Bootvluchteling.