Carolyn Reinhart
Visiting Assistant Professor
Swarthmore College
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
creinha1@swarthmore.edu
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Education
Degree: Ph.D. in Mathematics, May 2021
Advisor: Leslie Hogben
Dissertation title: The distance matrix and its variants for graphs and digraphs
Combinatorics, Computation and Applications RTG Advanced Trainee: August 2019- August 2020
Prior Education: BS in Mathematics from University of Minnesota, 2016
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Spectral graph theory, especially distance matrices and the non-backtracking matrix
Combinatorial matrix theory, the Inverse Eigenvalue Problem
Graph search games, especially the game of Cops and Robbers on graphs and throttling
Research with students:
Research with students:
Summer 2025
Research with Carlos Garcia and Sho Glashausser on Distance Laplacian Cospectrality of Digraphs
Awards
Awards
ISU Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award- Honorable Mention: Spring 2021
ISU Research Excellence Award: Spring 2021
ISU Teaching Excellence Award: Spring 2018
3 Minute Thesis Competition
3 Minute Thesis Competition
Iowa State University People's Choice Award Winner 2019
Iowa State University People's Choice Award Winner 2019
The 3 Minutes Thesis (3MT) competition is an annual event held at over 200 universities worldwide where graduate students from across campus take on the crazy task of explaining the gist of their thesis in only 3 minutes with the help of only one static slide. The competition originates from the University of Queensland in 2008 but has been held at Iowa State University since 2017. Each year, around 80 graduate students compete. In 2019, I won my preliminary heat and went on the compete as one of 8 finalists. In the finals, I won the audience voted People's Choice award.
Research Communities:
Research Communities:
American Institute of Mathematics (AIM)
Research community (ARC) on the Inverse Eigenvalue Problem for graphs
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Mathematics research community (MRC) on Finding Needles in Haystacks: Approaches to Inverse Problems using Combinatorics and Linear Algebra
Professional Memberships:
Professional Memberships:
Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
Women in Graph Theory and Applications Research Network
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS)
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