Katie Waddle

I work at the interface of algebraic combinatorics and geometry. The main objects I study are frieze patterns. You can find out much more about frieze patterns here.

I am currently at the University of Michigan in the sixth year of a Ph.D. in mathematics.  I work with Sergey Fomin and co-organize our chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics.  I am planning to graduate in May of 2026.

I am a founding (and current!) moderator of a world-wide Discord server for graduate students in all flavors of combinatorics. My co-founders are Ashleigh Adams and Jodi McWhirter. Send any of us an email if you'd like to join!

From 2022-2025 I was a co-organizer of SUBgroups, which are online peer groups that support first-year math graduate students.  You can read an article we wrote about our work here.

I completed a masters' degree at San Francisco State University in algebraic geometry supervised by Emily Clader and Dusty Ross. I co-led the Mathematistas club.

I taught algebra and geometry for 7 years at San Francisco International High School (go huskies!).

I hold a masters' degree in education from the STEP program at Stanford University.