Kimberly P. Hadaway

Hello, I'm Kimberly P. Hadaway.

I am a Ph.D. student in the Mathematics Department at Iowa State University, where I am the President of our chapter for the Association for Women in Mathematics; we are collaborating to host the Joint AWM-MOCA Speaker Series. I am a graduate student advisor for the Coalition for Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, and this fall, I will be participating in Iowa State's Preparing Future Faculty program. My current research interests are combinatorics, graph theory, and math education.


This summer, I am participating in the Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics and a Mathematics Research Community hosted by the AMS (titled Algebraic Combinatorics). During other recent summers, I taught a section of Calculus II and served as a Graduate Mentor for the Iowa State University Math REU, where my group studied problems related to modifying Kemeny's constant.


I graduated from Williams College as a Mathematics and Chemistry double major. I wrote an Honors Thesis on unit interval parking functions and defective parking functions with Dr. Pamela E. Harris.

Written Work

Interval and -interval

Rational Parking Functions

On the Directional Derivative

of Kemeny's Constant

Orthogonal Realizations of
Random Sign Patterns and
Other Applications of the SIPP

Honk! Honk!, Part 1

 An Introduction to Parking Functions

Honk! Honk!, Part 2

 An Introduction to Parking Functions

On Tight 9-Cycle Decompositions of Complete 3-Uniform Hypergraphs