Kyle Salois - Mathematician

Hello & welcome! I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College. I started working here in Fall of 2025, and have taught courses including Calculus I, Multivariable Calculus, and Differential Equations. If you're a student in one of my classes, check Moodle for course-specific information. 

I earned my Master's and Ph.D. from Colorado State University with the help of my advisor, Maria Gillespie. My research usually falls under the umbrella of combinatorics, and looks at symmetric function theory, graph theory, and connections to other areas of math, including representation theory and algebraic geometry. I completed my Bachelor of Arts in mathematics at Willamette University. 

My current research is looking at ways to draw new connections between the combinatorics of chromatic symmetric functions and the cohomology rings of Hessenberg varieties. I have also investigated equality between skew Schur-Q functions, the structure of posets constructed from Kohnert diagrams, and the intersections graphs of maximal convex polygons inside of other polygons. 

Outside of math, I love playing board games. Some of my current favorites are Blood on the Clocktower, Ark Nova, and Wingspan. I currently sing with the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus, after participating in collegiate a cappella groups for 8 years. I also love trying new recipes, spending time outdoors, and traveling!