Current Position: KSU Chapter President
Past Position: Treasurer, Member
Sonia Kovalevsky Day is a day of activities, talks and other programming designed to encourage young women, elementary through high school, to continue their study of math. I have helped organize 3 SK-Days at KSU, running the following activities:
In honor of Mary Winston Newsom's legacy, the AWM Chapter at K-State started the Mary Winston Newson Lecture Series which seeks to promote gender minorities in mathematics by bringing in an accomplished graduate student from a minority gender in mathematics every semester to present the research. We have hosted the following speakers:
Cassandra Monroe: "Deformations of Geometric Structures" (Fall 2024)
Tejasi Bhatnagar: "A Monodromy Theorem for Abelian Surfaces with Bad Reduction in Characteristic p" (Spring 2024)
Sofia Martinez Albrega: "Homotopy Theory, Model Structures, and Transfer Systems" (Sprint 2025)
Current Position: Conference Founder and Organizer
The Kansas Mathematics Graduate Student Conference is a semi-annual event hosted alternately by the University of Kansas and Kansas State University in the fall and spring, respectively. KMGSC provides a unique student-only environment where math graduate students can give research and/or expository presentations to an audience of peers. If you are interested in presenting at future conferences or would like information on how we organize and fund, the conference please contact myself or any of the other organizers!
Past Position: Organizer
Past Mentees:
Caitlin Solis: Topics in Topology and Geometry
McKenna Johnson: Introduction to Knot Theory
Claira Deyoung: Properties of the Quaternions
Xela Pattabiraman: A Survey of Representation Theory
Directed reading programs are an amazing way to build community between graduate students and undergraduates. It simultaneously provides graduate students with a chance to practice mentorship while also giving undergraduates, many of whom are not math majors, a chance to critically engage with mathematics, learn new skills, and motivate continued interest in mathematics.
KSU Open House: Here is a fun Buffon's Needle activity that is (relatively) easy to setup. All you need is cardboard and a bunch of toothpicks. On a piece of cardboard make lines which are two toothpick lengths apart and then start dropping the toothpicks! Here is an html program I made to keep track of a running count along with an informational flyers made by Dr. Adriana Ortiz-Aquino, both of which you welcome to use!
App: Toothpick Counter
Flyer: Information Flyer