Dr. Alexander Hoover is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Cleveland State University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a postdoctoral fellow at Tulane University in New Orleans. His research area is broadly in applied and computational mathematics, with a focus on mathematical biology, computational fluid dynamics, and biomechanics. Much of his work involves developing fluid-structure interaction models of organ and organismal systems, and using these in silico models to understand the fundamental physics driving these biomechanical systems. In addition to his research, Dr. Hoover is a board member of Spectra, the Association for LGBTQ+ Mathematicians. In 2021, he helped organize the first LGBTQ+ in Math Conference at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), and is part of the organizing committee for the Queer in Computational and Applied Mathematics (QCAM) workshop in person at ICERM in June 2024. He is passionate about increasing equity and representation in STEM.

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Dr. Mary Lynn Reed has frequently described herself as a ‘walking mathematics career panel.’ She’s held mathematically-oriented jobs in academia, government, actuarial consulting, non-profit research, and the software industry. In addition to her individual contributions, she’s also served in a variety of leadership positions, including Chief/Mathematics Research at the National Security Agency. She is currently a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT); and she serves on the Board of Trustees for the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a non-profit research corporation. In this talk, she will offer some reflections on her ‘diverse’ career and will briefly highlight some new research questions she is pursuing (with RIT students) in the area of cyber & crypto economics.

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Dr. Seth Sullivant received his PhD in 2005 from the University of California, Berkeley.  After a Junior Fellowship in Harvard's Society of Fellows, he joined the department of mathematics at North Carolina State University in 2008 as an assistant professor.  He was promoted to full professor in 2014 and distinguished professor in 2018.  Sullivant's work has been honored with a Packard Foundation Fellowship and an NSF CAREER award and he was selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.  He helped to found the SIAM activity group in Algebraic Geometry where he has served as both secretary and chair.  Sullivant's current research interests include algebraic statistics, mathematical phylogenetics, applied algebraic geometry, and combinatorics.  He has published 60 papers and 2 books in these areas.

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