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About
About
I am a math PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. My mathematical interests are combinatorics, algebra and representation theory. I intend to work on my thesis under the supervision of Sarah Brauner.
Additionally, I am a Moelis Access Science fellow and a co-organizer of the GeMs in Math group at Penn. My pronouns are she/her.
Contact me at this email address: avamock [at] sas [dot] upenn [dot] edu.
Undergrad
Undergrad
I got my B.A. in math in 2023 from Wellesley College, a (historically) women's liberal arts college in Massachusetts. My senior thesis advisor was Megan Kerr.
The summer before my senior year of college, I participated in the Summer@ICERM 2022 REU at ICERM in Providence, RI. This experience solidified my desire to be an academic researcher and go to graduate school.
Other
Other
I believe in Federico Ardila's axioms. Here they are:
Axiom 1. Mathematical potential is distributed equally among different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.
Axiom 2. Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.
Axiom 3. Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.
Axiom 4. Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
(I saw these axioms listed on Isabel Vogt's website and it inspired me to list them here too.)
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Below are other conferences/workshops that might interest undergraduate and early graduate students:
EDGE summer program: I participated in EDGE 2023 at Brown University the summer before starting grad school. It was a valuable educational experience and it gave me a supportive network of women in math.
Roots of Unity workshop: In Summer 2024, I participated in the Roots of Unity workshop at ICERM. I was in the commutative algebra group which was supervised/led by Ashley Wheeler and Haydee Lindo.
Preliminary Arizona Winter School: In Fall 2024, I participated in PAWS in the Symmetries of Root Systems lecture series.
I also attended the following conferences/workshops:
Women in Noncommutative Algebra and Representation Theory 4 (WINART4)
2026 North American Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic
Upcoming: CAAC 2027.
Baby sea turtle I found in August 2026 at the beach in my hometown.
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