Liza J. jacoby
Hello, there!
My name is Liza and I just graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Philosophy, with Highest Honors in Mathematics. At Williams, I was the president of the Williams student chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics and I also ran the Student Mathematics and Statistics Advisory Board. This past April I was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and in the fall I will be starting at UC Berkeley to pursue my doctorate in mathematics.
My main research interests are in topology and geometry; you can find one of my most recent submissions –– a combinatorial project in tiling theory –– here.
As for my recent projects, in the spring of 2021 I engaged in an independent study advised by Dr. John Wiltshire-Gordon experimenting with a new pedagogical approach to singular cohomology, and last summer, Dr. Colin Adams and I worked on classifying tilings of the n-tuple branched cover of the 2-sphere with two branch points. To do so, we began tackling the classification of circumscribable star polyhedra. This past May, I concluded my senior thesis in symbolic dynamics, advised by Dr. Cesar Silva.
Outside of my mathematical endeavors, you'll probably find me outside –– on a mountain or off in the forest. Here I am in Williamstown foraging for lion's mane mushrooms!
During the school year, though, you'd often find me at the track. I ran mid-distance for the Williams track & field team, specializing in the 600m and 800m. To the left is me running the first leg of the 4x800 relay at the 2022 Indoor DIII New England Championship.