Patricia Hersh's Home Page

Patricia Hersh
Department of Mathematics
Indiana University
Rawles Hall
Bloomington, IN 47405

Email: phersh at indiana.edu
Office: Rawles 317

Welcome to my home page. After five years as a faculty member in the math department at Indiana University, Bloomington, I have just moved to North Carolina State University where I am now an associate professor. My new office phone at NCSU is 919-515-2385, new office is 3122 SAS Hall, new email is plhersh at ncsu dot edu, and here is a link to my new web page .

Before my time at Indiana University, I was a postdoc at MSRI (fall 2004), Michigan (2001-2004) and the University of Washington (1999-2001), went to grad school at MIT (1995-1999), undergrad at Harvard (1991-1995), and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. Richard Stanley was my advisor, and Phil Hanlon was my NSF postdoc sponsoring scientist; Persi Diaconis was my undergraduate advisor.

Research:

Here are my papers and CV.

Research interests: combinatorics, particularly as it relates to fields like topology, commutative algebra, representation theory and theoretical computer science. I'm especially interested in combinatorial methods for studying topological structure, often with algebraic applications in mind.

Teaching:

Math 311 -- Calculus III (spring 2008)
Math 303 -- Linear Algebra (spring 2008)

Web pages for classes taught in previous semesters

Seminars and conferences:

I organize a combinatorics seminar here at Indiana, with talks not quite every week, but not so far off from that either.

Cristian Lenart, Nathan Reading and I are organizing an AMS special session on Rings, algebras, and varieties in combinatorics, to be held at the southeastern AMS sectional meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina on April 4-5, 2009.

Some past special sessions I've co-organized:

Combinatorial representation theory, topological combinatorics and interactions between them held at the AMS sectional meeting at Indiana University in Bloomington on April 5-6, 2008 (organized with Cristian Lenart and Michelle Wachs).
Special session on algebraic combinatorics held at Joint American/Austrian/German Math. Society meeting in Mainz, Germany on June 16-19, 2005 (organized with Christian Krattenthaler and Volkmar Welker).
AMS Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics held at sectional meeting in Ann Arbor on March 1-3, 2002 (organized with Brian Taylor).

Links:

Here are some math links and some other links.

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