2022 Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics

Kaitlin Tademy (she/her) is a fifth year Ph.D. student studying virtual knot theory with Mark Brittenham. She earned her B.S. in Mathematics at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas in 2018. While her studies are in topology, she is passionate about math education, specifically... Read More →

Rebecca Durst is a 5th year graduate student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University under Professor Johnny Guzmán. She is originally from the Washington, D.C. area and completed her BA at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts... Read More →

Neeraja Kulkarni is excited to return to NCUWM after attending the conference as an undergrad in 2018! She is a fourth-year math graduate student studying harmonic analysis, along with some of its applications to the calculus of variations and PDEs, under Professor Nets Katz at Caltech... Read More →

Brittney Keel-Mercer is a Research Animal Geneticist with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Dr. Keel completed her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Central Missouri in 2009 and went on to complete her Master’s (2012) and Ph.D. (2015) in Mathematics... Read More →

Dr. Kay Kirkpatrick has been a professor at University of Illinois mathematics since 2011 and joined the U of I physics department in 2017. She earned a B.S. from Montana State University and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, both in pure mathematics, but always with a deep interest in physics... Read More →

Bridget Butler is a Senior Strategy Consultant focusing on consumer and small business credit cards at Wells Fargo. She received her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Kansas in 2007 where her undergraduate research focused on algebraic coding theory under Professor... Read More →

Skylyn Irby is a third-year graduate student in the University of Alabama Mathematics PhD program and Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Fellow. She earned a B.S. in mathematics with a minor in psychology from the University of Mississippi (UM). Skylyn was an undergraduate researcher... Read More →

Courtney George is a fourth-year graduate student at the University of Kentucky studying algebraic geometry with Dr. Christopher Manon. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Western Kentucky University. Outside of math, Courtney enjoys traveling, hiking, and spending... Read More →

Joan Ferrini-Mundy became president of the University of Maine (UMaine) and its regional campus, the University of Maine at Machias (UMM) in July 2018. In 2021, she was appointed vice chancellor for research and innovation for the University of Maine System (UMS). In this role, she... Read More →

Talithia Williams, associate professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, develops statistical models which emphasize the spatial and temporal structure of data, and applies them to problems in the environment. She has partnered with the World Health Organization in developing... Read More →

Leah Sturman is a fifth year graduate student at Oregon State university studying partition theory with Dr. Holly Swisher. She earned a B.A. in mathematics from Bates College in 2017. Leah enjoys playing board games and doing crossword puzzles.

Rachel Wofford is a graduate student in the mathematics department at Oregon State University. She is interested in applied and computational mathematics. Her current research focuses on determining the optimal machine learning model to predict cancer outcomes. Rachel started this... Read More →

Dr. Tiziana Giorgi is a temporary Program Officer in the Applied Mathematics Program of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation, and has been since August 2020. Her home institution is New Mexico State University, where she is a full professor in the... Read More →

Dr. Ami Radunskaya is the current President of the EDGE Foundation and former President of the Association for Women in Mathematics. She is a Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College and Paul Halmos Distinguished Visiting Professor at Santa Clara University. Her research areas include... Read More →

Henry Warchall is a Senior Advisor in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the NSF. He received a B.A. degree in Mathematics and Physics from Northwestern University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He held an instructorship... Read More →

Antonia “Toni” Bluher is a senior subject matter expert in cryptography at the National Security Agency (NSA). She grew up in Bloomington, Indiana and received an honors B.S. in mathematics from Indiana University in 1983. She completed Part III of the mathematical tripos at Cambridge... Read More →