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Aubrey HB - Graduate Student

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I was born and lived most of my life in New Jersey (about where that arrow points). I went to a private school, for middle through high school, that had such an impact on my life, I refuse correspondances from it. I did, as most people, enjoy my summers which were spent attending and working at Seashore Day Camp as a pool administrator. This entailed databasing and cataloging the instructional swim progression of each of the 850 campers.

I spent my first year of college at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. My second through fourth years were spent happily at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York, NY. I graduated in May 2005 with a double major in Theatre and Mathematics, and honors in both subjects. If you are interested in my Theatre background and present involvement, click here.

My undergraduate research in Math was under the direction of Ilya Kofman, serving as an exposition of the work done by Dan Silver and Susan Williams. In particular, it explored using symbolic dynamics for a knot invariant. I won both, the Lucyle-Hook Travel grant to visit them, and a prize for Outsanding Undergraduate Thesis in Mathematics from Barnard.

During the summers, I served as a Deli specialist, attended BADA, worked as an actuarial assistant at Mellon Financial Corporation, attended the Summer Program for Women in Mathematics and worked as a defense planner for Wave Technologies.

I began my graduate studies in Mathematics at Duke University in Fall 2005, enrolling in a 5 year program to complete my PhD. I spent my first summer envolved with a humanitarian effort sponsored by the Petters Research Institute , where I taught precalculus as well as advanced math to the Belize Defense Force and talented students in Dangriga, Belize.


I have most recently been focused on my own research project, and thus have not taken part in external organizations since the Petters Research Institute.  Every winter I dutifully attend the Joint Mathematics Meetings as a proud alumnae of the Summer Program for Women in Mathematics.