Name: Networking with Invited Guests: Breakout Room Listing
Start: 2021-01-23T19:00:00-0600
End: 2021-01-23T20:00:00-0600

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Networking with Invited Guests: Breakout Room Listing

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Read bios for each of the breakout room hosts here: https://www.math.unl.edu/~ncuwm/23rdAnnual/resources/

Breakout Rooms by Number
1 - Cecilia Aragon, Plenary Speaker, University of Washington, Seattle
2 - Ruth Haas, Plenary Speaker, University of Hawaii, Mānoa
3- Talitha Washington, Plenary Speaker, Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative, and Clark Atlanta University
4 - Karoline Pershell, Panelist, Service Robotics & Technologies
5 - Julia Read-LaBelle, Panelist, Nike, Inc.
6 - Shanise Walker, Panelist, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
7 - Laura White, Panelist, NASA Langley Research Center
8 - Martha Yip, Panelist, University of Kentucky
9 - Hayley Bertrand, Invited Grad, Indiana University Bloomington
10 - Nicole Buczkowski, Invited Grad, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
11 - Maryam Khaqan, Invited Grad, Emory University
12 - Rachel Knak, Invited Grad, The University of Arizona
13 - Gage Martin, Invited Grad, Boston College
14 - Mackenzie Simper, Invited Grad, Stanford University
15 - Alexandra Seceleanu, Faculty, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Susan Hermiller, Faculty, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
16 - Alex Zupan, Faculty and NCUWM Co-Chair, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
17 - Kimberly Shurupoff, Panelist, NSA
18 - Tomek Bartoszynski, Invited Guest, NSF, and Eun Heui Kim, Invited Guest, NSF
19 - Lara Ismert, Invited Guest, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
20 - Undergraduate Networking (hosted by UNL graduate student Vince Longo)

Speakers

Cecilia Aragon

Professor and Director, Human Centered Data Science Lab; Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington

Cecilia Aragon is Director of the Human Centered Data Science Lab, Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, Founding Co-Director of the University of Washington Data Science Master’s Program, and Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at... Read More →

Ruth Haas

Professor of Mathematics; President, AWM, University of Hawaii, Mānoa

Ruth Haas is the President of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). She is a Professor and Graduate Chair of Mathematics at the University of Hawaii, Mānoa. She is also Achilles Professor Emerita in Mathematics and Statistics at Smith College where she co-founded and co-directed... Read More →

Talitha Washington

Director, Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative

Dr. Talitha Washington is the inaugural Director of the Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative. This new initiative seeks to provide data-driven solutions to current and emerging societal problems, especially as it pertains to the African American community. Poised to bring... Read More →

Karoline Pershell

COO and Director of Strategy & Evaluation, Service Robotics & Technologies

Karoline Pershell received her B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee at Martin, where she was a member of the UTM Rodeo Team as the first full time female bull rider in the collegiate circuit. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Rice University. Following... Read More →

Julia Read-LaBelle

Global Supply & Inventory Analyst, Nike, Inc.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Julia Read-LaBelle began her career at Texas Instruments working on signal processing algorithms. While working at TI, she obtained her Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from... Read More →

Shanise Walker

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Dr. Shanise Walker is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She received her Ph.D. from Iowa State University. Her research interests lie in combinatorics and graph theory. She has studied various combinatorics and graph theory problems... Read More →

Laura White

Aerospace Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center

Laura White is an Aerospace Engineer at NASA Langley Research Center. She received a bachelors in Mathematics from Arkansas State University in 2013. Her undergraduate research focused on optimal statistical design of experiments for engineering and science applications. In 2018... Read More →

Martha Yip

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Kentucky

Martha Yip is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky. Previously, she served as a Hans Rademacher Instructor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests are... Read More →

Hayley Bertrand

Graduate Student (Invited), Indiana University

Hayley Bertrand is a fourth-year graduate student at Indiana University studying algebra, especially in the topological setting, under Dr. Ayelet Lindenstrauss. She received her bachelor’s in mathematics from St. Norbert College in 2017 and her master’s in mathematics from Indiana... Read More →

Nicole Buczkowski

Graduate Student (Invited), University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Nicole Buczkowski is a fourth-year graduate student at UNL and is advised by Petronela Radu and Mikil Foss studying nonlocal models. She obtained her B.S. in mathematics and mechanical engineering in 2017 from Jacksonville University. In her free time, Nicole likes to play with her... Read More →

Maryam Khaqan

Graduate Student (Invited), Emory University

Maryam Khaqan is a Ph.D. candidate at Emory University working under the supervision of Dr. John Duncan on moonshine and related aspects of number theory. Maryam grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, where she finished her undergraduate studies in physics and mathematics at Lahore University... Read More →

Gage Martin

Graduate Student (Invited), Boston College

Gage Martin is a fourth-year graduate student at Boston College working in the field of low-dimensional topology and knot theory, advised by Dr. J. Elisenda Grigsby. She received her B.A. in mathematics from Marlboro College in 2016. When she isn't working on math, Gage enjoys cooking... Read More →

Mackenzie Simper

Graduate Student (Invited), Stanford University

Mackenzie Simper is a fourth-year graduate student at Stanford, focusing on applied probability with Persi Diaconis. Her hometown is Salt Lake City, where she graduated from Salt Lake Community College and the University of Utah. After undergrad, she spent one year at Cambridge as... Read More →

Rachel Knak

Graduate Student (Invited), University of Arizona

Rachel Knak is a fourth-year graduate student at the University of Arizona studying algebraic number theory under Dr. Brandon Levin. She earned her B.A. in Mathematics and Statistics and her B.A. in Religious Studies from Grinnell College in 2017. In her spare time Rachel enjoys cooking... Read More →

Lara Ismert

Faculty, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

Lara Ismert is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska in 2019, where she began her research career in the exciting field of operator algebras. Dr. Ismert's... Read More →

Susan Hermiller

Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Prof. Susan Hermiller has been the director of the graduate program at UNL since 2011. In her research she explores connections between geometric properties and the complexity of computational algorithms for groups. She became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2019... Read More →

Alex Zupan

Faculty, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

I'm in my seventh year on the NCUWM Organizing Committee and am currently co-chair. My research is in geometry and topology. In particular, I study 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds and the theory of knots in these dimensions. Before arriving at UNL, I earned my Ph.D. from the University... Read More →

Alexandra Sececleanu

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Alexandra Seceleanu is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she also serves as graduate program recruitment coordinator. After spending her formative years in Romania, she received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign... Read More →

Kimberly Shurupoff

Director of Mathematics and Statistics Hiring, National Security Agency

Kimberly Shurupoff is the Director of Mathematics and Statistics Hiring at the National Security Agency (NSA). She oversees the hiring process for NSA's three full-time Mathematics Development Programs and three mathematics summer internship programs, as well as coordinates mathematics... Read More →

Eun Heui Kim

Program Director, National Science Foundation

I have a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, and am a full professor at the California State University, Long Beach. I am currently a program director at NSF and my work website ishttps://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=eukim&org=NSF&from_org=NSF... Read More →

Tomek Bartoszynski