Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1998.
        University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
        Thesis Advisor: Professor Jane Hawkins
        Thesis Title:  Ergodic and Bernoulli Properties of Analytic Maps of Complex Projective Space

M.A. in Mathematics Education, 1992.
        Teachers College, Columbia University

B.A. in Computer Science, 1989.
        Columbia College, Columbia University

Teaching Experience

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dickinson College. 2005 - present.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dickinson College. 1998 - 2005.

Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Mathematics, UNC at Chapel Hill.  1992 - 1998.

Mathematics Instructor, Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth.  Summers 1995 - 1996.

Mathematics Teacher, The Brearley School, New York, NY.  1989 - 1991.
 

Papers

With. J. Hawkins,  Connectivity Properties of Julia Sets of Weierstrass Elliptic Functions, Topology and its Applications, Vol. 152, Issues 1-2 ( 2005), 107-137.

With. J. Hawkins,  Parametrized Dynamics of the Wieierstrass Elliptic Function, Conf. Geo. and Dyn., 8 (2004), 1 - 35.

With. J. Hawkins, Ergodic Properties and Julia Sets of Weierstrass Elliptic Functions,  Monatsh. Math. 137 (2002) 4, 273-300.

With J. Barnes, A Julia Set that is Everything,  Math. Magazine, 76 (2003) 4, 255 - 263.

Ergodic and Bernoulli Properties of Analytic Maps of Complex Projective Space, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol 354 (2002), 2417-2450.

With J. Barnes, One-Sided Lebesgue BernoulliMaps of the Sphere of Degree n^2 and 2n^2, Internat. J. Math.  Math. Sci., Vol. 23, No. 6 (2000), 383 - 392.
 

Professional Talks and Presentations

Dynamics of the Weierstrass Elliptic Function, Seminar on Dynamics and Related Topics, George Washington University, July 8, 2004.

Complex Iteration and Julia Sets,  Swarthmore College Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium, February 10, 2004.

Connectivity Properties of Julia Sets of Weierstrass Elliptic Functions, AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Measurable, Complex, and Symbolic Dyanmics, Chapel Hill, NC, October 24 - 25, 2003.

Parametrized Dynamics of the Weierstrass Elliptic Function, First Joint Meeting of the AMS/RSME, Seville, Spain, June 18 - 21, 2003.

Dynamics of the Weierstrass Elliptic Function, University of Pennsylvania Geometry-Topology Seminar, Philadelphia, PA, February 13. 2003.

Parameter Spaces of the Wierstrass Elliptic Function, AMS Regional  Meeting,  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical
Systems, Boston, MA, October 5 - 6, 2002.

Dynamics of the Weierstrass Elliptic Function, AMS Regional  Meeting,  Special Session on Ergodic Theory, Williamstown, MA, October 13 - 14, 2001.

Julia Sets and Chaos, Washington and Lee University Mathematics Department Colloquium, Lexington, VA, May 15, 2001.

Bernoulli Partitions for toral endomorphisms and complex base expansionsMiniconference on Tilings of the Plane and Complex Dynamics,
UNC Chapel Hill,  November 4, 2000.

Bernoulli Properties of a Class of Rational Mapsof the Sphere, Bryn Mawr/Haverford College Math Colloquium, Bryn Mawr, PA, April 24, 2000.

Bernoulli Properties of Complex DynamicalSystems.' AMS Summer Reserach Institute in Smooth Ergodic Theory, Seattle, WA, August 1-5, 1999.

Ergodic Theory of Analytic Maps of P^1andP^2.  Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA,  Special Session on Smooth Ergodic Theory and Related
Areas, Baltimore, MD, January 7 - 10, 1998.

Ergodic Theory of Analytic Maps of  Complex Projective Space.  Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA,  AWM Workshop Poster Session, Baltimore,
MD, January 7 - 10, 1998.

Measure-theoretic Properties of Analytic Maps of P^1andP^2.   AMS Regional Meeting,  Special Session on Complex and Algebraic Dynamics and
Applications, Atlanta, GA, October 17 - 19, 1997.

Analytic Bernoulli Maps of P^1 and P^2. Erwin Schroedinger Institute, Vienna,  Austria, July 1997.

A Construction of Ergodic Analytic Maps ofCP^2. AMS Regional meeting, Special Session on Complex Dynamics, Greensboro, NC, Nov. 17 - 18, 1995.

Honors and Awards

Principal Investigator for Bernoulli Properties of Complex Dynamical Systems.  NSF/RUI Analysis Program,
Award #9970575, $41,715, 1999-2002.

Dana Student Intern grant for an undergraduate research project on fractiles in the plane.  2001-2002.

Project NExT (New Experience in Teaching) Fellow.  1998 - 1999.

Linker Teaching Award in Mathematics, Nominee.  1997 - 1998 and 1996 - 1997.

Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Grant, U.S. Department of Education. 1993 - 1996, 1997 - 1998.

Professional Memberships

American Mathematical Society

Association for Women in Mathematics

Mathematical Association of America

Campus Responsibilities

Planning and Budget Committee: 2001 -

Queensland Study Abroad Advisory Committee: 2001 -

Sexual Assault Awareness Workshop Presenter: 2001

Student Science Research Symposium Organizer: 1999-2001

NSB Community Open House Organizer: 2000

NSB Parent Weekend Open House Organizer:  1999 -

Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority Advisor: 1999 -

Global Executive Committee: 1999 -

Science Executive Committee: 1999- 2001

A Day in the Life Panelist 1999 - 2000

Putnam Team Coordinator: 1998 - 2000

MCM Team Coordinator: 1999

Major and Freshman Advising: 1998 -