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Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Mathematics & Statistics Wake Forest University Email: hillk <at> wfu.edu Office: Manchester 385 Mail: Department of Mathematics Wake Forest University P.O. Box 7388 127 Manchester Hall Winston-Salem, NC 27109 |
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A bit about me:
I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where I came to love hiking and backpacking by exploring the nearby Texas hill country. I went to college a few hours north of San Antonio at Baylor University, where I was a University Scholars major - an interdisciplinary major that focused on studying the Great Texts while concentrating in a few additional subjects, in my case mathematics and French. After college I moved a few more hours north to attend graduate school in applied mathematics at Northwestern University, near Chicago. Next I moved further north (and a bit west) to work as a MathCEP Postdoc at the University of Minnesota. After nearly running out of further north to go, I turned around and headed back south to work as a Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. When not doing math, I enjoy hiking, playing viola in a community orchestra, cooking, and reading.
Recent updates:
I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where I came to love hiking and backpacking by exploring the nearby Texas hill country. I went to college a few hours north of San Antonio at Baylor University, where I was a University Scholars major - an interdisciplinary major that focused on studying the Great Texts while concentrating in a few additional subjects, in my case mathematics and French. After college I moved a few more hours north to attend graduate school in applied mathematics at Northwestern University, near Chicago. Next I moved further north (and a bit west) to work as a MathCEP Postdoc at the University of Minnesota. After nearly running out of further north to go, I turned around and headed back south to work as a Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. When not doing math, I enjoy hiking, playing viola in a community orchestra, cooking, and reading.
Recent updates:
- Jan 2022 : I'll give two talks at the Joint Math Meetings this January. Come say hi! The talks will be on:
- "Most probable transition paths in piecewise-smooth stochastic differential equations" (Wed, Jan 5, 4pm, Room 615, Convention Center)
- "Creating Opportunities for Undergraduate Research" (Sat, Jan 7, 11:00-12:15 pm, Room 4C-3, Convention Center)
- Oct 2021 : Gave a talk on modeling gender bias and self-seeking in professional hierarchies as part of the fall Integrating Research in Science faculty seminar series. View a recording here.
- Jan 2021 : Gave a talk on GLEAM at the Joint Math Meetings online. View my slides here.
- Sept 2020 : I got pied! The student chapter of the AWM ran a fundraiser to pie faculty in exchange for funding for conference travel.
- Jun 2019 : Directed the IMA-MathCEP Math Modeling camp again! Topics this year were quantifying gerrymandering, predicting Asian carp spread, modeling the carbon footprint of our food, and optimizing city parks.
- May 2019 : Attended SIAM Dynamical Systems conference at Snowbird, Utah.
- Sept 2018 : Co-organized the AMS MRC Micro-conference on Differential Equations, Probability, and Sea Ice.
- Jun 2018 : Co-directed the IMA-MathCEP Math Modeling camp; helped run the <run>:\the\world Machine Learning Camp and the UMTYMP Summer enrichment program in Minneapolis.
- Mar 2018 : U Minnesota received an MAA Tensor Women and Mathematics grant to run GLEAM: Girls Learning and Exploring Applications of Mathematics. See here for more details about GLEAM.
- Jan 2018 : Co-organized the Joint Math Meetings Project NExT session on Incorporating Social Justice Projects into the College Mathematics Curriculum. Slides and resources available here.
