Patricia Hersh Box 8205 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8205 Email: either plhersh at ncsu dot edu or plhersh12 at gmail dot com Office phone: 919-515-2385 Office location: 3122 SAS Hall

Welcome to my home page. I am an associate professor in the math department at North Carolina State University. Before this, I was an assistant professor (and promoted to associate professor) at Indiana University-Bloomington, a postdoc at MSRI (fall 2004), Michigan (2001-2004) and the University of Washington (1999-2001), went to grad school at MIT (1995-1999), and undergrad at Harvard (1991-1995). I spent fall 2010 visiting Cornell thanks to the very generous support of the Ruth Michler Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). Richard Stanley was my Ph.D. advisor, and Phil Hanlon was my NSF postdoc sponsoring scientist; Persi Diaconis was my undergraduate advisor.

Research:

Teaching:

• Math 724 -- Graduate (Geometric and Topological) Combinatorics (spring 2013, Tues/Thurs, 1:30-2:45pm in SAS 1218) -- second half of a year-long prelim course.
  

• Math 551 -- Graduate Topology (fall 2013, Mon/Wed/Fri, 12:25-1:15pm in Daniels 216) -- first half of a year-long prelim course. Textbook: Topology by James Munkres.
  
  
• Math 753 -- Graduate Algebraic Topology (spring 2014) -- second half of a year-long prelim course. Textbook: Algebraic Topology by Allen Hatcher.
  

• Web pages for classes taught in previous semesters

Seminar and conference organizing:

• Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics (TLC), series of combinatorial workshops. Next meeting is February 9, 2013 at Wake Forest University with speakers: Louis Billera, Rod Canfield, Matthew Kahle and Michelle Wachs. I serve on the TLC Steering Committee with Nathan Reading (NCSU), Ezra Miller (Duke), and Scott Provan (UNC Chapel Hill).
  
• 70th birthday conference for Richard Stanley at MIT (Cambridge, MA), final week of June in 2014. Coorganized with Karen Collins, Caroline Klivans, and Alex Postnikov.

• AMS special session on algebraic combinatorics, Oxford, MS, March 1-3, 2013. Coorganized with Dennis Stanton.
• AMS Committee on the Profession panel discussion on "Getting Started as a Research Mathematician", held at the Joint Math Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 9-12, 2013.
• AWM Schafer minisymposium in memory of Alice T. Schafer, AMS/MAA/SIAM/AWM joint meetings, New Orleans, Jan. 6-9, 2011. Five talks and a panel discussion on ``Getting Started as a Research Mathematician'', by Schafer prize winners. Coorganized with Sami Assaf (MIT) and Cheryl Grood (Swarthmore).
• AMS special session on Topology and Combinatorics, Syracuse, NY, Oct. 2-3, 2010. Coorganized with Laura Anderson (SUNY Binghamton).
  
• A mini-symposium on Topological Combinatorics at the SIAM meeting on Discrete Math in Austin, TX, June 14-17, 2010.
  
• NCSU Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar. Coorganized with Bojko Bakalov, 2008-2010.
  
• AMS special session on Rings, algebras, and varieties in combinatorics, Raleigh, NC, April 4-5, 2009 (with Nathan Reading and Cristian Lenart).
  
• Combinatorics Seminar at Indiana University, Bloomington, 2005-2008
  
• AMS special session on Combinatorial representation theory, topological combinatorics and interactions between them, Bloomington, IN, April 5-6, 2008 (with Cristian Lenart and Michelle Wachs).
  
• Special session on algebraic combinatorics held at Joint American/Austrian/German Math. Society meeting, Mainz, Germany, June 16-19, 2005 (with Christian Krattenthaler and Volkmar Welker).
• MSRI Postdoc Seminar, Fall 2004
• Michigan Combinatorics Seminar, 2003-2004 (with Sergey Fomin)
• AMS special session on Algebraic Combinatorics, Ann Arbor, MI, March 1-3, 2002 (with Brian Taylor).
  
• University of Washington Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar, 1999-2001 (with Eric Babson)

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