Patricia Hersh's Home Page
Patricia Hersh
Box 8205
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8205
Email: plhersh at ncsu.edu
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 coming to NCSU, I was an assistant professor in the
math department
at Indiana University (2004-2009, on
leave 2008-2009) and prior to
that was a postdoc at
MSRI (fall 2004),
Michigan (2001-2004) and
the
University of Washington (1999-2001), went to grad school at
MIT (1995-1999), undergrad at
Harvard (1991-1995),
and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan.
Richard Stanley was my
advisor, and
Phil Hanlon was my NSF postdoc sponsoring scientist;
Persi Diaconis was my undergraduate advisor.
Research:
Here are my
papers and
CV. This work
is supported by NSF grant DMS-1002636.
Research interests: combinatorics, particularly as it relates to fields like
topology, commutative algebra, representation theory and theoretical
computer science.
I'm especially interested in
combinatorial methods for studying topological structure, often with
algebraic applications in mind.
Teaching:
Math 591 (Section 004) -- Graduate (Geometric) Combinatorics (spring 2010, Tues/Thurs 1:30-2:45pm, SAS 1218);
Syllabus
Math 591 (Section 003) -- Graduate (Enumerative) Combinatorics (fall 2009, Tues/Thurs 1:30-2:45pm, SAS 1218);
Syllabus;
Homework
Web pages for classes taught in previous semesters
Seminars and conferences:
Currently organizing/co-organizing:
Previously organized/co-organized:
-
AMS special session on
Rings, algebras, and varieties in combinatorics, Raleigh, North
Carolina, 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, Indiana, 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, Michigan,
March 1-3, 2002 (with Brian Taylor).
- University of Washington Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar, 1999-2001 (with Eric Babson)
Links:
Here are some
math links.