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 this, I was an assistant professor (and promoted to associate professor) at Indiana University, 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. 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:

Here are my papers, talk slides, 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.

Ph.D. students: Ruth Davidson, a third year Ph.D. student at NCSU (with coadvisor Seth Sullivant). Rebecca Swanson, Indiana University-Bloomington 2010 Ph.D., now an assistant professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Daniel Jordan also did some research with me at Indiana, though Michael Larsen was his Ph.D. advisor there.

Editorial board: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics

Some helpful organizations: NSF, AMS, AWM, MAA and SIAM.

Teaching:

Math 524 -- Graduate (Enumerative) Combinatorics (fall 2011, Tues/Thurs, 1:30-2:45pm in Burlington 3108) -- first half of a year-long prelim course. Midterm solutions
Math 724 -- Graduate (Geometric and Topological) Combinatorics (spring 2012, Tues/Thurs, 1:30-2:45pm in SAS 1218) -- second half of a year-long prelim course. Syllabus
Web pages for classes taught in previous semesters

Seminar and conference organizing:

Currently coorganizing:

Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics (TLC), series of combinatorial workshops. Next meeting is February 11, 2012 at Duke. I serve on the TLC Steering Committee with Nathan Reading (NCSU), Ezra Miller (Duke), and Scott Provan (UNC Chapel Hill).

Previously organized/coorganized:

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)

Links:

Here are some math links.