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:

NCSU Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar which meets on Fridays at 4pm, coorganized with Bojko Bakalov.
Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics (TLC), series of combinatorial workshops. Coorganized with Nathan Reading (NCSU), Ezra Miller (Duke), and Scott Provan (UNC Chapel Hill).
A mini-symposium on topological combinatorics at the SIAM meeting on Discrete Math in Austin, Texas, June 14-17, 2010.

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.