Welcome to Ruth Davidson's homepage!
I am a math Ph.D. student at North Carolina State University in Raleigh , NC
Office: SAS Hall Room 3145
Office hours Spring 2012 Tuesday, Thursday 1:30-2:30 pm, or by appointment
Contact: redavids at ncsu dot edu
I am teaching Math 108: Precalculus II.
My areas of research interest are pure and applied geometric and topological combinatorics. I am particularly interested in using combinatorics to analyze phylogenetic algorithms.
My advisors are Seth Sullivant and Patricia Hersh.
Go to the arXiv to read a paper I submitted with Dr. Hersh "A lexicographic shellability characterization of geometric lattices."My poster Polyhedral Combinatorics of UPGMA Cones (with Seth Sullivant) from SIAM AG11 October 7,2011 at NCSU
Slides for The Geometry of Tree Reconstruction from the NCSU Graduate Algebra Seminar 9/30/11
Slides for "A lexicographic shellability characterization of geometric lattices." Algebra Seminar at UNC-Charlotte 11/30/11
Commutative Algebra Summer School at MSRI June 6-17 2011
SIAM AG11 Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, October 6-9 2011
Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics
I received my B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Washington, Seattle. You can click here to read my undergraduate thesis. My undergraduate thesis advisor was Sara Billey. You can visit her homepage here.