Really excited to give this talk next week to math department at Washington University in St. Louis!

I have a concussion and have to go offline for a while. This is the first time a doctor has prescribed “no proofs” until you are better.

Our book is out! "Mathematical and Computational Methods for Complex Social Systems" Editors: Heather Z. Brooks, Michelle Feng, Mason A. Porter, and Alexandria Volkening AMS site for the book: ams.org/books/psapm/08…

Summer CAMP: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting a professional development workshop aimed at early-career commutative algebraists on August 11—15, 2025, discussing careers in academia and outside of academia. Deadline: June 15. For more, see nebraskacommalg.github.io/RTG/conference…

Finally back to work next week after my concussion! Hope all is well to everyone still here!

This Cinco de Mayo feels extra festive because 5^2 =25!

Thoughts? cpr.org/2025/04/24/ana…

First of all…Happy International Women in Mathematics Day!

I'm leading an undergraduate team as part of a campus data science program this summer. I want them to leave with some project management skills. For those of you working in the 'real world,' how do you structure (bi)weekly reports for the projects you work on?

Just rescued a mini chalkboard from the department giveaway pile—it’s got a new home in my office now!

Just rescued a mini chalkboard from the department giveaway pile—it’s got a new home in my office now!

This summer I want to get more comfortable with Mapper. Here is one of my first (pretty bad) Mapper graph with almost no discernible structure!

Today is a Pythagorean triple! 7² + 24² = 25² → 49 + 576 = 625 💥 So 07/24/25 (or 24/07/25) = math magic.

I find it so rude that it is already August.

I’m super excited about my teaching assignments this Fall after having a few years off due to fellowship. One course I’m jazzed about is Introduction to High Dimensional Data Analysis! Has anyone out there taught something similar?

I asked ChatGPT to make a mock profile for Principal Components Analysis.