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I was born in Chicago, IL and raised by my parents Victoria Quade and Charles White. I have two siblings: Michael and Catherine. I attended Saint Clement School from K-8 and then Saint Ignatius High School, where I began to develop my interest in mathematics by participating in the math team. I next attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and studied abroad in the Budapest Semester in Mathematics program before starting my graduate career at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. There I studied mathematics and computer science concurrently, completing my computer science masters degree in 2012 (under the supervision of Danny Krizanc), and my PhD in mathematics in 2014 (under the supervision of Mark Hovey). I began as an Assistant Professor at Denison in the fall of 2014, and was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2020.
Athlete/Coach
I used to be a semi-professional beach volleyball player, but have stopped playing competitively in recent years. I have since taken up hiking and traveling. I continue to coach volleyball in my free time. I have been an assistant coach for the Bowdoin and Wesleyan NCAA women's teams, and as a head coach for the Bowdoin and Wesleyan club volleyball teams. If you need any drills you can email me.
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I was born in Chicago, IL and raised by my parents Victoria Quade and Charles White. I have two siblings: Michael and Catherine. I attended Saint Clement School from K-8 and then Saint Ignatius High School, where I began to develop my interest in mathematics by participating in the math team. I next attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and studied abroad in the Budapest Semester in Mathematics program before starting my graduate career at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. There I studied mathematics and computer science concurrently, completing my computer science masters degree in 2012 (under the supervision of Danny Krizanc), and my PhD in mathematics in 2014 (under the supervision of Mark Hovey). I began as an Assistant Professor at Denison in the fall of 2014, and was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2020.
Athlete/Coach
I used to be a semi-professional beach volleyball player, but have stopped playing competitively in recent years. I have since taken up hiking and traveling. I continue to coach volleyball in my free time. I have been an assistant coach for the Bowdoin and Wesleyan NCAA women's teams, and as a head coach for the Bowdoin and Wesleyan club volleyball teams. If you need any drills you can email me.
Links (infrequently updated)
- My papers on the arXiv: in
mathematics, computer
science, statistics,
& economics.
- I used to contribute to MathOverflow. You can find my page here.
- I'm an active contributor to Academia.SE.
You can find my page here.
- The Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- I am a member of the US Attorney's Heroin Opiate Task
Force, Data Subcommittee, since 2024.
- For many years, I was a member of the PMA Council, which advised the board of the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program.
- I am an editor for the Graduate
Journal
of Mathematics.
- I am a founding editor of the User's Guides project, first
published under the banner of the Journal of Humanistic
Mathematics in 2015-2017.
- My affiliations and research visits: Denison University, Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2022), Masaryk University (2022), Universidad Austral de Chile (2017, 2018), the University of Kagoshima (2017), the Max Planck Institute in Bonn (2016), Oranim University (2015), the Hausdorff Institute of Mathematics (2015), the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (2014, 2015), NSF-EAPSI Fellow (2014), Macquarie University (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018), Ohio State Newark (2014), Wesleyan University (2008-2014), IMUB at the University of Barcelona (2013, 2015, 2017), the NSA (2010), University of Utah and PCMI (2008), Bowdoin College (2005-2008), Budapest Semsters in Mathematics (2007), Wabash College (2007).
- My academic family: Mark Hovey, Gabriel Valenzuela, Daniel Bravo, Mehdi Khorami, Weiwei Pan, Jim Gillespie, Manny Lopez.
- The Hopf Topology Archive for papers.
- I am currently an administrator for Niles Johnson's Topology Conference List. You can also look for conferences at these links: AMS Sectional Meetings, Topology Atlas, Midwest Topology Seminar, Sarah Whitehouse's List of Topology Conferences (mostly in Europe), British Topology Homepage, Algebraic Topology listserv, Category Theory listserv, Homotopy Type Theory Homepage.
- I was a founding member and first President of the Wesleyan University AMS Student Chapter. You can start your own student chapter, too. In case it helps, here is the Budget.
- Activist
- Mindfulness and meditation
- Love to cook, and learn new recipes
- Maintain a beer journal, wine journal, and journals about
my travels
- Scuba Level: Divemaster
- Countries and Autonomous Territories
visited (over 140 countries):
- Australia, New Zealand, Sovereign
Yidindji Government.
- Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia,
Thailand, Cambodia, Japan,
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Brunei, North Korea.
- Mexico, Canada,
Costa Rica, Jamaica, Bermuda, Cuba, Guatemala, Belize,
Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe,
Saint Martin, Sint Martin, Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts
and Nevis, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Barbados,
Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and
Tobago, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador.
- England, France,
Germany, Hungary,
Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy,
Vatican City, Greece, Spain, The Catalan Republic, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Freetown Christiania, Sweden, Iceland, Portugal,
Monaco, Poland, Andorra, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia,
Finland, Belarus, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Malta,
Sovereign Order of Malta,
Luxembourg, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia,
Montenegro, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Mount Athos,
Cyprus,
Akrotiri,
Dhekelia,
North
Cyprus, Armenia, Artsakh, Azerbaijan, Georgia, South
Ossetia, Abkhazia, Republic of Ireland, Northern
Ireland, Greenland, Aland, Norway, Jersey, Guernsey,
Wales, Scotland.
- Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt
- Turkey, (----), Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq, Qatar.
- Iran - I get a lot of questions about this one, so I'll mention that Americans have to go with a tour and I went with the company Trip to Persia.
- Nepal, India, Pakistan, the Maldives,
Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh.
- Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
Karakalpakstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan,
Mongolia.
- Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana,
Suriname, French Guiana.
- Antarctica, the
Falklands,
South Georgia Island.
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