Patricia Hersh's Home Page

NCSU address:

Patricia Hersh
Box 8205
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8205

New Email: plhersh at uoregon dot edu
NCSU Email: plhersh at ncsu dot edu
NCSU Office Phone: 919-515-2385
NCSU Office location: 3226 SAS Hall

Welcome to my home page. I am a professor in the math department at North Carolina State University and am moving to the University of Oregon math department where I have been appointed as a full professor and will start teaching at Oregon in spring 2020. Previously, I was a faculty member at Indiana University-Bloomington for several years, a postdoc at MSRI (fall 2004), Michigan (2001-2004) and the University of Washington (1999-2001), went to grad school at MIT (1995-1999), and undergrad at Harvard (1991-1995). 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 at Michigan; Persi Diaconis was my undergraduate advisor.

Research:

Here are my publications, talk slides and upcoming talks/conferences, and my CV.

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: Molly Lynch, NCSU 2019 Ph.D., with first position at Hollins University. Grace Stadnyk, NCSU 2019 Ph.D., with tenure track position at Furman University. Chetak Hossain, NCSU 2019 Ph.D. (with coadvisor Nathan Reading). Ruth Davidson, NCSU 2014 Ph.D. (with coadvisor Seth Sullivant), with first position at UIUC math and computer science departments. Rebecca Swanson, Indiana University-Bloomington 2010 Ph.D., now a teaching professor at Colorado School of Mines. Current student: Stephen Lacina (3rd year).

Editorial boards and advisory boards: Forum of Mathematics (discrete math editor, March 2019--December 2023), Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics (advisory board, April 2019--March 2022), Proceedings of the AMS (combinatorics editor, February 2014--January 2022) and SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (January 2011--December 2016).

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

Teaching:

Upcoming semester:

Math 437-001, Applications of Algebra, Tues/Thurs 8:30-9:45am, Park Shops 215 (syllabus) .
Math 591-003, Graduate Topological Combinatorics, Mon/Wed 1:30-2:45pm, Daniels Hall 232 (syllabus).

Previous semesters:

Information for classes taught in previous semesters

Seminar and conference organizing:

Currently coorganizing:

Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics (TLC), series of combinatorial workshops. I serve on the TLC Steering Committee with Ricky Liu (NCSU), Ezra Miller (Duke), Gabor Pataki (UNC Chapel Hill), and Cynthia Vinzant (NCSU).

Recently organized/coorganized:

MSRI Workshop on Geometric and Topological Combinatorics: Modern Techniques and Methods, Berkeley, CA, October 9-13, 2017. Coorganized with Vic Reiner (U. Minnesota), Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley), Frank Vallentin (U. Köln) and Günter Ziegler (Freie U. Berlin).
AMS special session on representation stability and its applications, Bloomington, IN, April 1-2, 2017. Coorganized with Jeremy Miller (Purdue) and Andrew Putman (Notre Dame).
70th birthday conference for Richard Stanley at MIT (Cambridge, MA), June 23-27, 2014. Coorganized with Karen Collins (Wesleyan), Caroline Klivans (Brown), and Alex Postnikov (MIT).
AMS Committee on the Profession panel discussion on "Online courses: benefits and pitfalls". Coorganized with Dan Abramovich (Brown), held at the Joint Math Meetings, Baltimore, MD, January 15-18, 2014.
AMS special session on algebraic combinatorics, Oxford, MS, March 1-3, 2013. Coorganized with Dennis Stanton (U. Minnesota).
AMS Committee on the Profession panel discussion on "Getting Started as a Research Mathematician", held at the Joint Math Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 9-12, 2013.
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 then, USC now) and Cheryl Grood (Swarthmore).

Older events previously organized/coorganized:

Web pages for events, conferences, and seminars previously organized.