Presentations and Outreach

The Framing Effect Bias: Moving from deficit-framing to asset-framing our students

May 11, 2023 in Student Teaching Seminar

Conway’s Tiling Groups

April 17, 2023 in Student Counting Seminar

Squishing Double Dimers

February 23, 2023 in Student Counting Seminar

Most of us have played with unit cubes at some point in our early math lives, and have made a 2x2x2 cube out of eight 1x1x1 cubes. We take this idea - that there is some size-related self-similarity of certain regular shapes, and apply it to the honeycomb graph. We do this using the framework of the single and double dimer models, and run them through a map called the squish map. We use this as a means of proving a combinatorial theorem about plane partition enumeration, and show that the map is a measure preserving transformation. Along the way use the squish map to count how many different configurations of the single dimer model squish to a loop in the double dimer model, and discover a useful way to determine if a region has a tiling.

Grad School Panel

October 21, 2022 at Metropolitan State University of Denver (remote)

UO Women in STEM Graduate Panel

October 9, 2022 at University of Oregon