Kieval Lecture

Join us for the 78th Kieval Lecture

The Humboldt Department of Mathematics presents this lecture series. Named for Humboldt Mathematics Professor Emeritus. Dr. Harry S. Kieval taught at Humboldt from 1966 to 1979; the series includes topics on popular and/or broad aspects of mathematics attractive to undergraduates and the public.

The 78th Kieval Lecture will take place on the evening of Friday, October 14, 2022 at 7:00 PM in SCI B 135. The speaker is Dr. Pamela E. Harris from University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Her talk is titled How to choose your own mathematical adventures.

Dr. Pamela E. Harris is a Mexican-American mathematician and serves as Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her B.S. from Marquette University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Pamela E. Harris's research is in algebraic combinatorics and she is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed research articles in internationally recognized journals. An award winning mathematical educator, Dr. Harris was the 2020 recipient of the MAA Northeast Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching, the 2019 MAA Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member, and the 2019 Council on Undergraduate Research Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division Early Career Faculty Mentor Award, and the 2022 MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Excellence in Mathematical Education. She has supervised the research of over 120 undergraduate students, a majority of whom identify as members of groups historically excluded in higher education, has served as a research faculty mentor for undergraduate research programs at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, and she is a trained Entering Mentoring Workshop Facilitator. She is the President and co-founder of Lathisms: Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences, cohosts the podcast Mathematically Uncensored and is a coauthor of the books Asked And Answered: Dialogues On Advocating For Students of Color in Mathematics, Practices and Policies: Advocating for Students of Color in Mathematics, and Read and Rectify: Advocacy Stories from Student of Color in Mathematics.

La Dra. Pamela E. Harris es una matemática mexicoamericana que se desempeña como Profesora Asociada en el Departamento de Matemáticas y Estadística del Williams College y en el otoño de 2022 se unirá a la Facultad de la Universidad de Wisconsin en Milwaukee como Profesora Asociada de Matemáticas. Ella recibió su B.S. de la Universidad de Marquette, y su M.S. y doctorado en matemáticas de la Universidad de Wisconsin-Milwaukee. La investigación de la Dra. Pamela E. Harris se centra en la combinatoria algebraica. Es autora de más de 50 artículos de investigación, revisados por pares y publicados en revistas reconocidas internacionalmente. Galardonada como  educadora matemática: la Dr. Harris recibió en el 2020 el Premio de la Sección Noreste de la MAA por Enseñanza Distinguida en Colegios o Universidades, el Premio Henry L. Alder de la MAA 2019 por Enseñanza Distinguida de un Miembro Principiante en alguna Facultad de Matemáticas de una Universidad o un Colegio y el premio 2019 del Consejo de Investigación Matemática de Pregrado y  la División de Ciencias de la Computación a un Miembro de la Facultad en la Fase Inicial de su Carrera (2019 Council on Undergraduate Research Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division Early Career Faculty Mentor Award). También fue seleccionada como miembro de la clase inaugural 2020 del Karen Uhlenbeck EDGE Fellows y es una de las 50 mujeres que aparecen en el libro "Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics".

Su misión profesional es desarrollar comunidades de aprendizaje que refuercen la identidad propia de los estudiantes como científicos, en particular entre las mujeres y las minorías subrepresentadas. Para apoyar esta misión, la Dra. Harris coorganiza simposios de investigación y sesiones de desarrollo profesional en la conferencia nacional de la Sociedad para el Avance de Chicanos/Hispanos y Nativos Americanos en la Ciencia (SACNAS), y es editora del blog e-Mentoring Network de la American Mathematical Society.

Además, para brindar visibilidad y aumentar el impacto positivo de los modelos a seguir dentro de sus comunidades, la Dra. Harris cofundó y es presidenta de Lathisms: Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences, una organización con sede en los Estados Unidos que amplifica y muestra las contribuciones en las ciencias matemáticas de los académicos latinxs e hispanxs. Es coanfitriona del podcast Mathematically Uncensored y recientemente es coautora de la serie de libros  Asked And Answered: Dialogues On Advocating For Students of Color in Mathematics, Practices and Policies: Advocating for Students of Color in Mathematics, y Read and Rectify: Advocacy Stories From Students of Color in Mathematics.

 

Previous lecturers in this series

  • Jesus De Loera (video) Spring 2022 (UC Davis)
  • Stephen Trettel (video) Fall 2021 (Stanford University)
  • Richard Schwartz (details) Spring 2020 (Brown University)
  • Zvezdelina Stankova (details) Fall 2019 (UC Berkeley)
  • Frank Farris (details) Spring 2019 (Santa Clara University)
  • Alon Amit (details) Fall 2018 (Origami Logic)
  • Gigliola Staffilani (details) Spring 2018 (MIT)
  • Ken Ono (details) Fall 2017 (Emory University)
  • Francis Su (details) Spring 2017 (Harvey Mudd College)
  • Erica Flapan (details) Fall 2016 (Pomona College)
  • Bernd  Sturmfels (details) Spring 2016 (University of California at Berkeley)
  • Federico Ardila (details) Fall 2015 (San Francisco State University)
  • Margot Gerritsen (details) Spring 2015 (Stanford University)
  • Benson Farb (details) Fall 2014 (University of Chicago)
  • Tim Chartier (details) Spring 2014 (Davidson College North Carolina)
  • Alan Schoenfeld (details) Fall 2013 (University of California at Berkeley)
  • Abigail Thompson (details) Spring 2013 (University of California at Davis)
  • Robert Bryant (details) Fall 2012 (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute)
  • William G. McCallum (details) Spring 2012 (University of Arizona)
  • Kenneth Ribet (details) Fall 2011 (University of California at Berkeley)
  • David Pengelley (details) Spring 2011 (New Mexico State University)
  • Alice Silverberg (details) Fall 2010 (University of California at Irvine)
  • Robert J. Lang (details) Spring 2010 
  • Kenneth Golden (details) Fall 2009 (University of Utah)
  • Tony DeRose (details) Spring 2009 (Pixar Studios)
  • Underwood Dudley (details) Fall 2008 (DePauw University)
  • Donald Albers (details) Spring 2008 (Mathematical Assoc of America Books)
  • C. Edward Sandifer (details) Fall 2007 (Western Connecticut State University)
  • Melanie Wood (details) Spring 2007 (Princeton University)
  • Jerald Marsden (details) Fall 2006 (California Institute of Technology)
  • Deborah Ball (details) Spring 2006 (University of Michigan)
  • Majorie Senechal (details) Fall 2005 (Smith College)
  • Joe Gallian (details) Spring 2005 (University of Minnesota Duluth)
  • Jennifer Quinn (details) Fall 2004 (Occidental College)
  • John Conway (details) Spring 2004 (Princeton University)
  • Persi Diaconis (details) Fall 2003, (Stanford University)
  • Hyman Bass (details) Spring 2003 (U. of Michigan)
  • Ann E.Watkins (details) Fall, 2002 (CSU Northridge)
  • Ed Burger (details) Spring, 2002 (Williams  College)
  • Michael E. Moody (details) Fall, 2001 (Harvey Mudd College)
  • Richard Tapia (details) Spring, 2001 (Rice University)
  • Noam D. Elkies (details) Fall, 2000 (Harvard University)
  • Victor Katz (details) Spring, 2000 (University of the District of Columbia)
  • Arthur Benjamin (details) Fall, 1999 (Harvey Mudd College)
  • Thomas Banchoff (details) Spring, 1999 (Brown University)
  • Frank Giordano (details) Fall, 1998 (COMAP)
  • Robert L. Devaney (details) Spring, 1998 (Boston University)
  • Sherman Stein (details) Fall, 1997 (UC Davis)
  • Ron Graham (details) Spring, 1997
  • David Hoffman (details) Fall, 1996 (MSRI, Berkeley)
  • Doris Schattschneider (details) Spring, 1996 (Moravian College)
  • Herbert Keller (details) Fall, 1995 (Cal. Inst. of Technology)
  • Keith J. Devlin Spring, 1995 (Saint Mary's College)
  • Deb Hughes Hallett (Harvard) and Jerry Uhl  (U of Ill.) Fall, 1994
  • Gil Strang Spring, 1994(MIT)
  • Carlos Castillo-Chavez Fall, 1993 (Cornell)
  • Judith Grabiner (details) Spring, 1993 (Pitzer College).
  • Judith Tanur (details) Fall, 1992 (SUNY, Stony Brook)
  • Margaret Cozzins Spring, 1992 (Northeastern U.)
  • Saunders MacLane Fall, 1991 (Univ. of Chicago)
  • Branko Grunbaum Spring, 1991 (Univ. of Washington)
  • Robert Moses Fall, 1990
  • George Dantzig Spring, 1990 (Stanford Univ.) 
  • Reuben Hersh Fall, 1989 (Univ. of NM)
  • Ralph Boas Spring, 1989 (Northwestern Univ.)
  • Leon Henkin Fall, 1988 (U.C., Berk.)
  • Mary Ellen Rudin Spring, 1988(Univ. of Wisconsin)
  • Constance Reid Fall, 1987
  • Kenneth Arrow Spring, 1987 (Stanford Univ.)
  • Peter Hilton Fall, 1986 (SUNY, Binghamton)
  • Gerard Debreu Spring, 1986 (U.C.,Berk.)
  • Raymond Smullyan Fall, 1985 (Ind. U.)
  • Paul Halmos Spring, 1985 (Univ.of Santa Clara)
  • Richard Hamming Winter, 1985 (Naval Postgrad.)
  • Victor Klee Spring, 1984 (Univ. of Washington)
  • Ivan Niven Fall, 1983 (Univ. of Oregon)
  • Ronald Graham Spring, 1983 (Bell Labs)