Pictured here with my boyfriend Josh at the top of Mt. Sherman.
erica shannon
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado at Boulder
Office: Math 360; office hours W 2-3pm, F noon-1pm
erica.shannon@colorado.edu
Teaching
- Math 1300-402, second half, Summer 2012
- Math 2300-004, Spring 2012
- Math 1300-004, Fall 2011
- Math 1300-401, first half, Summer 2011
- Math 1300-003, Spring 2011
Research
- In April 2012 I gave a talk in the Algebraic Lie Theory seminar here at CU about Partition Algebras and the Symmetric Group. You can view the beamer slides here.
- I wrote my senior thesis at Reed on the connections between dimer covers and sandpile groups. My thesis advisor was David Perkinson; here's his sandpile page. I also gave a talk on this topic in the Slow Pitch colloquium at CU in November 2011.
- At the Willamette Valley Consortium REU-RET 2009, I worked with Jason Xu (University of Arizona) on solving variations on the combinatorial game Odd Wins. Our advisor was Hans Nordstrom. I gave a short talk about our work with Odd Wins in the Reed Mathematics colloquium in Spring 2010.
Education
- Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Reed College, May 2010
Other
- I encourage any undergraduate women in math to consider applying to Carleton's SMP program. I went in 2008 and I learned so much. It's aimed at women who have completed Linear Algebra and are finishing their freshman or sophomore years.
- My page of math study skills & strategies.
- A proof of Urysohn's Lemma for locally compact Hausdorff spaces.