I am a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I organize both the Graduate Dynamics Seminar and Gender Minorities in Math at Wisconsin (GMMAW).
I worked towards a master's degree at The City College of New York where my research mentor was Benjamin Steinberg. My bachelor's degree is in computer science and philosophy from Swarthmore College. I worked as a backend software engineer (mostly using Rust) for several years before going back to school to pursue math.
Office: Van Vleck 422
Email: gbrown29 [at] wisc [dot] edu
Research
I am currently thinking about translation surfaces.- Ancestral Haplotype Reconstruction in Endogamous Populations using Identity-By-Descent (with Finke, Korakos, et al). Plos Computational Biology (2021)
doi:10.1101/2020.01.15.908459
Teaching
University of Wisconsin-Madison- Fall 2023: Math 222 Calculus 2 - T.A.
- Spring 2024: Math 221 Calculus 1 - T.A.
- Fall 2024: Math 211 A survey of calculus - T.A.
- Tutor (CCAPP Tutoring Center), pre-calc through differential equations.
- Private Tutor - Math, English
Travel
- May 3-6 2024: Riverside GGT Workshop, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
- Jul 29-Aug 9 2024: NUET Summer School and Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Talks and Posters
Group Determinants and the Origin of Representation Theory - Graduate Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar, UW Madison, April 2024
When Dedekind and Frobenius first discovered representation theory, they were trying to factor something called the group determinant. The goal of this talk is to introduce the group determinant while describing the questions that motivated representation theory. This historical journey will include some Galois theory, lots of character theory, and end with the modern representation theory perspective on the group determinant.