Beth Skubak
Ph.D. graduate student, teaching assistant,
M.A., Mathematics, Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin at Madison
B.S., Mathematics, Bucknell University, 2009

office: 518 Van Vleck
email: skubak at math.wisc.edu
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Teaching
MATH 132, Problem Solving: Algebra, Probability, & Statistics, Sec 3 (current, Spring 2012)

Summer Collegiate Experience (SCE) Math 198 (Summer 2011)
MATH 132, for prospective elementary school teachers, Sec 1 (Spring 2011), Sec 4 (Fall 2011)
Calc I (MATH 221), Sec 390, 392 (Fall 2010)
Calc II (MATH 222), Sec 361, 364 (Fall 2009)
During the Spring and Summer of 2010, I was supported by a VIGRE Fellowship (NSF).

Research
I'm currently working on computational methods for stochastic models, in particular from the biosciences, with David Anderson; past work has involved functional analysis, graph theory, and theoretical computer science.

Polynomials, ellipses, and matrices: two questions, one answer; with Pam Gorkin (Math. Monthly, June 2011)
Blaschke ellipses, Steiner inellipses, and polynomials (Undergraduate thesis, Bucknell University)
A new puzzle for iterated complete graphs of any dimension (REU, Oregon State University)
other work

Links
UW Math

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