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 cv (1/12) 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) Using Blaschke products and ellipses to study polynomials with roots on the circle, graduate analysis seminar, UW Madison 10/09 Steiner Inellipses in the Complex Unit Circle, poster, Joint Math. Meetings 1/09 Blaschke Ellipses, Steiner Inellipses, and Polynomials, Undergraduate thesis, Bucknell University 4/09 A New Puzzle for Iterated Complete Graphs of any dimension, REU, Oregon State University, 8/08 Other expository articles for the curious: Subexponential locally-decodable codes Matijasevic's Theorem Inverse Galois problem back