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FACULTY
The mathematics faculty are active scholars and teachers. Their research and teaching interests include: logic; mathematical modelling; field independence/dependence; knot theory; mathematics education; lattice theory; topology; graph theory; and group theory.
Richard Bedient, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics
(rbedient@hamilton.edu) Bedient earned his doctorate from the University of Michigan. His research and teaching interests are low dimensional topology, knot theory, fractal geometry and chaos theory.
Debra Boutin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics
(dboutin@hamilton.edu) Boutin came to Hamilton in 1999. She earned her undergraduate degree from Smith College in 1991 and her Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University in 1998. Her research interests include graph theory, geometric graph theory and group theory. In particular, she works with graphs, their drawings, and their symmetry groups. Her teaching interests include graph theory, abstract algebra, and geometry. More about Debra Boutin ...
Sally Cockburn, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics
(scockbur@hamilton.edu) Cockburn, who joined the Hamilton faculty in 1991, earned her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her doctoral thesis was, "The y-Filtration on Representation Rings of p-Groups." Her research focuses on combinatorial optimization and graph theory.
Zach Dietz, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
(zdietz@hamilton.edu) Zach Dietz, assistant professor of mathematics, attended Grinnell College as an undergraduate, and Iowa State University as a graduate student in statistics. He then spent three years at Tulane University as a Vertical Integration of Research and Education (VIGRE) postdoctoral fellow. Dietz’s research interests include mixing, ergodicity, large deviations and law-of-large number in non-stationary regimes.
Andrew Dykstra, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Mathematics
(adykstra@hamilton.edu) Andrew Dykstra, assistant professor of mathematics, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College. Before joining the Hamilton faculty, he spent two years as the Yates Postdoctoral Fellow at Colorado State University. Dykstra's research is in dynamical systems. He is especially interested in symbolic dynamics and ergodic theory.
Rob Kantrowitz, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics
(rkantrow@hamilton.edu) Kantrowitz, a 1982 graduate of Hamilton College, earned a master's and doctorate from Syracuse University. He returned to join the Hamilton faculty in 1990. His research is in analysis, with particular focus on Banach algebras, automatic continuity, and operator theory, and his teaching interests include analysis, linear algebra, and calculus.
Kantrowitz's paper "Yet Another Proof of Minkowski's Inequality," co-authored with Michael M. Neumann, appeared in The American Mathematical Monthly in May 2008, and provides a new proof of a celebrated, century-old inequality attributable to the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909). His most recent article"Optimal angles for launching projectiles: Lagrange vs. CAS," appears in the Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly.
Tim Kelly, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Mathematics
(tkelly@hamilton.edu) Kelly came to Hamilton in 1985 from the University of New Hampshire, where he also earned his Ph.D. in mathematical education. His teaching interests are probability, statistics, stochastic processes, and pre-calculus, and his research interests include math education, probabilistic and statistical reasoning.
Larry Knop, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics
(lknop@hamilton.edu) Knop earned his Ph.D. from the University of Utah. Areas of interest are mathematical modeling and improper integrals, and differential equations.
Michelle LeMasurier, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics
(mlemasur@hamilton.edu) Michelle LeMasurier received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and joined the Hamilton faculty in 2001. Her areas of interest include dynamical systems and topological dynamics.
Robert Redfield, Ph.D., Samuel F. Pratt Professor of Mathematics
(rredfiel@hamilton.edu) Redfield earned his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada. His areas of interests are lattice-ordered fields, rings and groups, vector lattices, and ordered topolgical spaces. His recent work has focused on functions on lattice-ordered rings and vector lattices. In March 2004, Redfield spoke on "Positive Derivations on archimedean lattice-ordered rings" at the Conference on Lattice-Ordered Groups and f-Rings at the University of Florida. In July 2004, he spoke on "Order bases in lattice-ordered algebraic structures" at the University of Mississippi and on "Wilson bases" at the University of Houston - Clear Lake. His latest paper, "Fields of quotients of lattice-ordered domains," written with Jingjing Ma, will be appearing soon in Algebra Universalis.
A far cry from the stereotype of numbers-crunching drudgery, mathematics is a highly creative discipline that balances logic and intuition, analysis and imagination. Mathematics majors at Hamilton make connections across many fields and subjects, applying the sophisticated tools of math to a spectrum of topics. The sheer range of mathematical applications is suggested by the subjects of a few recent student papers: cheating at cards, population growth, traffic flow, employment discrimination, air traffic control and sexuality.
A Passion for the Subject
Practicality aside, the majority of Hamilton students who take mathematics do so because they find it interesting in its own right rather than because they need it to achieve some other goal. About 35 to 40 students major in math each year, and the group is divided equally among men and women.
Valuable Background
Mathematics is a highly practical discipline, valuable in other courses and professions. Employers in financial, digital and other technical fields put math skills at or near the top of their list of qualities they look for in newcomers. Such majors as economics, computer science, psychology and the hard sciences require math skills as well, making mathematics an appealing minor or double major.
Endless Possibilities
Hamilton graduates in mathematics go on to careers in banking and finance, communication, education, insurance, government and, of course, computer systems and programming. Others enter graduate programs in medicine, law, business, mathematics, applied mathematics statistics, computer science, economics and engineering.
A far cry from the stereotype of numbers-crunching drudgery, mathematics is a highly creative discipline that balances logic and intuition, analysis and imagination. Mathematics majors at Hamilton make connections across many fields and subjects, applying the sophisticated tools of math to a spectrum of topics. The sheer range of mathematical applications is suggested by the subjects of a few recent student papers: cheating at cards, population growth, traffic flow, employment discrimination, air traffic control and sexuality.
A Passion for the Subject
Practicality aside, the majority of Hamilton students who take mathematics do so because they find it interesting in its own right rather than because they need it to achieve some other goal. About 35 to 40 students major in math each year, and the group is divided equally among men and women.
Valuable Background
Mathematics is a highly practical discipline, valuable in other courses and professions. Employers in financial, digital and other technical fields put math skills at or near the top of their list of qualities they look for in newcomers. Such majors as economics, computer science, psychology and the hard sciences require math skills as well, making mathematics an appealing minor or double major.
Endless Possibilities
Hamilton graduates in mathematics go on to careers in banking and finance, communication, education, insurance, government and, of course, computer systems and programming. Others enter graduate programs in medicine, law, business, mathematics, applied mathematics statistics, computer science, economics and engineering.
A far cry from the stereotype of numbers-crunching drudgery, mathematics is a highly creative discipline that balances logic and intuition, analysis and imagination. Mathematics majors at Hamilton make connections across many fields and subjects, applying the sophisticated tools of math to a spectrum of topics. The sheer range of mathematical applications is suggested by the subjects of a few recent student papers: cheating at cards, population growth, traffic flow, employment discrimination, air traffic control and sexuality.
A Passion for the Subject
Practicality aside, the majority of Hamilton students who take mathematics do so because they find it interesting in its own right rather than because they need it to achieve some other goal. About 35 to 40 students major in math each year, and the group is divided equally among men and women.
Valuable Background
Mathematics is a highly practical discipline, valuable in other courses and professions. Employers in financial, digital and other technical fields put math skills at or near the top of their list of qualities they look for in newcomers. Such majors as economics, computer science, psychology and the hard sciences require math skills as well, making mathematics an appealing minor or double major.
Endless Possibilities
Hamilton graduates in mathematics go on to careers in banking and finance, communication, education, insurance, government and, of course, computer systems and programming. Others enter graduate programs in medicine, law, business, mathematics, applied mathematics statistics, computer science, economics and engineering.
A far cry from the stereotype of numbers-crunching drudgery, mathematics is a highly creative discipline that balances logic and intuition, analysis and imagination. Mathematics majors at Hamilton make connections across many fields and subjects, applying the sophisticated tools of math to a spectrum of topics. The sheer range of mathematical applications is suggested by the subjects of a few recent student papers: cheating at cards, population growth, traffic flow, employment discrimination, air traffic control and sexuality.
A Passion for the Subject
Practicality aside, the majority of Hamilton students who take mathematics do so because they find it interesting in its own right rather than because they need it to achieve some other goal. About 35 to 40 students major in math each year, and the group is divided equally among men and women.
Valuable Background
Mathematics is a highly practical discipline, valuable in other courses and professions. Employers in financial, digital and other technical fields put math skills at or near the top of their list of qualities they look for in newcomers. Such majors as economics, computer science, psychology and the hard sciences require math skills as well, making mathematics an appealing minor or double major.
Endless Possibilities
Hamilton graduates in mathematics go on to careers in banking and finance, communication, education, insurance, government and, of course, computer systems and programming. Others enter graduate programs in medicine, law, business, mathematics, applied mathematics statistics, computer science, economics and engineering.
After Hamilton
Hamilton graduates who majored in Mathematics are pursuing careers in a variety of fields, including:
Director, Global Climate Observing System, World Meteorological Organization
Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar, Yale University
Senior Scientist, GlaxoSmithKline
Computer Engineer, National Institutes of Health
Actuarial Senior Analyst, CIGNA Corp.
High School Math Teacher, Choate Rosemary Hall
Manager of Finance, General Electric Company/GE Commercial Finance
Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
Vice President and Technology Fellow, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Engineer, Xerox Corp.
President/Chairman, United Nations Association of U.S.A.
Senior Vice President, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization
Bedient earned his doctorate from the University of Michigan. His research and teaching interests are low dimensional topology, knot theory, fractal geometry and chaos theory.
Boutin came to Hamilton in 1999. She earned her undergraduate degree from Smith College in 1991 and her Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University in 1998. Her research interests include graph theory, geometric graph theory and group theory. In particular, she works with graphs, their drawings, and their symmetry groups. Her teaching interests include graph theory, abstract algebra, and geometry. More about Debra Boutin ...
Cockburn, who joined the Hamilton faculty in 1991, earned her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her doctoral thesis was, "The y-Filtration on Representation Rings of p-Groups." Her research focuses on combinatorial optimization and graph theory.
Zach Dietz, assistant professor of mathematics, attended Grinnell College as an undergraduate, and Iowa State University as a graduate student in statistics. He then spent three years at Tulane University as a Vertical Integration of Research and Education (VIGRE) postdoctoral fellow. Dietz’s research interests include mixing, ergodicity, large deviations and law-of-large number in non-stationary regimes.
Andrew Dykstra, assistant professor of mathematics, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College. Before joining the Hamilton faculty, he spent two years as the Yates Postdoctoral Fellow at Colorado State University. Dykstra's research is in dynamical systems. He is especially interested in symbolic dynamics and ergodic theory. 
Kantrowitz, a 1982 graduate of Hamilton College, earned a master's and doctorate from Syracuse University. He returned to join the Hamilton faculty in 1990. His research is in analysis, with particular focus on Banach algebras, automatic continuity, and operator theory, and his teaching interests include analysis, linear algebra, and calculus.
Kelly came to Hamilton in 1985 from the University of New Hampshire, where he also earned his Ph.D. in mathematical education. His teaching interests are probability, statistics, stochastic processes, and pre-calculus, and his research interests include math education, probabilistic and statistical reasoning.
Knop earned his Ph.D. from the University of Utah. Areas of interest are mathematical modeling and improper integrals, and differential equations.
Michelle LeMasurier received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and joined the Hamilton faculty in 2001. Her areas of interest include dynamical systems and topological dynamics.
Redfield earned his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada. His areas of interests are lattice-ordered fields, rings and groups, vector lattices, and ordered topolgical spaces. His recent work has focused on functions on lattice-ordered rings and vector lattices. In March 2004, Redfield spoke on "Positive Derivations on archimedean lattice-ordered rings" at the Conference on Lattice-Ordered Groups and f-Rings at the University of Florida. In July 2004, he spoke on "Order bases in lattice-ordered algebraic structures" at the University of Mississippi and on "Wilson bases" at the University of Houston - Clear Lake. His latest paper, "Fields of quotients of lattice-ordered domains," written with Jingjing Ma, will be appearing soon in Algebra Universalis.
