sarah-marie belcastro

sarah-marie belcastro[1] (born 1970) is an American mathematician and book author. She is an instructor at the Art of Problem Solving Online School[2] and is the director of MathILy,[3] a residential math summer program hosted at Bryn Mawr. Although her doctoral research was in algebraic geometry, she has also worked extensively in topological graph theory.[4] She is known for and has written extensively about mathematical knitting, and has co-edited three books on fiber mathematics.[5] She exclusively uses the form "sarah-marie belcastro".[6][1]

Biography

Belcastro was born in San Diego, California, in 1970, and grew up mostly in Andover, Massachusetts, and in Dubuque, Iowa.[7] She earned a B.S. (1991) in Mathematics and Astronomy from Haverford College, an M.S. (1993) from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Ph.D. (1997) there for a thesis on “Picard Lattices of Families of K3 Surfaces” done with Igor Dolgachev.[8]

Since 2012, she has also been an instructor at the Art of Problem Solving Online School.[2] Since 2013, she has been the director of Bryn Mawr College's residential summer program MathILy (serious Mathematics Infused with Levity).[3] She is also a guest faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College.

She was Associate Editor for The College Mathematics Journal (2003–2019). She has also lectured frequently at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst since 2012.[9][10]

Selected publications

Books

  • Discrete Mathematics with Ducks (AK Peters, 2012; 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-315-16767-1).[11]
  • Figuring Fibers, edited by belcastro and Carolyn Yackel, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematics Society, 2018.[12]
  • Crafting by Concepts: fiber arts and mathematics, edited by belcastro and Yackel. AK Peters, 2011.[13]
  • Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects, edited by belcastro and Yackel. Wellesley, Mass.: AK Peters, 2007.[14]

Journal papers

References

  1. ^ a b "Mathematics prize goes to University of Chicago's Hannah Alpert". UChicago News. November 18, 2009. Retrieved 2023-11-03. advisers include sarah-marie belcastro (lowercase is the proper spelling of her name)
  2. ^ a b AoPS Online Art of Problem Solving School
  3. ^ a b MathILy Bryn Mawr College
  4. ^ MathILy people MathILy.org
  5. ^ Adventures in Mathematical Knitting by Sarah-Marie Belcastro, American Scientist, 2021
  6. ^ "From the colleges" (PDF). Newsletter of the Northeastern Section of the MAA. Vol. 23, no. 2. Fall 2001. pp. 16–18. sarah-marie belcastro (she prefers the lower case spelling of her name) joined the Bowdoin Math Department this fall as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
  7. ^ dr. sarah-marie belcastro toroidalsnark.net
  8. ^ Sarah-Marie Belcastro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  9. ^ Curriculum Vitae September 2021
  10. ^ Faculty News Briefs University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2012
  11. ^ Reviews of Discrete Mathematics with Ducks:
    • Ashbacher, Charles (August 2012). "Review". MAA Reviews.
    • Székely, László A. "Belcastro, Sarah-Marie: Discrete mathematics with ducks. (English)". zbMATH. Zbl 1250.05001.
  12. ^ Reviews of Figuring Fibers:
  13. ^ Reviews of Crafting by Concepts:
  14. ^ Reviews of Making Mathematics with Needlework:
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