Piper Harron
The Liberated Mathematician
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The Liberated Mathematician
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“If at first you don’t succeed, throw the rules out and try again.”
Educational Experiences
| 1998 – 2002 | New York University, BA cum laude in Romance Languages survived external and internalized misogyny survived external and internalized racism |
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| 2003 – 2009 | Princeton University, MA in Mathematics survived external and internalized misogyny survived external and internalized racism survived pervasive and internalized cult of genius mythology |
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| 2009 – 2013 | Real Life, Single Lady of Arts in Oppression grew human in own body gave birth to new human with own body created milk with own body to sustain new human survived pregnancy, labor, and infant care related misogyny |
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| 2013 – 2015 | Real Life, Mistress of Arts in Self-Liberation grew, birthed, and created milk for new human with own body survived thesis writing while being a stay-at-home parent |
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| 2015 – 2016 | Princeton University, PhD in Mathematics Advisor: Manjul Bhargava |
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Interests Algebraic number theory, arithmetic statistics, teaching, writing, social justice
Appointments
| 08/2020 – 07/2023 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto |
| 08/2016 – 07/2020 | Temporary Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| 09/2009 – 12/2010 | Lecturer, Northeastern University |
Writing
- The equidistribution of lattice shapes of rings of integers in cubic, quartic, and quintic number fields, with Manjul Bhargava, to appear in Compositio Mathematica
- Thesis: The Equidistribution of Lattice Shapes of Rings of Integers of Cubic, Quartic,
and Quintic Number Fields: An Artist’s Rendering, January 2016 - Blog: Reluctant Maybe Blog
- Guest post at Mathbabe: Piper Harron discusses her artistic and wonderful math Ph.D. thesis, December 2015
Awards and Recognition
- PhD thesis received widespread media coverage: including Radiolab, Scientific American blog, and AMS blog’s “Best of 2015”
- Beatrice Yormark Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, May 2016
- First Year Fellowship, Princeton University, 2003–2004
Denied Awards and Recognition
- Surviving village-less parenthood is its own reward, 2011–
- Surviving patriarchy is its own reward, 1980–
- Surviving white supremacy is its own reward, 1980–
Invited Research Seminars and Conferences
| Mar 2016 | Duke University Number Theory Seminar |
| May 2016 | Program for Women and Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton |
| May 2016 | Stanford University Number Theory Seminar |
| Jul 2016 | Latin American Congress of Mathematicians |
| Nov 2016 | Fields Medal Symposium, Fields Institute |
Outreach: Speaking
| Mar 2016 | Invited speaker at Duke University Baldwin Scholars Seminar |
| May 2016 | Visit with women in mathematics organization (Noetherian Ring) at UC Berkeley |
| Jun 2016 | Invited speaker at EDGE Summer Session, Purdue University |
Selected Press
- Scientific American Blog, “Contrasts in Number Theory” by Evelyn Lamb, December 2015
- AMS Blog, “The Best and Worst of Math in 2015” by Anna Haensch, December 2015
- Radiolab, taped interview for upcoming episode
Teaching Experience
| Fall 2009 — Fall 2010 | Math 1342: Calculus II (five sections over three semesters) Dept. of Mathematics, Northeastern University |
| Spring 2009 & Fall 2006 | Mat 104: Calculus II (two sections in two semesters) Dept. of Mathematics, Princeton University |