2024

Anna Zarkh received her Mathematics Education Ph.D. in May 2024 from the University of California, Berkeley. She holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Mathematics from Bar Ilan University in Israel. Anna’s research focuses on university mathematics education, specializing in socio-cultural theories, discourse analysis, and micro-ethnographic methods. She is interested in the historical development and effects of communication practices in contemporary academic mathematics.

Isaac Neal received his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute at NYU in 2024. He studies partial differential equations with a focus on fluid dynamics. In particular, his research has delved into the formation of shocks in compressible fluids.
 

Yoon Jae "Nick" Nho is a Krener Assistant Professor, mentored by Professor Roger Casals. His research is in symplectic geometry and topology, and he is interested in geometric structures that are related to physics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in August 2024, under the supervision of Professor Ailsa Keating. 

He is from South Korea, and his hobbies include reading books, watching films, and listening to music.

Chenchen Zhao completed her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in May 2024, advised by Greta Panova. Her research interests lie in the area of Enumerative and Algebraic Combinatorics. Her dissertation explored the positivity of Kronecker coefficients and the Newton polytope of the Kronecker product of Schur polynomials.