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Education
2023-2025
  • MA-FAS from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI in Mathematics
2018-2022
  • B.Sc. from Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY in Mathematics and Linguistics
  • GPA: 3.69/4.00
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Research Interests
Mathematics
  • Algebraic Geometry
  • Discrete Mathematics
Linguistics
  • Cross-linguistic Semantics
  • Monotonicity of syntactic phenomena
Logic
  • Proof Theory, especially Natural Deduction systems
  • Eight-valued Lattice Logic inspired by the Saptabhangivada of Jainism
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Work Experience
Spring 2022
Department Intern, Dept. of Linguistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
  • Read all lecture notes for Mathematical Methods for Linguistics, including new ones
  • Provided detailed feedback on the lecture notes; the feedback should discuss content as well as presentation
  • Wrote up detailed solutions (including discussion of incorrect solutions) for hand-crafted exercises in the lecture notes
Summer 2021
Academic Affiliate, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research Mathematics (ICERM), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
  • Conducted research at ICERM offices for 8 weeks on periodic trajectories of polygonal billiards dynamics
  • Worked with undergraduates, TAs, and faculty mentors to prove results making connections between existing theorems and approaches
  • Used SageMath (a package for Python) to test hypotheses and run simulations
Spring 2021
Lecturer's Assistant, Dept. of Mathematics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
  • Responded promptly to students' questions in virtual calculus class
  • Participated in classroom management
Winter 2020
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
2019-2022
Student Software Coder, Teaching and Learning Lab, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Stony Brook, New York
  • Collaborated with faculty of Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Philosophy to produce unique and specialized educational software
  • Designed and implemented interactive theorem prover to improve upon existing programs (Logic 2010, Logic 2000) to teach Łukasieviczian propositional logic
  • Improved upon the Virtual Reality game Tarski's Truth Machine, making it accessible from desktop and a wide range of VR devices
  • Integrated the skills (graphics, video editing) of other members of the lab to improve user interfaces of software tools
2017-2018
Lead Conference Organizer, Sonya Kovalevskaya Day of Math for Girls, Ambler, Pennsylvania
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Conferences with Participation
Summer 2022
Mei Rose Connor* and Paul St. Denis**, (Drag and) Drop It Like It's Hot: Comparison of Educational Software for Teaching Natural Deduction and Axiomatic Derivation, MathFest 2022, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Presented a poster highlighting a product, DragLogic, developed in the Student Software Coder position
  • Compared and contrasted features and interface of DragLogic with competing products including Logic 2010, ∃Logic, and QED.
Winter 2022
Mei Rose Connor*, P. Michael Kielstra, Zachary Steinberg, Chenyang Sun Hyperbolic Staircases: Periodic Paths on 2g+1-gons, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, Washington
  • Presented poster on work done at ICERM with 3 undergraduate collaborators
Spring 2020
Mei Rose Connor, JainaSyadLogic, Gathering 4 Gardner 14, Atlanta, Georgia: Cancelled due to COVID
  • Invited to give a 6-minute lecture on work in seven-valued logic
  • Prepared a unique giveaway for all conference participants related to work in logic and teaching logic
Fall 2019
Mei Rose Connor, Opening Statement, Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Heidelberg, Germany. Video here
  • Produced a 1-minute long Opening Statement shown to all participants and laureates at Opening Ceremonies
  • Engaged daily with mathematics and computer science laureates as well as young researchers from around the world
  • Attended professional development Q&A led by Fields medallist Efim Zelmanov
* indicates presenting author
** indicates supervisor
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Extracurricular Activities
Spring 2021-Spring 2022
President of Stony Brook University Math Club, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
  • Planned and organized events ranging from faculty and student lectures to statistics-themed craft night
  • Held meeting of executive board every week during which previous week's and future events are discussed
  • Designed posters and mailings sent to a 400+ person mailing list to raise awareness and attendance at events
Spring 2021
Math With Words: An Introduction to Formal Semantics, Stony Brook University Math Club, Virtual. Video here
  • Introduced the idea of analyzing the meaning of sentences based on the meaning of constituent parts (compositionality)
  • Stepped through the process of deriving truth conditions for a sentence from lexical, phrasal, and substitution rules applied to it
  • Part of a series of Quarantined Undergraduate End-of-Semester Talks (QUEST) with various speakers (Spring Semester series)
  • Presented in under 20 minutes, as is the constraint for QUEST
Winter 2020
Bombelli and the History of Complex Numbers, Stony Brook University Math Club, Virtual. Video here
  • Discussed the history of complex numbers, building from the ideas of Diophantos and Mahavira to the problem of the solutions of cubics in the XVI century
  • Part of QUEST (Fall Semester series) and presented in under 20 minutes
Spring 2020
From True and False to JSL: An Adventure in Logic, Stony Brook University Math Club, Virtual. Video here
  • Introduced the ideas of the propositional logic connectives, their syntax, and their semantics in terms of truth tables
  • Discussed modal logic operators, box and diamond, as well as modal axioms
  • Showed history, motivation, and syntax of JainaSyadLogic, the presenter's own 7-valued modal logic system
Winter 2019
Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland
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Computer Skills
Proficient
LaTeX 2ε, Desmos Graphing Calculator, LEGO Mindstorms EV3, JavaScript/jQuery, HTML/CSS, Python 3
Familiar with
Maple, Sage/CoCalc, Mathematica
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Publications
2021
Mei Rose Connor, Diana Davis, Paige Helms, Samuel Lelièvre, Michael Kielstra, Zachary Steinberg, and Chenyang Sun. Hyperbolic staircases: Periodic paths on 2g + 1-gons. Preprint.