Carolina Benedetti

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Carolina Benedetti Velasquez is a Colombian mathematician and educator. She researches combinatorial objects, algebraic structures and geometry. She is co-Executive Director of Mathematical Circles Colombia.

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Biography

Benedetti studied her bachelors degree at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia. She studied her MSc in Mathematics at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. She was awarded a PhD by the York University in Toronto, Canada in 2013. [1] Her thesis was titled "Combinatorial Hopf algebras and supercharacters."

Benedetti researches combinatorial objects, algebraic structures, geometry and Ehrhart theory. [2] [3] [4] [5] She has also contributed to the study of the theory of supercharacters. [1]

Benedetti has worked as a Visiting Associate Professor at Michigan State University in the United States and has been employed as an Assistant Professor at the Universidad de los Andes since 2023. [6] [7] She is a member of Comunidad Colombiana de Combinatoria and the Comisión de Equidad y Género (Gender and Equity Commission), [1] and is co-Executive Director of Mathematical Circles Colombia. [8]

Personal life

Benedetti is learning to play pacific music. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Carolina Benedetti". Lathisms. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
  2. Benedetti, Carolina; González d'León, Rafael; Hanusa, Christopher; Harris, Pamela; Khare, Apoorva; Morales, Alejandro; Yip, Martha (2019). "A combinatorial model for computing volumes of flow polytopes". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 372 (5): 3369–3404. arXiv: 1801.07684 . doi:10.1090/tran/7743.
  3. Benedetti, Carolina; Hallam, Joshua; Machacek, John (2016). "Combinatorial Hopf Algebras of Simplicial Complexes". SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. 30 (3): 1737–1757. arXiv: 1505.04458 . doi:10.1137/15M1038281. ISSN   0895-4801.
  4. Benedetti, Carolina; Chavez, Anastasia; Tamayo, Daniel (2019). "Quotients of uniform positroids". arXiv: 1912.06873 [math.CO].
  5. AlCoVE - Algebraic Combinatorics Virtual Expedition (26 June 2020). Carolina Benedetti, Quotients of positroids and lattice path matroids, AlCoVE 2020 . Retrieved 16 July 2025 via YouTube.
  6. 1 2 Quiceno, Juan Diego (26 March 2023). "La ecuación del amor por las matemáticas". El Espectador (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 July 2025.
  7. Meet a Mathematician (9 October 2023). MEET a Mathematician! - Carolina Benedetti Velasquez . Retrieved 16 July 2025 via YouTube.
  8. Martínez, Eddy Josefina Pariguan (2020). "Mujeres Matemáticas en Colombia". Sofía Pinzón Universidad Industrial de Santander (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 July 2025.