Sarah-Marie Belcastro

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Sarah-Marie Belcastro (aka 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 herself exclusively uses the form "sarah-marie belcastro". [6] [1]

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Biography

Belcastro was born in San Diego, CA in 1970, and grew up mostly in Andover, MA, and in Dubuque, IA. [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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "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. 1 2 AoPS Online Art of Problem Solving School
  3. 1 2 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:
  12. ↑ Reviews of Figuring Fibers:
  13. ↑ Reviews of Crafting by Concepts:
  14. ↑ Reviews of Making Mathematics with Needlework:
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