Sarah-marie belcastro

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 College. 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 exclusively uses the form "sarah-marie belcastro". ^{[6] [1]}

Biography

Belcastro was born in San Diego, California, in 1970, and grew up mostly in Andover, Massachusetts, and in Dubuque, Iowa. ^[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]}

Selected publications

Books

• Discrete Mathematics with Ducks (AK Peters, 2012; 2nd ed., CRC Press, 2019, ISBN   978-1-315-16767-1). ^[11]
• Figuring Fibers, edited by belcastro and Carolyn Yackel, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematics Society, 2018. ^[12]
• Crafting by Concepts: fiber arts and mathematics, edited by belcastro and Yackel. AK Peters, 2011. ^[13]
• Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects , edited by belcastro and Yackel. Wellesley, Mass.: AK Peters, 2007. ^[14]

Journal papers

• belcastro, sarah-marie (2021). "Color-induced subgraphs dual to Hamilton cycles of embedded cubic graphs" (PDF). Australasian Journal of Combinatorics . 81: 319–333. MR   4312576.
• belcastro, sarah-marie (2016). "Small snarks and 6-chromatic triangulations on the Klein bottle" (PDF). Australasian Journal of Combinatorics . 65: 232–250. MR   3509660.
• belcastro, sarah-marie; Haas, Ruth (2015). "Triangle-free uniquely 3-edge colorable cubic graphs". Contributions to Discrete Mathematics. 10 (2): 39–44. arXiv: 1508.06934 . doi: 10.11575/cdm.v10i2.62320 . MR   3499076.
• Albertson, Michael O.; Alpert, Hannah; belcastro, sarah-marie; Haas, Ruth (2010). "Grünbaum colorings of toroidal triangulations". Journal of Graph Theory . 63 (1): 68–81. arXiv: 0805.0394 . doi:10.1002/jgt.20406. MR   2590325. S2CID   7177893.
• belcastro, sarah-marie (2009). "Every topological surface can be knit: a proof". Journal of Mathematics and the Arts . 3 (2): 67–83. doi:10.1080/17513470902896561. MR   2553752. S2CID   120714012.
• belcastro, sarah-marie; Kaminski, Jackie (2007). "Families of dot-product snarks on orientable surfaces of low genus". Graphs and Combinatorics . 23 (3): 229–240. doi:10.1007/s00373-007-0729-9. MR   2320577. S2CID   31347628.
• belcastro, sarah-marie; Hull, Thomas C. (2002). "Modelling the folding of paper into three dimensions using affine transformations". Linear Algebra and Its Applications . 348 (1–3): 273–282. doi: 10.1016/S0024-3795(01)00608-5 . MR   1902132.

References

1. "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. AoPS Online Art of Problem Solving School
3. 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:
    • Ashbacher, Charles (August 2012). "Review". MAA Reviews.
    • Székely, László A. "Belcastro, Sarah-Marie: Discrete mathematics with ducks. (English)". zbMATH. Zbl   1250.05001.
12. Reviews of Figuring Fibers:
    • Collins, Julia (July 2020). "Review" (PDF). London Mathematical Society Newsletter (489): 39–40. Zbl   06992051.
    • Torrence, Eve (October 2019). "Book Review: Figuring fibers, edited by Carolyn Yackel and sarah-marie belcastro, Providence, R.I., American Mathematical Society, 2018, 232 pp., US $40.00". Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 14 (3): 283–284. doi:10.1080/17513472.2019.1666459. S2CID   209985329.
    • West, Mckenzie (August 2019). "Review". MAA Reviews.
    • Wilmer, Elizabeth (September 2020). "Or/And: A Review of Figuring Fibers" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 67 (8): 1158–1161. doi:10.1090/noti2125. S2CID   225196886.
13. Reviews of Crafting by Concepts:
    • Babenko, Yuliya (March 2012). "Book Reviews: Crafting by concepts: fiber arts and mathematics, edited by sarah-marie belcastro and Carolyn Yackel". Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 6 (1): 53–54. doi:10.1080/17513472.2011.642264. S2CID   123015866.
    • Fortune, Mary (July 2013). "Reviews - Crafting by concepts, by Sarah-Marie Belcastro and Carolyn Yackel. Pp. 248. £25.99(hbk) 2011 ISBN: 978-1-56881-435-3 (A. K. Peters)". The Mathematical Gazette. 97 (539): 382–383. doi:10.1017/S0025557200006422. JSTOR   24496858. S2CID   233362317.
    • Habermann, Katharina (December 2011). "Sarah-Marie Belcastro und Carolyn Yackel: Crafting by Concepts - eine Buchbesprechung". Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 19 (4): 216. doi: 10.1515/dmvm-2011-0090 . S2CID   177386607.
    • Weinhold, Marcia Weller (November 2012). "For Your Information – November 2012". The Mathematics Teacher. 106 (4): 318. doi:10.5951/mathteacher.106.4.0318. JSTOR   10.5951/mathteacher.106.4.0318.
14. Reviews of Making Mathematics with Needlework:
    • Atherley, Kate (Spring 2009). "Review". Cool stuff!. Knitty .
    • Cross, Alison (February 2008). "Review" (PDF). The London Mathematical Society Newsletter. 367: 28.
    • Fisher, Gwen (June 2008). "Book Reviews: Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects". Journal of Mathematics and the Arts . 2 (2): 101–103. doi:10.1080/17513470802222827. S2CID   121469834.
    • Fortune, Mary (July 2010). "Making mathematics with needlework, Sarah-Marie Belcastro and Carolyn Yackel (eds). Pp. 184. £18.50. 2008. ISBN 978-1-56881-331-8 (A. K. Peters)". The Mathematical Gazette . 94 (530): 378–379. doi: 10.1017/s0025557200007014 . JSTOR   25759714. S2CID   193323181.
    • Goetting, Mary (November 2008). "Review: Making Mathematics with Needlework by Sarah-Marie Belcastro, Carolyn Yackel Review by: Mary Goetting". The Mathematics Teacher . 102 (4): 319. JSTOR   20876356.
    • Hsu, Pao-Sheng (January–February 2010). "Review". AWM Newsletter. 40 (1). Association for Women in Mathematics: 20–23.
    • Peeva, Ketty. "Belcastro, Sarah-Marie (ed.); Yackel, Carolyn (ed.) Making mathematics with needlework. Ten papers and ten projects. (English)". zbMATH . Zbl   1142.00003.
    • Phillips, Anna Lena (2008). "Picking up stitches". American Scientist . 96 (3): 259. doi:10.1511/2008.71.3591.
    • Sipics, Michelle (December 2007). "Math in a material world". SIAM News .

External links

• Official home page
• Sarah-marie belcastro publications indexed by Google Scholar