Department of Mathematics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Featured Undergraduate Alumni
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Rachel earned a Masters in Financial Mathematics from Stanford University. She is currently
a portfolio manager at Barclays Global Investors in the Institutional Equity Indexing group, where she is
primarily involved in managing international equity funds for developed markets. Prior to this, Rachel was a
product strategist and portfolio manager within BGI's US Active Fixed Income group where she focused on
building out BGI's Liability Driven Investment capabilities within the US.
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She finished a PhD in Algebraic Topology under the direction of Professor Nitya Kitchloo in 2008. She now teaches at Mills College in
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Nicole earned a Masters in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2003. Until recently she was an options trader for Peak6. She has since started a nonprofit to give out
scholarships to Chicago Public School kids who are economically disadvantaged: www.bettertomorrowfund.org. In the fall of 2008 she began law school, ultimately
hoping to focus on human rights.
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Anais received a Masters in Education as well as completing the Single Subject Teaching Credential program at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education in 2006. She now teaches mathematics at
Santa Barbara Junior High School.
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Keith won the Frances M. Colville and Terry E. Dearborn Memorial Award in 2001. He is currently in the Physics PhD program at UC Santa Barbara. He is also a member of the String Theory group, and already has four papers at
arXiv.
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Jeff earned the UCSB Chancellors Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in 2006. He is
currently in the PhD Program in Mathematics at Stanford University. His preprints can be found on the UCSB Mathematics
Preprint Server
(item 2005-11), and on the arXiv.
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Westley received his MS in Mathematical Finance from New York University. He spent a period working as a Math Educator at Assessment Technology, a small educational software development company, and teaching at Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson. Wes has now recently accepted a job at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson as a Simulation Specialist.
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Kim won the UCSB Chancellors Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in 2004, as well as the
AWM Alice T Schafer prize.
Her paper ‘Quadratic reciprocity in a finite group’ (joint with W. Duke) appeared in the March 2005 issue of the American Mathematical Monthly. That paper as well as the preprint ‘Bounds on discriminants with one class per genus can be found on the arXiv
(under her maiden name Spears.)
A profile of Kim and her research experience as an undergraduate in the UC LEADS program appeared in the August/September 2004 issue of
MAA's Focus magazine.
Kim was also awarded the Donald D Harrington Fellowship to study in the PhD program at UT Austin. She is now studying number theory under the direction of Professor Fernando Rodriguez Villegas.
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After graduation, Corrine joined the Peace Corps, where she was first sent to Macedonia, evacuated due to the civil war there, and then reassigned to the island nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. The UC Davis student newspaper published an article about her
experiences.
Corrine earned both an MA in Mathematics and a Master of Arts in Teaching Mathematics (MAT) at UC Davis. She recently accepted a full-time
tenure track position at Solano Community College in Fairfield, CA. |
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Michelle is currently a graduate student in the Masters Program in Applied Mathematics at SDSU.
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Carrie enrolled in a Masters degree program at UCLA, where she studied Aeronautical Engineering (Systems and Control). |
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Russell is currently in the PhD program in mathematics at UT Austin. He is studying nonlinear and stochastic PDE under the direction of Professor Panagiotis Souganidis. He and Kim Hopkins recently received the Frank Gerth Teaching Excellence award.
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Zach was a Regents-VIGRE Graduate Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he earned his PhD in
algebraic geometry under the direction of Professor Robert Lazarsfeld in 2005. He is currently an Assistant Professor
at Southeastern Louisiana University. Three of his preprints can be found on the arXiv.
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After completing a Masters degree at UNT Denton, Andrew entered the PhD program in Mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, where he is studying analytic number. Andrew is supported by an NSF GK-12 Graduate Fellowship and as a part of this outreach program, he currently works with an algebra class at Campus Middle School for Girls in Urbana, where he is teaching elementary number theory.
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Annalies was the founder of the UCSB Math Club, and received honorable mention for the
AWM Alice T. Schafer prize in 2005.
Annalies is currently in the PhD program at Dartmouth, where she recently recieved an honorable mention for a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
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