Kathleen Grace Kennedy

Welcome to Grace Kennedy's homepage.

This is me last year in the Botanical Gardens in Madrid.

Graduate Student
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Office: South Hall 6432C
Email: kgracekennedy@gmail.com

Education:
The University of the South
Sewanee, TN
BS in Mathematics and French Literature

Université de Picardie
Amiens, France
Masters (M1, M2) in Algebra, Number Theory and Applications

Mathematical Interests and Research: My initial interest started with the braid group and has grown to include other areas of geometric group theory and algebraic topology such as Coxeter Groups, Hecke Algebras, and Temperley-Lieb algebras. While in Amiens, Dr. Digne directed my Masters 1 and 2 papers in these topics.

Here is my Masters 1 paper on Sergiescu's 1993 paper on presentations of the braid group: M1 Paper.
Here is my Masters 2 paper on Tammo tom Dieck's 1998 paper on Temperley-Lieb algebras associated to the root system D: M2 Paper.

Published papers:

• An Optimization Problem with a Surprisingly Simple Solution. American Mathematical Monthly. April 2009, Vol. 116, Number 4. D. Drinen, K. G. Kennedy, W. M. Priestley.
• Elastic Properties and Prime Elements. Results in Mathematics. Dec. 2006, Vol.49, Numbers 3-4. Paul Baginski, Christopher Crutchfield, K. Grace Kennedy, and Matthew Wright.
  Here is the SpringerLink to our Paper.
• Electrochemistry of Ferrocene-Modified Monolayer-Protected Gold Nanoclusters at Reduced Temperatures. Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research. 2004, 4, 145-150, K. Grace Kennedy, Deon T. Miles (Sewanee: The University of the South).

Conference's I've attended :

• Joint Meetings of AMS and MAA, San Antonio, TX, January 12-15 2006. Presented a poster from our Trinity research entitled “Factorization and Elasticity with Applications to Rings of the form K[x;S] and K[[x;S]],” at the Undergraduate Student Poster Session.
• Young Mathematics Conference, Columbus, OH, August 12-14, 2005. Presented a talk entitled “Factorization and Delta Sets in K[x;S],” on our research at Trinity.
• The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, May 16-27, 2005. Attended the Program for Women in Mathematics themed “The Geometry of Groups.”

Private Tutoring : For tutoring assistance, please contact me at kgracekennedy@gmail.com.

Past Teaching :
Summer Session B 2009, TA for Dr. Moore's Math 3C, Differential Equations, MATH 3C SB09
Spring 2009 : TA for Dr. Moore's Math 3C, Differential Equations, MATH 3C S09
Winter 2009, TA for Dr. Grigoryan's Calculus for Social Science, MATH 34A W09
Fall 2008, TA for Dr. Shu's Calculus for Social Science, MATH 34A F08

Here is a Study Guide for the second 3C midterm (updated): A 3C Study Guide.
This is not an exhaustive list. Please let me know if you find any errors.

Here is a Study Guide for the interested 34A student: A 34A Study Guide.
Please let me know if you find any errors.