Biography:Sarah-Marie Belcastro

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Short description: American mathematician and book author

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 Bryn Mawr's residential summer program MathILy.[3] 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]

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]

Selected publications

Books

Journal papers

References

  1. Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 "Mathematics prize goes to University of Chicago's Hannah Alpert". UChicago News. November 18, 2009. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/mathematics-prize-goes-university-chicagos-hannah-alpert. "advisers include sarah-marie belcastro (lowercase is the proper spelling of her name)" 
  2. Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 AoPS Online Art of Problem Solving School
  3. Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 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". Newsletter of the Northeastern Section of the MAA 23 (2): 16–18. Fall 2001. http://sections.maa.org/northeastern/newsletter/Fall2001.pdf. "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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