Math-ing. Teaching. Baking.
Hello,
a bit about me:
I'm Noelle, a Bahamian mathematician. My main areas of research are dynamics and geometry. My advisor was David Constantine at Wesleyan University. When I'm not doing math, chances are that you'll find me baking, reading, or dreaming up new things to try when I'm teaching.
I'm an assistant professor at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas! Here's my CV.
Email me at sawyern@southwestern.edu or using the contact form below!
TEACHING
In the 2021/2022 academic year, I'm teaching Modern Calculus I and Intro Stats.
I was also on the directed reading program committee at Wesleyan. Fall 2018 was the first semester of the directed reading program at Wesleyan. I wrote some thoughts about it here. In spring 2019, I worked with a student. We did an introductory survey of discrete geometry. There are more details on what we talked about here.
In the past, I have
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helped to create material and plan a new calculus sequence at Wesleyan
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taught calculus courses
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been a teaching assistant for various Wesleyan math courses
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taught a seventh grade math class for several summers
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been the TA for a math course run by the Wesleyan Center for Prison Education
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been the head supplemental instruction leader at Vassar College
See details in my CV
RESEARCH
My research is in dynamics and geometry. I'm currently thinking a lot about marked length spectrum rigidity, thermodynamic formalism, and boundary action rigidity.
Recent Upcoming talks: Wake Forest Colloquium November 2021; TCNJ Colloquium March 2022
I gave a virtual talk in April 2020 on my thesis work at GOATS. I also gave a talk on a cool dynamical property in July 2020 at Talk Math with Your Friends. Both of the videos are below!
I also co-organized the Midwest Dynamical Systems Early Career Conference on Nov 14th, 2020! We have posted the
recordings of talks. We also had a virtual poster session, with both posters and short videos!
SERVICE & ACTIVITIES
Find more details on service and activites on this page!
Member, National Association of Mathematicians Publicity and Publication Committee
August 2019 - Present
Coorganizer, Black in Math Week
November 2020
Cohost, #BlackInMathWeek, an episode of the podcast Relatively Prime
November 2020
Coorganizer, Midwest Dynamical Systems Early Career Conference
November 2020
Vice President, AWM Grad Student Chapter, Wesleyan University
September 2018 - May 2020
Co-organizer, Graduate Student Seminar, Wesleyan University
January 2019 - December 2019
Vice President, AMS Grad Student Chapter, Wesleyan University
September 2017 - July 2019
In the 2018/2019 academic year, I worked on the pilot of Wesleyan's Directed Reading Program. Each grad student involved is worked one-on-one with an undergraduate student in the style of a reading course. If you would like to learn more about DRP, the website for the DRP network is here, with Wesleyan's DRP website here.
