Hello,

a bit about me:

I'm Noelle, a 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've accepted a position at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas! Here's my CV.

Sawyer_cv 2019-10 blog.pdf

TEACHING

In the spring 2020 semester, I was the TA for a discrete math class.

I was also on the directed reading program committee at Wesleyan. This semester, we're implementing a few new things, such as having students self report the time they spend as well as adding more opportunities for students to provide feedback.

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

helped to create material and plan a new calculus sequence at Wesleyan
taught calculus courses
been a teaching assistant for various Wesleyan math courses
taught a seventh grade math class for several summers
been the TA for a math course run by the Wesleyan Center for Prison Education
been the head supplemental instruction leader at Vassar College

See details in my CV

Sawyer_cv(Updated October 9th, 2018).pdf

RESEARCH

My research is in dynamics and geometry. I'm currently thinking a lot about marked length spectrum rigidity results. I talk a little bit about some of the settings and tools I use in blog posts.

Since there's a literal pandemic, all my academic travel has been postponed or cancelled.

Send me an email if you'd like to virtually talk about math!

I gave a virtual talk in April on my thesis work at GOATS. This is a recording of it, if you're interested.

I'm working on a project with Ben Call, Dave Constantine, Alena Erchenko, and Grace Work. The project came out of an AIM workshop on equilibrium

states for dynamics arising from geometry that we attended.

ON MY BOOKSTAND

K. Burns, V. Climenhaga, T. Fisher, and D. Thompson. Unique equilibrium states for geodesic flows in nonpositive curvature.

C. Guillarmou, G. Knieper, and T Lefeuvre. Geodesic stretch, pressure metric and marked length spectrum rigidity.

Howard Masur. Ergodic theory of translation surfaces.

D, Constantine, J-F LaFont, and D. Thompson. Strong symbolic dynamics for geodesic flow on CAT(-1) spaces and other metric Anosov flows.

SERVICE & ACTIVITIES

Editorial Board, National Association of Mathematicians Newsletter,

August 2019 - Present

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

Member, MAD Pages Editorial Board, National Association of Mathematicians,

June 2018 - January 2019

Panelist, Graduate Life After Vassar by LAVA and AWM, Vassar College,

September 2018

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.

I'm passionate about finding more ways to make sure that underrepresented students are welcomed and supported on their math journey. If you have ideas or would like to work on something together, please contact me.

Noelle Sawyer

Math-ing. Teaching. Baking.