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Hello,

a bit about me:

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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 currently the Genevieve & Thatcher Atkin Junior Professor in Mathematics at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas! Here's my CV.

Email me at sawyern@southwestern.edu!

TEACHING

In the 2024/2025 academic year, I'm teaching Intro Stats, Algebraic Structures, Real Analysis, and a First Year Seminar on Board Games. I'm on sabbatical in the Spring!

In the past, I have

  • mentored a student on their Honors Thesis in translation surfaces

  • helped to create material and plan a new calculus sequence at Wesleyan

  • taught calculus, statistics, real analysis, and topology 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

 

See details in my CV

TEACHING

RESEARCH

My research is in dynamics and geometry. I'm currently thinking a lot about marked length spectrum rigidity and thermodynamic formalism.

Recent and Upcoming talks: UT Austin Topology Seminar (April '24), Mid-Atlantic Math Alliance Keynote (April '24), and Modern Mathematics Workshop (October '24)

Big Ideas In Dynamics: An AIM Research Community for Graduate Students in Dynamics is launched in February 2023! We have a second semester starting September 2023! It's co-organized by Benjamin Call and myself. It focuses on collaborative learning among graduate students in dynamical systems, specifically smooth dynamics, ergodic theory, and homogeneous dynamics. We hope to build connections across institutions, and strengthen the reading, research, and collaboration skills of current and recent graduate students.

RESEARCH
SERVICE & ACTIVITIES
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SERVICE & ACTIVITIES

Find more details on service and activites on this page!

Co-organizer, Big Ideas in Dynamics and Geometry -A hybrid conference

September 2024

Member, AIM Human Resources Board

Fall 2023 - Present

Co-organizer, Big Ideas in Dynamics: An AIM Research Community

Spring 2023 - Present

Mentor, Roots of Unity

June 2024

Co-organizer, A Word Problem: the hows and whys of math communication

A special session at Science Writers

October 2023

Fellow, Project NExT

2021-2022

Member, National Association of Mathematicians Publicity and Publication Committee

August 2019 - October 2021

Co-organizer, Black in Math Week

November 2020

Cohost, #BlackInMathWeek, an episode of the podcast Relatively Prime

November 2020

Co-organizer, Midwest Dynamical Systems Early Career Conference

November 2020

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