About me: I am a second year graduate student at the University of Minnesota. My advisor is Vic Reiner. I did my undergrad at Reed College. After that, I spent a year at Smith College's Post-Baccalaureate Program for women in mathematics.

I am currently supported by a three-year UMN College of Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Beginning Fall 2019, I will be supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Contact: Email me at braun622 "at" umn.edu. You can also find me at Vincent Hall, office 556.

Organizing:

This year, I am co-organizing the Student Combinatorics and Algebra Seminar with Esther Banaian. We meet every Thursday at 4:40pm in Vincent 570. Please contact me if you are interested in speaking.

I co-run Math Club with Montie Avery. We are always interested in finding speakers to give talks that are accessible to undergraduates!

I am a founding member of CAUSE (Council for the Advancement of Underrepresented Scietists and Engineers). We host events for underrepresented minority graduate students and post-docs throughout the semester. Email cause@umn.edu to sign up for our mailing list!

I am helping to organize this year's Mathematics Project at Minnesota, a four-day workshop in January for UMN undergraduates that come from groups traditionally underrepresented in mathematics.

Upcoming Travel:

May 2019: Presenting a poster at Algecom XVII at Loyola University Chicago

July 2019: Presenting a poster at FPSAC in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

September 2019: Speaking at the AMS Fall Sectional meeting in Madison, WI at a special session on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry

Recent Past Travel:

In April 2019 I spoke at the AMS Sectional Meeting at University of Connecticut in Hartford, CT at the special session on Chip-firing and Divisor Theory.

Also in April 2019, I spoke at the CAGE Seminar in Philadephia, PA. and at Smith College Mathematics Colloqium in Northampton, MA.

In October 2018, I spoke at the AMS Sectional Meeting at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI at the special session on Combinatorics in Algebra and Algebraic Geometry.

In July/August 2018, I taught a course in logical reason through BEAM (Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics) in New York City.

In June/July 2018, I attended FPSAC at Dartmouth and a Summer School on Lie Theory at UGA in Athens, GA.

In April 2018, I spoke at USTARS (Underrepresented Students in Topoloy and Algebra Research Symposium) at Reed College in Portland, OR.