Adriana Salerno

Address: Department of Mathematics
UT Austin, Austin, TX 78712
Phone: (512) 475-8595
Office: RLM 11.154
Email: asalerno@math.utexas.edu

ABOUT ME

I am originally from Caracas, Venezuela. I went to school there and graduated with a Licenciatura en Matematicas from the Universidad Simon Bolivar in July 2001. I moved to Austin in 2002 to start my PhD in Mathematics.

TEACHING

Summer 2008: M505G: Elementary Functions and Coordinate Geometry. NOTE: The class starts on June 16th.

RESEARCH

My undergrad advisor was Pedro Berrizbeitia and my senior seminar talk was on the Eisenstein Reciprocity Law.
My graduate research advisor is Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas . I am working on my thesis now, and it involves studying hypergeometric sums and their usefulness in counting points on some varieties.
Here is a copy of my CV , with a detailed list of the talks I have given and conferences I have participated in.

MEDIA

AAAS-AMS Mass Media Fellowship

This past summer I got a AAAS Mass Media Fellowship, which was funded by the American Mathematical Society. It was a great to spend a summer at the Voice of America writing science news. I will soon put up mp3s for the stories I wrote (and read) during my internship.

Click here to read an article I wrote for the February 2008 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society about my experience at the VOA.

(NOTE: I'm new at this html stuff, and people have commented they can't look at my notices article... You can see the February edition of the Notices by going here and then downloading it from there...)

AMS Joint Math Meetings Blog

The AMS invited me to come to the 2008 Joint Mathematics Meetings, which were held from January 6-9 in San Diego, California, to write a blog about my experience in the event. You can read it and see pictures that I and other people took by going here .

Math Digest

Since February I've been contributing to the AMS Math Digest, in which the past month's most prominent articles about math are summarized.

OUTREACH

Distinguished Women in Mathematics Lecture Series

Together with Andrea Young and Orit Davidovich and the support of Karen Uhlenbeck and Bill Beckner, we've started a lecture series/workshop in which we invite well-established female mathematicians to give a colloquium talk. For more details on the program schedule and the goals, go here.

Saturday Morning Math Group and Austin Math Circle

I was the coordinator of this program in 2007, and I'm still a big fan and frequent volunteer (and it takes something really special to get me out of bed early on a Saturday Morning). Go here for more information.

RADIO

I have been volunteering at KVRX (91.7FM), the UT student-run radio station, since the summer of 2004. I have had a music show ever since that usually involves new music. The one I have now is called the Hitless Hit List, it's on Friday nights from 8 to 9 pm and in it I count down the Top Ten most played albums of the week.

I also have "science talk show" at KVRX with my friend Chelsea, which is on Monday nights from 7 to 7:30pm. It is called She Blinded Me With Science and in it we talk about science news, upcoming "sciency" events and we interview very intersting people about their work and research. Click here if you want to know more about the show.

OTHER

Now for some more fun stuff. I have been interested in many things besides math for a really long time. I was in a theater troup in college called Amarillo #5, and acted in several plays and directed Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" in 2000.

This is a great XKCD comic

As can be inferred, I'm a big fan of math and a bunch of other things. Here are a couple of "personality" quizzes I've taken related to some of these interests.

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Frank Warner's Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups.

I give a clear, detailed, and careful development of the basic facts on manifold theory and Lie Groups. I include differentiable manifolds, tensors and differentiable forms. Lie groups and homogenous spaces, integration on manifolds, and in addition provide a proof of the de Rham theorem via sheaf cohomology theory, and develop the local theory of elliptic operators culminating in a proof of the Hodge theorem. Those interested in any of the diverse areas of mathematics requiring the notion of a differentiable manifold will find me extremely useful.

Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test

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Disclaimer: I've never been addicted to drugs (does Diet Coke count?), fallen in love with a blonde Australian or been in a British rock band...