Name Erica Flapan | Role Mathematician | |
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Education University of Wisconsin-Madison Books When topology meets chemistry | ||
Erica Flapan: "An Introduction to Spatial Graph Theory" at MAA MathFest 2017
Erica Flapan (9/18/18): Topological and geometric symmetries of molecular structures
Erica Flapan (born August 14, 1956) is an American mathematician, the Lingurn H. Burkhead Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College.
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- Erica Flapan An Introduction to Spatial Graph Theory at MAA MathFest 2017
- Erica Flapan 91818 Topological and geometric symmetries of molecular structures
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Flapan did her undergraduate studies at Hamilton College (New York), graduating in 1977, and went on to graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning a Ph.D. in 1983 under the supervision of Daniel McMillan. After postdoctoral studies at Rice University and the University of California, Santa Barbara she joined the Pomona faculty in 1986. Flapan's research is in low-dimensional topology and knot theory.
In 2011, Flapan was one of three winners of the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, from the Mathematical Association of America. In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and in the same year as part of the bicentennial of Hamilton College was honored with a Hamilton Alumni Achievement Medal.
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She has published numerous papers, as well as worked on four books.