
Assistant ProfessorMathematics
Pearce Hall 221
989-774-2893
s.cooper@cmich.edu
Personal Web Page
Education- Ph.D., Queen's University, Ontario, Canada, 2005
- M.S., Queen's University, Ontario, Canada, 2000
- B.S., University of Regina, Regina, Canada, 1998
Affiliations- American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
- Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS)
- Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
- Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)
Honors and Awards- Early Career Grant, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Central Michigan University, "Algebraic and Combinatoric Invariants of Fat Points," 2012-2015.
- NSF, NSA and PIMS Conference Awards, "Connections Between Algebra and Geometry," 2011-2012.
- NSF Conference Award, "KUMUNU 2011."
- U.S. Junior Oberwolfach Fellow, 2010.
- Honorable Mention, Outstanding Postdoc Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2010.
- NSF Conference Award, "KUMUNU 2009."
- Parents Association Award for Recognition for Contributions to Students, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008.
- Golden Apple Teaching Award, Engineering Society, Queen's University, 2005.
- 1st Year Applied Science Teaching and Learning Award, Queen's University, 2005.
- AWM-NSF Travel Grant, "Computing Algebraic Invariants of Fat Points via Reduction," 2009.
- AWM-NSF Mentoring Travel Grant, "Hilbert Functions of Special Fat Points," 2007.
Professional InterestsAlgebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra
Teaching AreasAlgebra and Geometry
Recent Publications and PresentationsPlease
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