Megan McCormick Stone
Graduate Student
University of Arizona Department of Mathematics
Graduated December 2017

Contact Information:

A summary of my research, teaching, and outreach activities can be found below. My full CV is located here.

Research At the University of Arizona, I have studied Random Matrix Theory under the supervision of Professor Nick Ercolani. My research focuses on the Hermitian Two-Matrix model and connections to monontone Hurwitz numbers. My dissertation can be found here.

Some numerical simulations illustrating the eigenvalue distributions of the Hermitian one-matrix model and the Hermitian two-matrix model are located here.

I wrote an activity with Guadalupe Lozano for high school students, introducing the main concepts in Random Matrix Theory, which can be found here, and the citation is below.

Stone, M., & Lozano, G. I. (2016). Eigenvalue Explorations: A Learning Progression through High School Number, Quantity, and Statistics Domains.. OnCore: The Online Journal of the Arizona Association of Mathematics Teachers, 67-77.

Teaching

  • Spring 2017: I taught Math 313: Linear Algebra.
  • Fall 2015: I taught Math 125: Calculus I.
  • Summer 2015: I taught Math 111 : Trigonometry, online.
  • Spring 2014: Math 263: Introduction to statistics and biostatistics.
  • Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Summer 2012, 2013, and 2014: I taught Math 112 : College Algebra.
  • Fall 2013, Spring 2013: I taught Math 111 : Trigonometry.
  • Fall 2012: I was the super teaching assistant for Undergraduate Analysis.
  • Spring 2012: I was the super teaching assistant for Introduction to Proof.
  • Spring 2012: I taught Math 105 : Math in a Modern Society.

    Outreach

  • From 2011-2017, I assisted with the University of Arizona's annual Sonia Kovalevsky Day. This event aims to encourage young women to pursue mathematics.
  • From 2012-2016, I organized and led the Tucson Math Circle.
  • In April 2014, I volunteered at the Chess and Science Festival and All-Girls Tournament, led by Angelina Belakovskaia, three time U.S. women's chess champion. Check out more recent festivals here.
  • From 2011-2013, I volunteered with the Arizona Mathematics Road Show.

    Links

  • Check out the National Museum of Mathematics! MoMath.
  • The always useful Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: OEIS.